I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an entry/exit visa
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All foreigners need an entry visa.
an exit poll (= when people are asked how they have just voted )
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The exit polls said that 46 percent of women had voted for Obama.
exit poll
exit strategy
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The President convinced people that he had a workable exit strategy to free his forces from the conflict.
fire exit
the entry/exit wound (= where a bullet enters or leaves someone’s body )
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The exit wound was only slightly larger than the entry wound.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
early
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That infuriated the Roma stars and set the scene for a crazy last 10 minutes which culminated in Tommasi's early exit .
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It was tough to watch. 4: 04 p. m.: Northwest faces an early exit in the double-elimination tourney.
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Poor health and disability are both consistently associated with early exit from the labour market.
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International evidence indicates that an early exit is not confined to declining industries alone.
quick
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The only fairly quick exit from here is feet first.
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And he had been one of the lucky ones who got a quick exit card.
■ NOUN
door
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I only wish that some one had opened the exit door before I passed through it.
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Some right-wingers back then tried to lock the exit doors on bad marriages by making divorce much harder to get.
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Now the main lights were on, the ruffled gold curtains closed across the screen, the exit doors wedged open.
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The cart made one last turn, away from the exit doors .
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She ran to the emergency exit door and pushed the bar to open it.
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He flashed his security pass under the eyes of the two armed guards posted beside the exit door .
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The steward opened the exit door when the plane was stationary and dropped the retractable stair ladder.
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As they came through the exit doors , Ricky looked wearily round for an Avis sign.
fire
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But I came out of the stand through the fire exit and I can't get back in.
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They kicked open the door and tossed us out into the snow through the back fire exit .
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Howard Dickson's body had been discovered by a doorman in a nightclub fire exit at a little after 2.00 a.m. that morning.
point
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Entrance and exit point are usually separate.
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Don't forget to include a window, entrance and exit points and a door to the rear storage area.
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A suitable exit point is at School Brae to reach Gamekeepers Road.
poll
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But then, nemesis: the exit poll , the Basildon result.
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My guy at Channel 3 saw their exit polls .
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The Democrats' exit polls gave a 60 percent majority for Clinton - 321 electoral votes.
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In the election day exit poll , two-thirds of Virginia voters expressed a negative opinion of Robertson.
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The exit polls suggest that people thought about this proposition, and began to accept it.
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National exit polls showed 54 percent of women voted for Clinton and 38 percent chose Dole.
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Early exit polls suggested that he had a 10-point lead over Mr Rudolph Giuliani, a Republican.
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Women preferred Democrats, 55 percent to 43 percent, according to the nationwide exit polls .
route
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Why did genes come together into large vehicles, each with a single genetic exit route ?
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That's my exit route gone.
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Specified entry and exit routes are envisaged for waste entering or leaving the Community.
strategy
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And if the job is to be done properly, there is no exit strategy .
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His chief exit strategy , it appears, is to exit.
visa
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There are also reports of exit visas being refused.
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If I were arrested, that would be the end of every-thing the exit visa , the certificate.
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Unfortunately he tells me his exit visa is time-expired.
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Yet even if he did win a new homeland, there is always the matter of a Soviet exit visa .
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The reissue of an exit visa took two hours and a thousand riyals.
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His Soviet exit visa would eventually expire.
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Would it be a good idea, perhaps, to introduce exit visas ?
■ VERB
block
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Two of them blocked her exit from the car park while the third smashed the car window to grab her handbag.
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People loaded with shopping shoved her aside: she was blocking the exit of a big supermarket.
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We had been coming on to the main road at about five miles an hour when three men had blocked our exit .
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It blocked the exit to the driveway.
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She quickly slipped ahead of the trolley pushers as one of them blocked the exit , manoeuvring his way through.
find
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Thus finding their exit blocked, most of the marchers respected the barriers.
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Once inside, one would go endlessly along its twisting paths without ever finding the exit .
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Reunited with the Doctor, Ian is trying to find another exit from the cave along a narrow ledge above a chasm.
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He found one near the exit where the checkout girl was just opening up and Mum wheeled her trolley into the space.
make
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He made for the side exit , away from the man.
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All he wanted to do was make his exit .
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Unafraid, he plucked the heart and made his exit .
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He had said so before making his exit from the Benson &038; Hedges, where he shot 82-82.
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Ian Wright also had food for thought as he made a hasty exit from Arsenal's demoralised dressing room.
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Instead, he picked up the questionnaire and made an abrupt exit with-out saying a word.
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When it became clear that he had nothing to tell me, I made my exit in the face of dismissive politeness.
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Six judges were photographed making their exits .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
block sb's way/path/exit/escape etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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an emergency exit
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Take the 14th Street exit and then turn right.
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There are two exits at the back of the plane.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He threw his wife Sheila out of an emergency exit before leaping into the darkness after her seconds before the explosion.
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He was no hero: his final exit was ignominious.
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He was whisked away as his audience bolted for the exits.
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I sneaked into the auditorium through the exit at the north corridor and nestled in about half way down the aisle.
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Then, holding her own breath and moving stealthily on tiptoe, she began to ease her way towards the exit .
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We took the Neche-Pembina exit into a truck stop.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
program
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Before you exit from the program .
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Close the document and exit the program .
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Type in a few sentences and save the result, then exit your program .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But it seems Stephanopoulos, exiting quickly to Punditland, left some items behind.
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But to change the text, you had to exit that mode, using a specific command, and enter edit mode.
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Press F7 N Y to exit WordPerfect.
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Take I-10 east, exiting south on State Route 90.
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That is, in spite of revising their reservation wages upwards, they are exiting faster in the second period than in the first period.
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Trying to exit the airfield after the show ended resulted in large queues of vehicles all trying to get out of one gate.
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William exits fairly despondent and heads for the door.