noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
good
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People liked her because she was steady, sensible, a good listener .
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Be a good listener and do not demand that children reveal all that they do or think.
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Zach said he was a good listener and that he was a sensitive being.
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They also were good listeners and skilled communicators, had good human relations skills, and were keenly interested in the subject.
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And apart from the information you get, being a good listener helps the other side to relax and have confidence in you.
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In the Collins family, Kevin was not actually told stories about how he, too, was a good listener .
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This is sometimes reversed; wives are not always good listeners .
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Seek not only to be understood but to understand-be a good listener .
sympathetic
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It will give you the opportunity to discuss your problems with a sympathetic listener .
young
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And many of these were younger listeners too.
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We go along with the theory that younger listeners will identify themselves with the group Cancer.
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The younger listeners also produce about three times as many simple requests as the older listeners.
■ NOUN
radio
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I felt I was fortunate in being in a position to brighten the lives of radio listeners .
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We found many people, including a large number of radio listeners , who were ill-informed on these matters.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He paused momentarily to check that his listeners had fully appreciated the humour of his remark.
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KCEA, a big-band radio station, relies on money from its listeners to keep running.
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Some of our regular listeners have complained about the new program schedule.
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The programme already has more than two million listeners across the country.
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The station was flooded with calls from listeners after the show.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But it never quite works properly, because when the listener instinctively moves his head, the sound rotates as well.
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But Wolfe admits that less than 1 percent of listeners take time to phone the station with opinions.
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Everyone remembers that much today, while few remember the substance of a debate that radio listeners thought Nixon had won.
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In the spoken mode listeners receive whole utterances.
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In Tony Crosland he found a ready listener , and the Woolwich speech marked a sharp redirection of policy in higher education.
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Marcovicci charmed her listeners, all of them old friends, it seemed.
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Some listeners were fooled by the imitation.
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The broadcast appealed to all sorts of listeners.