I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a captain of industry (= someone who runs a large company and has a lot of influence )
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He rose to be a great captain of industry.
a cricket captain (= the leader of a cricket team )
captain a team (= be the captain of a team )
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James captained his school team from the age of eleven.
group captain
sea captain
the team captain
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The cup was presented to the team captain.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
team
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Payne, the team captain and a defensive end, earned all-SEC honors and won the Outstanding Senior Athlete Award.
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A team captain , Gumina had earned a reputation for stiff defense, clutch play.
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The team captains also collect funds raised by the team and distribute the prizes earned by the walkers.
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The time commitment expected of team captains is six to eight hours spread over eight weeks.
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Increasingly it is Sal acting as team captain even though Jess holds that title.
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They would argue strenuously in their group and then the team captain would report what the group had come up with.
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Center Steve Yzerman surpassed the Red Wings' team record length of term as team captain .
young
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Burton played the anguished but heroic young captain who would not betray the revolutionary leader despite the systematic slaughter of six hostages.
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A young captain emerged from the farmhouse.
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I gave a young army captain a lift into Budapest from Györ.
■ NOUN
army
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His work was interrupted by World War I service as an Army captain .
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He had some money saved and wanted the Army captain to look after it for Jeannie.
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The army captain pulled me abruptly to one side off the path.
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She married an Army captain when she was 63.
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But the drug mafia also has infiltrated other law-enforcement agencies, the army captain alleged.
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He shared an off base house in Bad Nauheim with another army captain called Rod.
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One army captain , one lieutenant and two majors also are being investigated in these cases.
cricket
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He was a former cricket captain of the Royal Bangkok Sports Club.
cup
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Golfweb. com got 1, 079 answers when it asked users who should be the next Ryder Cup captain .
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His win will probably not be greeted with great joy by Torrance, who is the Ryder Cup captain .
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Ryder Cup captain Bernard Gallacher, on a rare playing excursion, showed he can still fight with the best.
precinct
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I got fifty-nine precinct captains and they all got assistants, and they all got good jobs.
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Service and favors, the staples of the precinct captain and his ward boss.
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Daley leaned heavily on his precinct captains , charging Kennelly with inactivity.
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Some policemen worked as precinct captains .
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More than six hundred polling-place workers and precinct captains were brought to trial.
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Some precinct captains have had more jobs than they can remember.
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Then later I went to another ward as a Democratic precinct captain , where they were having a tough election.
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Out in the neighborhoods his precinct captains are reporting to the ward committeemen, and they in turn are reporting to him.
sea
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The engineer differs from the trader much as the general differs from the sea captain .
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My father was a sea captain , a pilot in the Suez Canal.
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The sea captain was led down from the wharf to the beach, to stand on the platform beneath the gallows beam.
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He tested them carefully over the next several years, sending them off with cooperative sea captains .
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It was the old sea captain , in whose house Nils had billeted us, who told us.
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And it debunked and later destroyed the reputation of a great sea captain , a good friend of my father.
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To this end the sea captains contributed considerably.
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They stood proud as sea captains and looked directly into my eyes, laughing.
■ VERB
become
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Pugwash was going to become a fully animated captain with a fully animated ship and crew.
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He had expected to become a captain , a company commander, because of his wisdom and age.
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In 1952, his best season when he took 75 wickets, Surridge became captain .
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I become a captain for Eastern.
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That is why when Ian Greig became captain of Surrey I knew the county would flourish.
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After the Great War he became our captain .
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He went on to become a senior captain with an international airline.
lead
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Longfellows captain Billy McKibben led by example as his team got home 7-2 against the Strikers.
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The sea captain was led down from the wharf to the beach, to stand on the platform beneath the gallows beam.
play
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I accepted the invitation to occupy the right-hand seat and play the role of captain .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be made up to captain/manager etc
make sb captain/leader etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Shauna's the captain of the volleyball team.
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Shelley's the girls' team captain this year.
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The captain must have given his team quite a talking-to at half time.
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Who's the captain of England?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Eventually the captain turned off the seat belt sign.
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I have considered only those Tests in which both have appeared together, when one has been captain .
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I say, I am the captain on horse back.
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It took them five overs to score their first run and they were only saved from disaster by captain Allan Lamb.
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Nicholas Helias, administrative captain at police headquarters in Concord.
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We played like a Little League team today, and I was the captain of that team.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
side
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David Beckham captained the side and played in a central midfield role.
team
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The youngster never enjoyed school but captained the football team , preferring sport to academic lessons.
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Jane, who captained the school lacrosse team , was a complete contrast to Sarah.
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Once, just once, I captained the school team .
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How does the less drastic task of captaining a cricket team compare?
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It's an honourable job to captain the A team .
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Jimmy Kirkwood will again captain the team with Raymond Geddis vice-captain.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The Americans, captained by Arthur Ashe, won the Davis Cup.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A lot of them captained their own ships at first, and then they owned like more ships.
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Jane, who captained the school lacrosse team, was a complete contrast to Sarah.
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The cheerleaders, captained by Karen Wardie, wore tight sweaters with an H stitched on the front.
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The youngster never enjoyed school but captained the football team, preferring sport to academic lessons.
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They will be captained by their talented flanker, Bramall.