I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a lavish gift (= a large, impressive, or expensive gift )
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She received lavish gifts of jewellery and clothes.
a lavish party (= one where a lot of money has been spent )
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He threw lavish parties for his celebrity friends.
a lavish/extravagant lifestyle (= in which you buy or do expensive things )
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How can he afford such a lavish lifestyle?
heap/lavish praise on sb (= praise them a lot )
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Ireland's manager has heaped praise on his team.
lavish praise (= very high praise )
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United’s captain received lavish praise from his manager.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
lifestyle
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Emmett said in court that his lavish lifestyle came from businesses he ran selling second-hand cars and double-glazing.
party
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The lavish party is still talked about today.
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Held in a sprawling Phoenix convention center, the lavish party is big enough to accommodate four or five bands simultaneously.
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Industry heavyweights routinely spend millions of dollars on extravagant booths and lavish parties .
praise
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The instrument more than justifies your lavish praise and I am delighted with it in every respect.
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Uncle Shim laid lavish praise on my parents for the quality of the food, the effort in preparation.
scale
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At Kaiserslauten he built a royal palace of red stone on a lavish scale .
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He had held his Christmas court at Talmont, north of La Rochelle, and distributed gifts on a lavish scale .
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But the improver is into intellectual nourishment on a lavish scale .
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King Edward visited several times when shooting parties and other entertaining took place on a lavish scale .
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Several pounds of flesh Never before in history have the poor financed the rich on such a lavish scale .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a lavish apartment
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The restaurant has a lavish dessert menu.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A lavish fete rings in the historic day.
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Besides his lavish entertaining, he wore expensive gabardine suits and handmade shoes.
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For much of his Mastership the stipend paid by the Company actually fell below the far from lavish £10 to only £9.
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If Huffington is any model, Forbes's lavish spending itself may enhance his stature.
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If you have to buy a customer with lavish entertainment, you might as well buy your way out of every problem.
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Nevertheless, the stringent regimen that was normality for many - even in a lavish burg - was staggering back towards normal.
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The path wound off into soiled twilight purples, lavish and darkly tangled, vanishing altogether after a few yards.
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You can dish up lavish meals without doing anything more than popping a ready meal in the microwave.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A parish as wealthy as Holy Trinity, he believed, should not be lavishing its resources on itself.
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Allen apparently thinks little about lavishing some of his billions on companies that may or may not prove successful.
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From then on, act as if you've never met her before, avoid the mundane and lavish her with compliments.
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Local officials traditionally lavish entertainment on national officials who dole out money for public works and other local projects.
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Now your son is lavishing upon the computer the attention he would give to any new, rewarding and particularly attractive toy.