noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
civic
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The mayor and civic dignitaries met us in a blaze of colour at Bow Bridge with the usual greetings and pleasantries.
foreign
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Just one Berlin politician, not even the Bürgermeister, and without any supporting foreign dignitary to pull the crowd.
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That is to do what the Royal Family has always done supremely well, to meet foreign dignitaries as Britain's ambassadors.
local
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Delegates from 165 local committees have been invited to attend as have other local and national dignitaries .
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During the reception, which was followed by dinner and a dance, she was eulogized by local dignitaries .
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Every one, station staff, local dignitaries and even the press looked very smart ... everyone that is, except for me!
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So did cabinet secretaries, members of Congress, two former governors, current state officials, and scores of local dignitaries .
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After a short pause to watch us, she passed on surrounded by the Lord Lieutenant of Dorset and other local dignitaries .
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This involves vehicle and foot patrols, public displays, and meeting local dignitaries as well as visiting places of work and schools.
other
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After a short pause to watch us, she passed on surrounded by the Lord Lieutenant of Dorset and other local dignitaries .
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Beside him sit the other island dignitaries , the representatives of each of the six communities into which the island is divided.
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The 15,000 guests are mainly press and broadcast journalists, investors, tour operators, politicians and other dignitaries and their partners.
■ VERB
visit
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A visiting dignitary on the quiet lonely street.
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They ask visiting businessmen and dignitaries if they have any spare books.
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Him showing visiting dignitaries the squadron of MiG fighters at Entebbe.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Foreign dignitaries from 20 countries were invited to attend.
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Italy's president will be there, with foreign dignitaries including the Prince of Wales.
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Most of the local dignitaries attended the event.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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CI5 took the responsibility for ensuring that no harm came to, or from, those ill-favoured dignitaries.
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Earl Robert kept the two monastic dignitaries one on either side of him, with Hugh at Herluin's other side.
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In the water, Navy SEALs conducted mock attacks near Broadway Pier, where dignitaries watched the ships steam past.
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Kathy was there, and Tony Carbo, and a happy-looking assembly of dignitaries in pin-stripes and starched blue shirts.
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Some Honor Guard members will escort dignitaries at the inauguration and the White House reviewing stand.
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The dignitaries who ride them are scarcely less gorgeously attired.
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They paused a while to let a fleet of barges, packed with city dignitaries, sweep by as stately as swans.