adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an enviable position (= a situation that other people would like to be in )
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He is in the enviable position of not needing to work.
an enviable reputation (= a good one that others would like to have )
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The company has established an enviable reputation for quality.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
position
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Many believe he is in an enviable position of having to choose between the city giants.
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People - to-day's employees, yesterday's students - have places us in this enviable position .
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The hotel is situated in an enviable position across from the beach.
reputation
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Toyota has an enviable reputation for bulletproof cars, a reputation that could have been built on Camry alone.
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Scientists have gained by this an enviable reputation for truth.
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Today offering traditional service and hospitality the Plough &038; Harrow has established an enviable reputation as one of Birmingham's finest hotels.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Burns is now in the enviable position of being able to make any film he wants.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And to die in one's sleep without distress to oneself or inconvenience to others is an enviable end.
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As the whole, the society is in enviable financial shape.
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His was not an enviable duty.
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Many believe he is in an enviable position of having to choose between the city giants.
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On the face of it, there was an enviable simplicity about Armstrong's own view.
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The evaluators' initial impression was of a school with a fairly traditional outlook but one in which facilities were enviable .
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Toyota has an enviable reputation for bulletproof cars, a reputation that could have been built on Camry alone.
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We maintain an enviable record against schools five and 10 times our size.