I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
fringe benefit
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A competitive salary with fringe benefits will be offered.
fringe theatre
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
northern
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We lived in Belleville, New Jersey, a commuter town at the northern fringe of Newark.
outer
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She glanced round, spotting Terry Lewis on the outer fringes of their circle, an expression of chagrin on his face.
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The centre is One, the outer fringe is Six; zones where there used to be neighbourhoods.
urban
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The authors of Conurbation were particularly interesting in their treatment of the urban fringe .
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Land in the urban fringe is also at a premium for recreation, whether for rambling or for sports and recreation grounds.
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Most of the conflicts concerning agriculture and amenity also occur in a particularly acute form on the urban fringe .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the lunatic fringe
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a lunatic fringe of cranks and reactionaries, who probably still believe that the earth is flat
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Crusading journalist William Lloyd Garrison represented the radical fringe .
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The terrorist fringe condemned the decision and threatened to use force.
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Hockey moved from the fringe to the mainstream when it went from a specialty item to a staple.
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I should say, it was the scum fringes of each group, not the majority of decent followers of the game.
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In reality, however, even when the electrons are sent one at a time, the fringes still appear.
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Slowly people are moving away from the marginal fringe .
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Something exploded on the fringe of his vision and sent out jagged streaks of orange flame like cartoon electricity.
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Today, its population has shrunk to only seven known populations on the distant fringes of metropolitan Southern California.
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When she arrived at the edge of the covert, she made her way cautiously along its downhill fringes.
II. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
benefit
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They could deduct wages, but not interest costs, most other taxes or fringe benefits .
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Individuals would not pay taxes on interest or investment income, and businesses could not deduct the cost of fringe benefits .
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Working condition fringe benefits are tax-free.
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What shows up in the statistics as fringe benefits is really a private social welfare payment from the young to the old.
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If a fringe benefit is not excluded from income, then a value has to be placed on it.
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Prepaid plans for legal services are now available to over 2 million households as fringe benefits in union contracts.
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The downsizing of big firms with high wages and good fringe benefits continues at an unrelenting pace.
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Women continue to be denied fringe benefits and wages equivalent to those received by men.
group
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Few attendees doubted that some fringe groups would respond violently.
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Few attendees doubted that some fringe groups would respond violently.
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If you were doing clinical research with a spiritual or religious factor, you were considered fringe .
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Individuals would not pay taxes on interest or investment income, and businesses could not deduct the cost of fringe benefits.
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Prepaid plans for legal services are now available to over 2 million households as fringe benefits in union contracts.
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That means making smaller purchases instead of one big buy and cutting back on fringe items.
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The remaining 5 percent aligned themselves with fringe groups such as the Natural Law, Green and Libertarian parties.
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Working condition fringe benefits are tax-free.
III. verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Emily Groundwater's eyes opened widely, and he saw that they were smoke-grey, fringed by long dark lashes.
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He let his gaze rest upon the awed and silent faces that fringed his passage, but without seeing them.
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The fields here were fringed with rowan trees, their bright red berries clashing horribly with the purple heather of late summer.
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The line formed a two-mile semicircle along the bank of a small creek that was fringed with woods.
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The river was clear and rushing and fringed by trees.