noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a funeral ceremony
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Funeral ceremonies have been held since ancient times.
funeral director
funeral expenses (= the cost of arranging a funeral )
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She had a small insurance policy to cover the funeral expenses.
funeral home
funeral/wedding/carnival etc procession
marriage/funeral/christening etc service
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a memorial service for the disaster victims
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
director
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Some funeral directors will assist in do-it-yourself funerals by supplying a simple coffin and dealing with the documentation. 4.
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To show proper respect and consideration for the families and the dead, funeral directors must dress appropriately.
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The Independent Television Commission have now removed the ban on funeral directors .
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To unburden themselves of arranging and directing these tasks, grieving families turn to funeral directors .
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Indeed, this person's role would not have been dissimilar to that undertaken by the present-day funeral director .
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After passing a State board licensing examination, new funeral directors may join the staff of a funeral home.
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It is also possible to discuss arrangements with the funeral directors in advance - requests will be lodged with the company.
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Though admonished not to by the funeral director , I want to touch her.
expenses
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Their widows should have collected £2,750 to help with funeral expenses , but there was no money in the fund.
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Tommy Dorsey paid the funeral expenses .
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The family took Victor back home because had he died in hospital then they could not have afforded the funeral expenses .
home
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I could have asked to go to the funeral home for a last view, to have the coffin unscrewed.
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They went past a couple of funeral homes along the way.
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Black day A funeral home was throwing open its doors today with guided tours around the coffins, memorial stones and hearses.
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The afternoon papers are on the back seat and he reads them until the limousine stops in front of a funeral home .
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After passing a State board licensing examination, new funeral directors may join the staff of a funeral home .
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The funeral home brought her directly from the morgue this morning, and she may still be cold.
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One of his houses is now a funeral home .
parlour
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He covers himself in rose-water all the time so that the place smells like a funeral parlour .
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It was a testimonial for a funeral parlour which had dealt with the victims of a forest fire.
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But what could be more important than his appointment as chairman of the largest and most prestigious funeral parlour in the city?
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At three in the morning I wake up with a start and think I am in a funeral parlour .
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There were five cars from the funeral parlour following the coffin.
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I followed him into the funeral parlour , where we were greeted by a businesslike undertaker.
procession
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Trelawney himself is buried in Pelynt Church and the crozier carried in his funeral procession is also there on view.
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Herbalifers scuttle into permanent blackness, and a Soweto funeral procession comes on.
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The funeral procession started peacefully in Brooklyn, with thousands following the coffin and lining the streets.
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Citizens lined the main streets and applauded as the funeral procession passed by.
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Regardless of the general press of humanity, a funeral procession was attempting to pass down it from the other end.
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It's a wedding journey, not a funeral procession .
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Gandhi's funeral Rajiv Gandhi was cremated on May 24 after a four-hour state funeral procession through the streets of Delhi.
pyre
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A special funeral pyre was built in the nearby woods to cremate deceased Hindu servicemen.
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M., Ramdas, the third son of the Mahatma, set fire to the funeral pyre .
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The birds returned, invaded Bird Spirit Land and flocked and swarmed above the funeral pyre .
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There was something noble, almost Roman about it all: Let the steel industry be my funeral pyre .
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Sucking in a deep lungful of smoke, he looked back at the fiercely blazing funeral pyre for the first time.
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They held that a suicide should not be honored with a funeral pyre and urn-burial.
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She crawled closer to the funeral pyre , rejoicing in its warmth, and slept.
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So, haunted by images of funeral pyres of livestock, how far should we go to support farmers and auxiliary industries?
service
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That provides for the funeral service itself.
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Nearly all worked in the funeral service and crematory industry, but a few worked for the Federal Government.
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A belief in helping the weak was the thread that bound the funeral service .
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At her request there will be no funeral services .
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The funeral service was a hurried one because of their condition.
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I sing in the choir at the funeral service for the family.
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The funeral service and groupings within it had changed over the last five years.
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They provide practical experience in all facets of the funeral service from embalming to transporting remains.
state
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His state funeral was held in Oslo cathedral on Jan. 30.
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The two-hour ceremony combined the dignity of a state funeral with the down-to-earth gospel of her hometown church.
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It was perhaps the closest the country has come to a state funeral in modern times.
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After the State funeral , plans were made for the Coronation, which for the very first time was to be televised.
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A state funeral was held on July 22.
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The military leader, Colonel Acheampong, wanted him to have a state funeral .
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Gandhi's funeral Rajiv Gandhi was cremated on May 24 after a four-hour state funeral procession through the streets of Delhi.
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Borsellino, whose family had rejected a state funeral , was buried on July 24.
■ VERB
arrange
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You can not choose who will arrange your funeral and take care of your affairs after you have died.
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Some one has to arrange for the funeral .
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The person applying must have taken responsibility for arranging the funeral .
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She had no family, and Lilly arranged the funeral .
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Eventually the medical school will arrange the funeral , and the family can participate if they wish. 8.
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Relatives at Lyneham will now arrange private funerals .
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During Nigel's second period in hospital, in between the times I spent there, I set about arranging his funeral .
attend
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Earlier in the same church hundreds of mourners attended the funeral of another victim, 52-year-old James McKenna.
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Bill managed our farm, and when Isaac died, of course we were expected to attend the funeral .
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So many people attended his funeral in Cheltenham, that the town was brought to a standstill.
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I did not attend the funeral .
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She will today attend the funeral of the 11-month-old son of one of her closest friends, former flatmate Laura Londsdale.
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MacDonald was attending the funeral of an aunt in Sussex.
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She had decided not to attend the funeral , believing now that dignified restraint was her best role.
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She descended into hell to attend the funeral of the raging bull of heaven, her instrument for terrorizing the earth.
go
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He hadn't gone to Auntie's funeral - children often don't.
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And if the clients died of an overdose of bullets, he was not too proud to go to their funerals .
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Children are often not allowed to go to funerals nor allowed to talk or ask questions about the person who has died.
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You might as well go straight to your funeral .
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Meredith speculated whether or not her dinner guest would go to her funeral .
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I called the caseworker and asked did John want to go to the funeral .
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He went to funerals because he liked to think of people being dead in coffins.
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She, the Art Teacher and the Math Teacher went together to the funeral .
hold
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Poor people preferred to hold their funerals on Sundays, when they did not have to work and when public-houses were open.
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Other people held funerals for paper dolls such as Hedy Lamarr, but we thought that was childish.
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Congress had killed a White House buyout plan earlier, and held what amounted to funeral services for the program.
pay
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Daisy let Arthur pay for the funeral , although she knew he had no money.
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And make him pay for the funeral .
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Taking a funeral policy can cost less than paying for a funeral plan by instalments but it depends on average life expectancy.
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Tommy Dorsey paid the funeral expenses.
plan
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BMonths earlier, he had helped his best friend, a former bodybuilder, plan his own funeral .
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When the elder Kim died in 1994, Hwang was on the official committee that planned his funeral .
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The week of the March crusade, a doctor had told Domroes' wife to start making plans for a funeral .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
ice-cream/funeral/tattoo parlour
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Don went to Boston to attend a friend's funeral .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As yet, no awarding body is involved in this part of the process for the funeral industry.
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Both Mercedes and Auto Union sent senior figures to the London funeral and the flowers started to arrive.
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No funeral was planned, a spokesman said Friday.
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She didn't come to the funeral .
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The question then arises: what purpose do Hopi funeral rites serve?
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The town council arranged the funeral and the guild members attended in a secondary role.