I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a ticket office/booth/counter (= a place where you can buy tickets )
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There was a long queue at the ticket office.
bean counter
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Since the bean counters took over the radio station, it’s become a boring place to work.
counter/combat a threat
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We must work together to counter the threat of state terrorism.
Geiger counter
lunch counter
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
available
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Copies of the leaflet are being distributed to members today and will be available at public counters at Headquarters and Chesser House.
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Melatonin, available over the counter , is a hormone produced inside the brain by the pineal gland.
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The remedies in the 200M and 10M potencies will not be available over the counter except in specialist pharmacies.
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Yeast remedies are available over the counter , and a physician can prescribe antibiotics for chlamydia, gonorrhea, and others.
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The completeness of the 1989-90 material is more difficult to evaluate because the drugs in this period were available over the counter .
bargaining
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Would keep it as her final bargaining counter .
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On this basis Polaris, and even Trident, could be retained as at least a bargaining counter .
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Votes can be used as bargaining counters for future needs.
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Even the demand for independence might be advanced as primarily a bargaining counter .
checkout
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While I do the shopping, Miles sits near the checkout counter reading.
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Through the windows, all of the checkout counters appeared to be 10 people deep.
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All nine checkout counters are backed up with huge lines of people pushing loaded carts.
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Anyway, I finally found the right stockings and took them to the checkout counter .
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But Giant shoppers are using an increasing number of coupons generated by scanners at the checkout counter , Scher says.
■ NOUN
bar
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They are often sold in the winter months from small casks kept on bar counters .
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See that fire over there, by the bar counter ?
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Pooley was nearing the end of the bar counter by now and the Swan's doorway was perilously close.
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In front the enemy, to their right the crowds at the bar counter , to their left tables and the wall.
bean
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You have to have the bean counters go through all this.
kitchen
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She leaned against the kitchen counter .
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Ellie moved gingerly between the table and the kitchen counter , buttering toast and pouring cups of tea.
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In London, my kitchen counter is as cluttered as anybody's.
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Wipe kitchen counters after each meal.
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She leaves like four bucks on the kitchen counter - though it's since gone down to three-fifty.
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He had his guest sit at the kitchen counter .
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A second, designed to be installed above a kitchen counter , would be a television and electronic recipe holder.
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Before opening it, he grudgingly used the microwave to heat a cup of cocoa, then sat at the kitchen counter .
lunch
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When we got off to eat I had to lead her by the hand to the lunch counter .
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Perhaps not incidentally, a white demonstrator in 1964 joined black people in a Mississippi lunch counter sit-in.
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I wanted to integrate schools and lunch counters .
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Nothing can compare to the sense of well-being that washed through me at that filthy lunch counter .
program
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Thus we may be able to initiate an instruction fetch from store and increment the program counter in one micro-instruction.
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In order to transfer control to a new sequence of instructions, a new value must be deposited in the program counter .
scintillation
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Free carnitine was converted to C acetyl carnitine and measured in a scintillation counter .
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Beta and gamma emissions can be detected by scintillation counters .
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After vigorous shaking, these were then counted in a Beckman scintillation counter .
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The sensing element of a scintillation counter is a fluor, a substance capable of converting radiation energy to light energy.
ticket
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A descriptive list of the works of art is available at the ticket counters .
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The ticket counter folks refused to assign us a seat, sending us to the gate.
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She got to the bus station, stood up straight and went out to the ticket counter .
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The airline tickets can be delivered by mail, picked up through a travel agent or at airline ticket counter .
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Katherine queued at the ticket counter and proclaimed her destination in a clear voice.
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Delta, for instance, is providing refund forms at ticket counters and through travel agents.
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There were no details about any possible confrontation at the ticket counter .
top
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These objects add instant nostalgia when hung on your kitchen wall or placed in a basket on your counter top .
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There may not be an ideal counter top surface; every material has its benefits and disadvantages.
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He can see Katherine in the kitchen, with its smooth Formica counter tops and fine oak cabinets.
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Fitgerald said the process can also be used on counter tops and table top as well as in store display windows.
■ VERB
buy
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Something you could buy over the counter at a supermarket.
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A synthetic form of melatonin can be bought over-the-counter at health food stores and many pharmacies.
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Hon. Members can buy them over the counter in a chemist's shop.
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One of the simplest means is to buy a tally counter .
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Most of the illegal guns are not being bought over the counter , or stolen.
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I just bought it over the counter .
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Nicotine chewing gum can now be bought over the counter at the chemists.
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There are several effective preparations you can buy over the counter , in the form of pleasant-tasting drinks or tablets.
lean
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She was leaning on the counter with both hands.
leaned
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She leaned against the kitchen counter .
serve
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We kids either had to serve behind the ice-cream counter or wait on the tables.
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Nervously, they festooned the front serving counter with ribbons not believing, quite, that people would come.
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Mary served behind the counter at Bacon's for a few hours per week.
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The women who served behind the counter in their green overalls and caps were non-committal about the quality.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a counter -top appliance
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Careful, you're going to spill it all over the counter .
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the blue counter
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The cashier stood waiting behind the counter .
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The local supermarket has a good deli counter .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After bids and counter bids the Secretary of State referred the Guinness proposal to the Commission for inquiry and report.
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I looked at her across the counter and tried to detect some glimmer of unexplained Highland intuition.
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She was sounding unexpectedly urgent as they approached the empty checkout counter .
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The girl had left the weighing counter .
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The proprietor, Mr John Allan, sat at a counter carefully turning the brittle pages of what seemed an ancient book.
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There's pots to wash and a broom under the counter .
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
argument
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The Minister has failed to counter that argument .
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The Defendants counter argument that this infrastructure information did not constitute a record either was not allowed by the Court.
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The Vendor may then wish to counter this argument and limit the warranty by stating precisely what enquiries it has undertaken.
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There are two obvious moves which could be made to counter this argument .
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In this respect any shifting of corporation tax would counter this argument to tax corporations perse.
attack
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Arsenal have had also apart from the first game, where I doubt coventry went looking to attack , rather than counter attack.
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The teams of volunteers have been formed to counter gay-bashing attacks .
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The hand can be either a clenched fist or an open palm, depending upon how the defender wishes to counter attack .
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The one hand executes the two movements almost simultaneously, leaving the rearguard hand to counter any further direct attack .
charge
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Much of the work of the previous fortnight securing evidence to counter the original charge was suddenly irrelevant.
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Shannon tried to counter her charges .
criticism
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In general, ministers are willing to be flexible to ensure that they can counter criticism arising from immediate public anxieties.
problem
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Such advice did little to counter the practical problems of cost.
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Hard thinking and research may aid us individually, and eventually as a species, to counter some of these problems .
threat
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Both the level of available resources and their deployment are constantly adjusted as necessary to counter the foreseeable threat .
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They countered the threat by inviting only safe theologians - largely Rome-based - to sit on the preparatory commissions.
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Edward's first move was to counter any possible threat to Aquitaine from the south and from the sea.
■ VERB
need
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Obviously they need to be countered and an objective must be set.
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The implicit tax would thus rise and fall precisely as needed to counter speculative pressures.
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Something big and dramatic was needed to counter the lingering impact of the scandal.
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Even less money would be needed to counter river blindness, which is still the scourge of millions.
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What is needed to counter it is the simple reflection that there are some things that every rational person desires and values.
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The tendency of Down's children towards stubbornness and inflexibility needs to be countered from an early age.
try
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Shannon tried to counter her charges.
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This in turn had exerted the upward pressure on bank interest rates which the government was now trying to counter .
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Enemy artillery will probably be better than your own, so try to counter it early on.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Hospitals must offer better salaries to counter the shortage of nurses.
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Rodrigues countered the criticism by saying that the group does a lot of things for the area that go unnoticed.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But Dole countered with a heavily negative response.
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Edward's first move was to counter any possible threat to Aquitaine from the south and from the sea.
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Now, I countered with an offer of $ 850, 000.
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One measure designed to counter this is the introduction this year of just one school-leaving date - the end of June.
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This dual process of introduction is systematically countered by a dual process of elimination.
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Yet they did little to counter the challenge of socialism.
III. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
attack
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They appeared to apologize for their pitiable weaknesses, instead of forming themselves into a counter attack .