I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a picnic basket/hamper (= a container in which you carry food for a picnic )
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
seriously
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But if arrest before that were forbidden, it could seriously hamper the police.
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The real estate market is not unaffected but it is not seriously hampered .
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Campaigning was seriously hampered by increasing political violence, however, and the election was cancelled shortly after polling had commenced.
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Yet Mycobacterium leprae has proved resistant to attempts to grow it in the laboratory, seriously hampering efforts to make vaccines.
severely
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This lack of impact had severely hampered Wilder's fundraising ef-forts.
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Geest warned in the autumn that oversupply in the final quarter of 1995 would severely hamper its full-year bottom line.
■ NOUN
development
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Drastic changes, up or down, hamper longer-term development and can mean re-drafting the national budget at short notice.
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It aids the advent of multinationals, which hampers the development of local businesses.
effort
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This it at once began to use to hamper the government's efforts to cope with the desperate financial situation.
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Stuyvesant, grousing, harassed the exiles and hampered their efforts to buy homes and cemetery plots.
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Survivors of the Paddington rail disaster told the inquiry that inadequate emergency equipment hampered efforts to save lives.
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Donald Peterson said at a Pentagon news briefing as heavy snowfall continued to hamper search and rescue efforts near Vail, Colo.
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Yet Mycobacterium leprae has proved resistant to attempts to grow it in the laboratory, seriously hampering efforts to make vaccines.
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Read in studio Hurricane force winds are hampering efforts to save seals caught in the Shetland oil slick.
fact
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Scientists were further hampered by the fact that no one knew the true incidence of polio, because most cases were inapparent.
lack
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But their work is hampered by lack of money.
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Bad weather has hampered the bombers that lack modern night-attack equipment.
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Initial rescue efforts were hampered by a lack of heavy equipment and by landslides triggered by the initial earthquake.
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Initial deployment was also hampered by lack of transportation.
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Enterprise in the third world tends to be hampered less by lack of capital than by bad economic policies and missing infrastructure.
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But hampered by the lack of enthusiasm from the White House, the measure failed to complete its legislative programme.
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Like all colour-researchers in his day Newton was hampered by the lack of standard colour-nomenclature.
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The removals have been hampered by a serious lack of aeroplanes and helicopters.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Health care costs are severely hampering the nation's small businesses.
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Search efforts were hampered by strong winds and fifteen foot waves.
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The police's work is hampered by people who file false complaints.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Bad weather has hampered the bombers that lack modern night-attack equipment.
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Geest warned in the autumn that oversupply in the final quarter of 1995 would severely hamper its full-year bottom line.
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Pay determination is also hampered by such factors as inflation rates and currency fluctuations against the pound.
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The kitchen may be somewhat hampered by less-than-premium ingredients, primarily meats.
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The real estate market is not unaffected but it is not seriously hampered.
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They tend to hamper every search for factual reality, including research in science.
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This hampers the small banks that the non-banks use as a conduit for their services.
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Wilken said voters' First Amendment right to pick the candidate of their choice was hampered.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
picnic
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We don't own a picnic hamper .
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Many of them had been camped here since early evening with their picnic hampers and lawn chairs.
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The picnic hamper had been stacked quietly and moved aside.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He placed the hamper on the ground, spread a cloth.
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I hung up my tie and jacket, kicked off my sneakers, and threw everything else into the hamper .
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Near the wall was a bass hamper .
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Or the chauffeur, walking ahead, carried the hamper , spread the cloth, returned to the car.
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The bag had been sitting in this dank tent for the last three days and smelled like an old laundry hamper .
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This wicker hamper is packed with delicious goodies and costs £64.92, inclusive of nationwide delivery.
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We whipped up Christmassy feelings and pulled decorations and paper hats out of a hamper given by soldiers in the Outer Hebrides.