I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
incidental music
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
music
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While the band plays incidental music the recruits struggle not to sway to the tones of the well-known tunes.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The concert is just for fun, really. Any profit we make from it will be purely incidental .
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The puzzles are fun, but are incidental to the plot of the book.
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The Red Cross will provide money for food, housing, and incidental expenses.
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Tuition and incidental fees for students total $21,975.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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An incidental effect even for those who never use computers may be a change in the nature of junk-mail.
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An incidental feature of the capital transactions is the implication that the capital invested in local farming is being eroded.
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But if so, this is incidental .
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Cloning qua cloning is almost incidental for us, too.
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It would also have the incidental advantage of further clarification of expectations of managers.
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Such machines have an incidental use on carpeting and may find therefore a role beyond the kitchen door.
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Three incidental features of forensic hypnosis may help jog memories, but these potential memory aids are not unique to hypnosis.
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Thus the working party is arguing that information skills are not merely incidental to the curriculum but central to it.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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After paying rent, she has very little money for food, clothing, and incidentals.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Although what is selected for is an ability to grow on poisoned ground, sterility emerges as an incidental .
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Production can not be an incidental to the mitigation of inequality or the provision of jobs.
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Their breakdown in hybrids is an incidental to evolution within each one.