noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bargain hunter (= someone looking for a bargain )
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Bargain hunters queued for hours before the store opened.
bounty hunter
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
good
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But like all good hunters going into the jungle, I needed camouflage.
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It's an excellent stable - they produced a very good hunter for me once Jennifer had assured them I was safe.
great
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They recall our travels and migration, they recall great hunters , they are the notes and music of our songs.
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But they were never ones for the tilling of the soil; and they did not make great hunters .
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Stan Wood is the man and he can already claim a place of honour amongst the great fossil hunters of the world.
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The great hunters of our people know the animals of the forest and they persuade them of their fitness to kill.
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The locals are great hunters and scouts, adept at guerilla warfare and skilled with bow, sword and axe.
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Corbett was not only a great hunter and practical naturalist, he was also that rare thing, a natural writer.
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Populations of red deer and boar are believed to be under greater pressure from hunters due to wartime shortages.
■ NOUN
autograph
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During a recent visit he was mobbed by autograph hunters .
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And even if the signature is original it would only be of value to an autograph hunter not an art collector.
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Sometimes genuine letters are offered without the vital signature, some rabid autograph hunter having removed it at some period.
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Soon the autograph hunters were swarming round Drew, Bas and Dancer.
bargain
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Read in studio Antique dealers and bargain hunters have been looking through the belongings of the late Robert Maxwell.
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For the bargain hunter , plenty.
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Ten-mile tailbacks blocked roads as bargain hunters sprang into action after three days at home.
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And sale of the century ... the bargain hunters out in force.
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Tokyo broke a three-day losing streak as the bargain hunters picked up blue chips and tech stocks, writes Ken Hijino.
bounty
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Once regarded as little more than a fish-eating nuisance, harbor seals were sought by bounty hunters in Massachusetts until 1962.
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It's the bounty hunters you've got to be wary of.
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This is where the present bounty hunter story has become confused.
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As an attractive young heiress Karen might quickly become the target of unscrupulous bounty hunters .
job
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Myriad receptions and reunions could not disguise the bleak prospects for job hunters .
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What are unemployed job hunters supposed to do? &038;.
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About 50,000 hopeful job hunters are queuing to emigrate.
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These millions of job hunters lead to a human result that everyone can understand.
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The 31-year-old job hunter was delighted when she received an appointment for a job interview.
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Meanwhile job hunters have been complaining that there is a shortage of jobs.
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Yet this is what most job hunters do, because they are unaware of the hidden job market.
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The person approached is usually not a job hunter but some one who is very successful in his or her present position.
souvenir
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Local militia had to protect it against enthusiastic souvenir hunters .
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Edgewater and Oak Hill have ordinances to protect possible archaeological sites from souvenir hunters .
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Police even stopped one souvenir hunter cycling off with the ship's compass tucked under his arm.
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However, the only unauthorised visitors appear to have been souvenir hunters and men foraging among the stores.
treasure
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Gradually, Garrett's home manufactured machines began to be noticed by his peer group of treasure hunters .
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The Atocha and its riches were discovered in 1985 by treasure hunter Mel Fisher off the Florida coast.
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In the early days of archaeology, the dividing line between archaeologists and treasure hunters was all but invisible.
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But in the areas where archaeologists and treasure hunters have good contacts, much information can and has been recovered.
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I am embarking on a number of projects which I hope to be of interest to fellow treasure hunters .
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And the treasure hunter doesn't want to be identified.
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Recently I have come to the conclusion that treasure hunters should have their own exclusive museum.
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But experts say the Worcester treasure hunter may still be in for a pleasant suprise.
■ VERB
become
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So, by slow and painful steps, man learnt to become the hunter instead of the hunted, killing animals for food.
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Some because he has become the most vitriolic hunter advocate in the nation.
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Male infants were considered more important than female because they would grow up to become hunters .
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The reasons so many people become job hunters are many and varied.
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Some Night Goblins become very proficient Squig hunters and come to be quite nonchalant about the dangers involved.
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In this scenario, man became the hunter , woman the gatherer.
kill
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There is nothing outlandish in the idea of lions killing hunters .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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deer hunters
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A state insect hunter found the dried-up male Medfly in a trap in Milpitas on Sept. 29.
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He tended there to wounded animals, who had been harmed by the traps and arrows of hunters.
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In Tasmania aborigine hunters led a nomadic life to take advantage of the seasonal food supply in different regions.
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Prey and hunter , hunter and prey.
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The hunters were not even breaking even, yet the hunt continued despite the falling catches.
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Vampire hunters need to be a little bit tipsy, he said.