noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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electronic
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The electronic frontier requires its pioneers to be resourceful in defending themselves in the absence of binding rules and regulations.
final
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Exercise and fitness has become the final frontier .
internal
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I am sceptical about the proposition that minority rights can be protected by redrawing internal frontiers .
military
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This tradition persisted even after the dissolution of the military frontier in 1881.
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The northern area from Rijeka to Zadar was incorporated into the military frontier , which was under the control of the Habsburgs.
national
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In practical terms, business across national frontiers may be conducted in several ways.
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Armies would still cross national frontiers and with considerable capacity for doing damage where they fought and trod.
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The output of such small-scale producers will not only be sold on local markets but also across national frontiers .
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The actual bank deposits do not cross national frontiers in the manner that tourists carry foreign bank notes among their holiday belongings.
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Surely the House appreciates that some problems go beyond national frontiers , particularly those affecting pollution and international trade.
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In taxonomic botany, for instance, research is carried out in many institutions world-wide, rather than within national frontiers .
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Some thoughtful articles aim to make connections, perhaps across national and language frontiers , or between disciplines.
new
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The internet revolution has moved east, and Scandinavia is the new frontier .
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He is an example of some one who has become lost or disoriented on the new frontier .
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Before he was incapacitated, Menelik had won recognition for his conquests and acceptance of his new frontiers .
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Something similar may happen soon in the new frontier of cyberspace.
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Two new pieces of frontier work are being pioneered.
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They are the charts of a new frontier , modern-day versions of the maps made before ships circumnavigated the globe.
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The new frontiers were not without their hazards.
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Once again there was a sense of purpose, an aura of new frontiers .
northern
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Part of the northern frontier of the Roman Empire of Hadrian's Wall.
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Some of this money went to pay the states along the northern frontier for lands ceded to the United States.
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The situation was very different on the northern frontier .
southern
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According to one such report Richard's chief concern in the autumn of 1178 was with his southern frontier .
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Lindsey was lost and the Humber restored as Northumbria's southern frontier .
western
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Their most remarkable expression is the earthwork which an eighth- century king of Mercia constructed on his western frontier .
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Andrew Jackson, the first president from the western frontier , was unjustly accused of bigamy and derided as an unschooled ignoramus.
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The frontier post spotted him from the photos we rushed to the western frontier.
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Education i. guardian of ideals Western frontier .
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Henry II's next targets were on his western frontiers .
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To the settler or trapper or cattleman, the western frontier was both promising and dangerous.
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When the country was young, the Western frontier was the Appalachian Mountains.
■ NOUN
area
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This increased the importance of exploration and development projects in frontier areas .
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In frontier areas they are critical to our ability to win access.
control
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These are national quotas and must be removed or harmonised once frontier controls are eliminated.
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Several governments, particularly from the larger states, sought co-operation on immigration and frontier controls and also closer police collaboration.
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Consequently, frontier controls were necessary to ensure that cross-frontier trade in goods adhered to the various national requirements.
post
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The frontier post spotted him from the photos we rushed to the western frontier.
town
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San Vicente del Caguan is a bustling frontier town of 20,000 people.
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Nearly all have stemmed from this small, poor village one mile outside the frontier town of Peshawar.
zone
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So long as frontier zones of the empire remained insecure, the tsar had to eschew an ambitious foreign policy.
■ VERB
cross
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Physically he had been just one millimetre closer to Doreen than ever before, but emotionally he had crossed a frontier .
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Armies would still cross national frontiers and with considerable capacity for doing damage where they fought and trod.
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He ignored the great truth - jokes don't cross frontiers .
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The nature of the underground drainage can give rise to international problems when streams cross under frontiers .
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A Community working for peace - and the planet Pollution crosses frontiers .
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The actual bank deposits do not cross national frontiers in the manner that tourists carry foreign bank notes among their holiday belongings.
push
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Back then entrepreneurs were pushing out the frontiers of trade.
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As for the second one your use of rhyme pushes back the frontiers of english literature.
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Their achievement was in pushing back the frontiers of distance running with world records.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He was questioned by soldiers at a frontier post.
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Many of the cars crossing the frontier were stopped and searched.
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The study of the brain is often described as the next intellectual frontier .
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They settled in Ronco, a picturesque village near the Italian frontier .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All of this transcended the frontiers of control and undermined the employers' ability to manage.
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Every diplomatic effort was made to get him and his army to retire back over the frontier , but without success.
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It marked a return to the general store of frontier days.
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Powell, like the mountain men, was compulsively drawn to the frontier .
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The dethronement of learning is one of the most exciting intellectual frontiers we are now crossing.
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The geographical position of the frontier fluctuated with the fortunes of war.