noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
greetings card
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
friendly
▪
The flying club and bar offers a friendly greeting and place to pay the small landing fee.
▪
Affection may be expressed with hugs, smiles, pats on the head, friendly greetings , and being tucked into bed.
▪
The smile has to be understood by the other person as what it was meant to be - a friendly greeting .
▪
On most Fridays, friendly greetings echoed down the long, gleaming corridors.
▪
The Commission does not wish to discourage the friendly greeting before the service, or the fellowship after it.
■ NOUN
birthday
▪
The members wanted to visit the lady to pass on birthday greetings .
▪
These days they hung on for their hundred-year-old birthday greetings from the White House.
card
▪
Another greeting card photographer has claimed Koons has based a sculpture on her work.
▪
Small greetings cards are available at the Information Desk for this purpose.
▪
A greetings card company, for example, may include journalists from teenage magazines on their list for sample Christmas cards.
▪
Calendars, diaries, postcards, greetings cards .
▪
Just then the postman called with more packets and greetings cards , amongst which was also a letter.
▪
And high quality greetings cards can be twice the price of those shown here.
▪
But why diversify further into greetings cards , calendars, diaries or posters?
▪
I took a job at a place where they did greeting cards .
cards
▪
Small greetings cards are available at the Information Desk for this purpose.
▪
Calendars, diaries, postcards, greetings cards .
▪
Just then the postman called with more packets and greetings cards , amongst which was also a letter.
▪
And high quality greetings cards can be twice the price of those shown here.
▪
But why diversify further into greetings cards , calendars, diaries or posters?
▪
I took a job at a place where they did greeting cards .
▪
A group of nineteenth century greeting cards and valentines, types of ephemera now a popular field of collecting.
▪
Calligraphy at Christmas Christmas is a natural time to indulge in the creation of greetings cards .
■ VERB
exchange
▪
He roused himself wearily to exchange greetings with the elders as they passed him, and went in to his foster-father.
▪
Word is she and McDermott exchanged pleasantries and greetings and watched the goings-on.
▪
Hardly a word was exchanged after the first greeting .
▪
Some neighbors I knew walked past on the street, and we exchanged the usual greetings: Buenas noches, buenas noches.
▪
They exchanged brief greetings but one day he was walking slowly past the end of Magdalen Street as she cycled up.
▪
We gathered around a paddy dike and exchanged greetings and impressions.
▪
I wondered how long I should give them to exchange greetings .
▪
They shook hands, exchanged greetings , and so on.
give
▪
Depending on how influential people were, Mickey either nodded at them or gave them a hearty greeting .
▪
If he understood it, Thorfinn gave no sign, greeting Crinan.
▪
I gave them our greetings from Q.P. and they gave me theirs to return to you.
▪
I wondered how long I should give them to exchange greetings .
send
▪
They prefer to send seasonal greetings to their loved one by fax or with a telephone call.
▪
But they sent greetings to Dole and had a prayer for the Clintons and the Doles.
▪
She tells him to take care of himself, and sends greetings from the whole family.
▪
Kravchuk had sent his greetings to the Congress formed in August.
▪
My master, King Philip, sends fraternal greetings .
▪
President Kravchuk sent a message of greetings to the congress.
▪
He has sent greetings to Convocation and all old friends.
▪
Rose sends greetings to all those Medau friends she hasn't seen for some time.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
season's greetings
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪
Jim paused next to the fence to exchange greetings with his neighbor on the other side.
▪
Michelle shouted out a greeting from across the room.
▪
Siegfried bustled in, muttered a greeting , and began to pour his coffee.
▪
The only acceptable form of greeting in business is a handshake.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪
He could hear his piping London voice with its parrot greetings and unfounded optimism.
▪
He looked up slowly at Yanto's greeting .
▪
I wondered how long I should give them to exchange greetings.
▪
Meredith's offered hand of greeting dropped limply to her side in bewilderment.
▪
The greetings are hand-delivered to the home of every employee who calls in sick.
▪
Too late and the greeting is grunted as an afterthought as you both pass only feet away from each other.
▪
Word is she and McDermott exchanged pleasantries and greetings and watched the goings-on.