I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a dress designer (= someone whose job is designing women’s clothes )
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She’s a former royal dress designer.
a fashion designer
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Her favourite fashion designers include Giorgio Armani and Gianfranco Ferre.
a software developer/engineer/designer
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her job as a software developer
designer baby
designer clothes (= made by a well-known designer )
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She spends hundreds of pounds on designer clothes.
designer clothing (= made by a well-known designer )
designer drug
designer drugs (= produced artificially from chemicals )
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Designer drugs are highly addictive and can have unpredictable side effects.
designer wear
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I can’t afford designer wear.
interior designer
web designer
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
chief
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The new bike's unique styling is the work of Ducati's chief designer Pierre Terblanche.
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Jim Redding, my chief mechanical designer , and I followed the lorry all the way to make sure nothing went amiss.
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According to Ilyushin chief designer I.Y. Katyrev performance targets include a cruising speed of 113-127 knots and a with-reserves range of 770 miles.
good
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Computer-aided design may make a good designer out of a sloppy one.
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I need Rouben TerArutunian and the best young designers .
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He wondered if he'd have made a good interior designer .
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To do anything interesting with the software a good programmer and designer will be needed.
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Government will commission the best designers , artists and architects, for instance, to help communities transform run-down city centres.
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There's so much going for the self-contained freestanding format that we've put our best designers to work on our range.
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It's not good us training designers who then just sit and work in a creative vacuum.
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If the new range do as well Doc Martens will surely be established as Britain's best known designer label.
graphic
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Second prize went to graphic designer Beverley Dowson, 22, of Bishop Auckland.
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But 230 pounds was life-threatening for a 5-foot-1-inch graphic designer named Rachel Kochackis.
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Visual communication is not the exclusive domain of the graphic designer or the advertising executive.
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The questionnaire itself will be made more user-friendly, said Sylvia Harris, a census consultant and graphic designer at Yale University.
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Ballard, 29, a graphic designer from Stockbridge, Edinburgh.
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Melinda Bergman Burgener is a free-lance writer and graphic designer who lives in San Francisco.
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She then undertook a geographical and creative pilgrimage, working as an art instructor, graphic designer and book illustrator.
great
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The greatest designers can sway with the prevailing mood of the moment, but remain fundamentally true to their own spirit.
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He was also one of the greatest aircraft designers of all time.
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This in itself is a great help to designers even before any analysis of their new product is undertaken.
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I do not imply some teleological goal-seeking or the existence of a great designer with an aim in mind.
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There's a much, much larger range of great designer clothes over here because it's just a bigger population.
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The characteristic styles of great architects and designers may be seen clearly reflected - Chippendale, Sheraton, Adam and Hepplewhite.
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John Barnard, the world's greatest designer , has been recruited by new team mastermind Harvey Postlethwaite.
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I became a house model for the great designer Jean Muir and it was a wonderful foundation because she was meticulous.
industrial
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He set up as a freelance industrial designer making furniture from a basement studio in 1952.
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This rough-and-ready reasoning is upside-down to the slow, thorough, in-control approach most industrial designers bring to complex machinery.
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He became arguably the first industrial designer , working in ceramic, glass, metal, furniture, wallpapers, and textiles.
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The competitive pressures of the market place have restrained industrial designers from the austerities that afflicted architects.
interior
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He wondered if he'd have made a good interior designer .
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Eighty interior designers had gathered to hear her at the Washington Design Center.
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Add a border or binding down the leading and bottom edges of curtains for a real interior designer touch.
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Both tap the opinions of fashion and interior designers and make predictions several years before the colors hit the market.
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The previous owners, one an interior designer , had renovated the whole place very much to Sue and Reg's taste.
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Few carpet companies exhibit, making it an even more exclusive event for Stoddard Mercia amongst Britain's leading interior designers .
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Happy to co-ordinate with interior designers , architects or contractors.
new
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Curve's new lighting designer , Lawrence, is soon to join the police force.
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Until I can afford a new pair of designer boxer shorts, I will go along with that.
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Shape too has some new imperatives: designers have learnt the vocabulary of active sportswear shapes.
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Robin Fior had left, and a new designer had arrived.
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I need a new designer and you need to find a way out of a considerable financial mess.
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As he did all his life, he also found and encouraged new designers and composers.
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He brought in a new interior designer , Ghislaine Belmont-Laon; her work on these showrooms made her name.
original
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Indeed, even the original bike's designer , Miguel Galluzzi, hasn't been able to significantly improve on it.
professional
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Students learning to be future professional designers will need to think about designing with everyone's needs in mind.
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He had thought that he was good enough to become a professional stage designer , and Dinah had disabused him.
top
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Three top designers were approached at an undisclosed cost.
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My gratitude to the top designers for their wonderful patterns, the Teach-in series and oh so very much more.
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It does help, of course, if one of the world's top designers is behind it all.
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Nowadays, many top designers also produce mass-produced goods which we can buy in the local department store.
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Now, however, it seems that even among the top designers , obsolescence is obsolete.
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For nomination, top designers , leaders in their field, were chosen by professional bodies and organisations.
young
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Now wait a minute - it wouldn't be that young fashion designer , would it?
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I need Rouben TerArutunian and the best young designers .
■ NOUN
clothes
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Her designer clothes were from the pages of a glossy fashion magazine.
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They date and marry stars, dress in designer clothes , and are phenomenally rich and cosmopolitan.
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I do go for designer clothes most of the time, because they last longer and are a far better quality.
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For a start, there's his burgeoning empire in designer clothes .
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Buy less but spend more - not on expensive designer clothes intended for the young, but on well-cut quality clothes.
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There's a much, much larger range of great designer clothes over here because it's just a bigger population.
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His raptures over pretty strangers and their come-hither designer clothes were as over-the-top as his enthusiasm for a new cocktail.
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Television advertising tells them that they must have designer trainers, designer clothes and good stereos.
costume
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At 81 she married costume designer Jean Louis, who died three years ago.
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If forced to examine the movie from that sociological mountaintop, veteran costume designer Ann Roth is right.
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Directors and costume designers , not to mention tech people and assistants, all play a key part.
curriculum
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Design development loop: involves the curriculum designer , program designer and teacher developers.
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This stage involves the curriculum designer , program designer and teacher developers and teacher users, as well as observers.
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It has application to all areas of the curriculum , and must be borne in mind by curriculum designers .
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The program designer needs to be in communication with the curriculum designer, especially at the very beginning of the development.
dress
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Ossie Clark, Sixties dress designer , 51.
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She wants to be a dress designer .
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I also had a meeting with the dress designer for the Palladium show.
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Beginning at 11am, the discussion will be opened by well-known dress designer Joanne Ferguson.
drug
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Rachel, 25, is recovering in Liverpool's Broadgreen Hospital after allegedly being given the designer drug ecstacy at a party.
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The idea of the game is to collect counters known as E's, another name for the designer drug Ecstasy.
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Detectives believe Rachel's drink was spiked with half a tablet of the designer drug at a private party.
fashion
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There was one girl who longed, seemingly in an unrealistic way, to become a fashion designer .
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Since then, fashion designers have learned not to dictate a length.
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Showbiz characters rubbed shoulders with politicians, famous food and wine writers, and fashion designers .
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They say they've enjoyed the transition from farmer to fashion designer .
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Early successes in the drug trade mean that Harry can underwrite Marion's attempts to become a fashion designer .
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Now wait a minute - it wouldn't be that young fashion designer , would it?
garden
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You're a garden designer - a fact brought to my attention just a few weeks ago, if you remember.
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Asprey Chapman Landscapes Anthony de Grey is an enthusiastic and skilled garden designer offering a complete landscape service.
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A garden designer who doesn't wish to look at her garden is of no use to me.
label
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As for clothes, fashion consultant Barbara Thomas decided Norma had the poise and presence to carry off a sophisticated designer label .
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If the new range do as well Doc Martens will surely be established as Britain's best known designer label .
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They are aware that designer labels are no passport to instant glamour and that designers tend to recycle the past anyway.
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They think that all designer label clothes are just expensive rip-offs.
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Not that any amount of designer labels would or could reconcile her to the prospect of meeting Antoinette again.
program
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Design development loop: involves the curriculum designer , program designer and teacher developers.
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This stage involves the curriculum designer , program designer and teacher developers and teacher users, as well as observers.
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The program designer needs to be in communication with the curriculum designer, especially at the very beginning of the development.
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In conjunction with the teacher, examination of all the computer talents is needed by the program designer .
software
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The findings should be of interest to teachers, software designers and developmental psychologists.
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A mode is a current status, a condition. Software designers used them all the time.
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San Francisco writer Jeff Johnson is a software designer .
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Requirement specifiers, software designers and programmers etc.
system
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This has uncovered some interesting findings - for instance the hitherto unknown demand for 3.3V chips from desktop system designers .
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The system designer is therefore left to make a compromise choice of forcing resistance according to the application.
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It will enable embedded systems designers to write applications on personal computers or under Unix.
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He feels that it is crucial that information system designers take account of the different types of corporate organisational structure.
■ VERB
allow
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Video and one-way mirrors allow designers to see how their systems stand up in practice.
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This allows the designer to plan the way in which the user will interact with the program in real time.
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In a friendly atmosphere look around at leisure and allow our experienced designers to give you advice and original ideas.
become
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There was one girl who longed, seemingly in an unrealistic way, to become a fashion designer .
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Wolf meanwhile dreamed of becoming a designer of Soviet planes and trained as an engineer.
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Early successes in the drug trade mean that Harry can underwrite Marion's attempts to become a fashion designer .
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After I divorced Martin, the big blonde tugged strings and he became consultant designer for a detergent manufacturer.
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He had thought that he was good enough to become a professional stage designer , and Dinah had disabused him.
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Over many years Meccano became widely used by designers to demonstrate ideas useful in mechanical research.
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As computers become more powerful, designers will be able to simulate more sophisticated life forms, including people.
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Although Paul is training to become an instrument designer , his sights are now set on an engineering post.
create
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This is another reminder of how little road use was in the minds of the Ducati designers when they created this bike.
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The commission in 1974 asked Halprin, an environmental designer , to create the plan that was eventually approved.
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We asked our designer to create a series of very different looks using Allied furniture, carpets, fabrics and accessories.
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Even then you may consider relying on outside designers to create the masters while your operators simply fill in the gaps.
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Alternatively, you can use the form designer to create your own form from scratch.
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The ten rooms our designer created are only suggestions, of course.
work
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Her background is interior design, and she works as a designer at a furniture store.
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She has worked previously with fashion designers Vivienne Westwood and the late Jean Muir.
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Clearly, the distinction is not always so apparent; sometimes artists work as designers , and vice-versa.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
designer label
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As for clothes, fashion consultant Barbara Thomas decided Norma had the poise and presence to carry off a sophisticated designer label .
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If the new range do as well Doc Martens will surely be established as Britain's best known designer label .
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Not that any amount of designer labels would or could reconcile her to the prospect of meeting Antoinette again.
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Opposite the Cathay, one of the many new fashion emporiums is crammed with shoppers browsing the designer labels .
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They are aware that designer labels are no passport to instant glamour and that designers tend to recycle the past anyway.
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They think that all designer label clothes are just expensive rip-offs.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Designers at Ford say the car's soft shape is supposed to be attractive to women.
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Anyone with experience as a Web page designer can easily get a job.
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I recommend hiring a professional designer .
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The show features clothes by famous fashion designers like Jean-Paul Gaultier.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Design development loop: involves the curriculum designer , program designer and teacher developers.
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Lately, designers are getting more power, perhaps sacrificing a bit of that sweetness, out of single-ended designs.
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Task lighting around the desk is the expected norm in most hotels, and some designers favour floor lamps beside the armchairs.
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The designers showed that they understand her position.
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We asked our designer to create a series of very different looks using Allied furniture, carpets, fabrics and accessories.
II. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
clothes
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They were accused of materialism, wanting designer clothes instead of babies.
jeans
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Instead of a grey flannel suit he now wears a rather improbable pair of designer jeans and a stiffly pressed polo shirt.
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Some worshipers wear designer jeans and expensive, crocodile-skin boots, the uniform of many traffickers.
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Primo recognized one of the men-he had seen him in a designer jeans commercial-doing just what he was doing here: walking.
label
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Opposite the Cathay, one of the many new fashion emporiums is crammed with shoppers browsing the designer labels .
suit
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It's the designer suits and the $ 100 haircuts and the iron-fisted control freaks along the sidelines.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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designer jeans
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Investigating officers hope to seize the car, house and a fine collection of designer jewels at a hearing this spring.
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It's the designer suits and the $ 100 haircuts and the iron-fisted control freaks along the sidelines.
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Primo recognized one of the men-he had seen him in a designer jeans commercial-doing just what he was doing here: walking.
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The scurrying tourists with their Nikons and their designer shopping bags are transformed the instant they enter this muted space.
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They were accused of materialism, wanting designer clothes instead of babies.
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Williams wears the kind of designer tennis dresses that Davenport would be far too self-conscious even to consider putting on.