adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a loyal customer (= who has been a customer for a long time )
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Some of our loyal customers have been coming here since the store opened.
a loyal fan (= fans who always support someone )
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He will be playing to hundreds of loyal fans on Sunday.
a loyal supporter
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The party still has many loyal supporters.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
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Dysart had been, over the years, as loyal a friend as any man could ask for.
fiercely
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Despite the planners, people are people and fiercely loyal to their hospitals.
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When one of the fiercely loyal team is gunned down in the line of duty, the unit seems ready to collapse.
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The dragons of Caledor are fiercely loyal to their riders.
intensely
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But he is also said to be intensely loyal to the woman who stood by him during his 27 years of imprisonment.
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Along with his intensely loyal family he struggles hard to achieve downward mobility.
more
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I don't know Ian, but I do know Joanna, and you couldn't have a more loyal friend.
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Private equity is far more loyal than public markets.
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Those without families proved more loyal to rulers than men who dallied with the hope of establishing their own dynasties.
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Card holders not only spend more , but are more loyal .
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But shoppers are now more loyal to their local shops than to faceless behemoths like Philip Morris.
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Mrs Roosevelt had a much stronger and more loyal band of supporters than Mrs Clinton does.
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Alongside some respectable advisers, he seems to attract a rabble of supporters more loyal to the man than to the cause.
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Finally, salespeople are generally seen as more loyal to their accounts than to their companies.
most
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The most loyal readers buy as many as 30 titles a month.
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Still, the Corvette has one of the most loyal followings in the car world.
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Even the most loyal officials found it increasingly difficult to defend serfdom on moral grounds.
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You managed to chase away your most loyal viewer.
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His most loyal cocaine customers were in the City, Whitehall and the Palace of Westminster.
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The ship has one of the most loyal followings in passenger ship history.
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The 1997 parliament was the most loyal of modern times.
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Realistically, even the most loyal Raiders fans had to expect a performance like this sooner or later.
so
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But if he were really so loyal he would keep quiet.
still
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Soldiers appeared in the streets and showed that the Army was still loyal to the Shah and to Zahedi.
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Roosevelt reckoned that the Army was still loyal to the Shah and that a strong coalition could be mounted against Mossadeq.
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Karpov, who is still loyal to the regime, in so far as there is one, is 39.
very
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Even so, he remains very loyal to his old friends.
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In spite of everything, he and Frank were really very loyal to one another.
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George had a very loyal nature towards Lennie.
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Any program that can satisfy so many wants at such a bargain price is guaranteed a very loyal constituency.
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Unlike you, Paige is a very loyal person - she wouldn't betray you, even to save herself.
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Gramm supporters in Texas are very loyal , they say.
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A lonely and gruff soul, Glam was exceedingly ugly with rough hair and skin, though very loyal to his employer.
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I met some now very loyal friends who have seen me through these last three and a half years.
■ NOUN
customer
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The retail part of the business contains loyal customers with much repeat business.
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Until it was forced out, Super Star Video had relied on extremely loyal customers whom the Elgaens treated as friends.
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That's bad news for loyal customers .
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Independent grocery stores have used Nordstrom-style personal service for years to maintain loyal customer bases.
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The local store is rumoured to be considering Sunday closing after the loss of its most loyal customer !
fan
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Gerry will be playing to hundreds of loyal fans at the Apollo theatre in Oxford tonight.
friend
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I don't know Ian, but I do know Joanna, and you couldn't have a more loyal friend .
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Ingrid and other loyal friends spent long hours burning the midnight oil with her when it came to the final typing.
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He reaffirms his pleasure at once again seeing so many of his loyal friends .
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You could be passing up the chance to obtain the most loving, loyal friend anyone could wish for.
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Luckily I have many loyal friends here - more, perhaps, than you do.
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I met some now very loyal friends who have seen me through these last three and a half years.
servant
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He would never be a rival, he would remain the loyal servant of the Chairman.
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I came here to be a good lord as well as the King's most loyal servant !
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It's loyal servants the Lancaster and Andovers bid their farewells.
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Two of the King's most loyal servants have died here, foully murdered.
service
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Tenants who refuse to accept leases are given notice to quit and find themselves on the streets after years of loyal service .
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I feel let down after giving the club 10 years' loyal service .
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The Institute is grateful to them for their loyal service which in Ian Shaw's case totalled nearly twenty five years.
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Anderson has been forced to retire from the game through injury after ten years' loyal service at St.James's Park.
subject
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Klein prided himself on being a loyal subject who had served his adopted country with honour.
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The man was still conditioned to think like a loyal subject of the T'ang.
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She wouldn't want her loyal subject imprisoned.
support
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In return the club may see a return to even greater loyal support .
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So despite the enormous gains they conferred un their masters, they were often cheated of the loyal support they deserved.
supporter
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There is a limit to the knocks loyal supporters can take.
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Oregon has an organization like this too, called the Fast Break Club, with fifty loyal supporters .
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For 30 years, he was a paid-up and apparently loyal supporter of its policies.
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And the two Express newspapers are the Tories' most loyal supporters in Fleet Street.
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Diana hopes that all the pressures of trying to pretend to loyal supporters about her marriage will now be removed.
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But Jenny, determined to be a true and loyal supporter , was hedging Maria's bets.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
generous/loyal/honest etc to a fault
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David was loyal to a fault , and in his naive understanding quietly expected the same kind of loyalty in return.
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He is loyal to a fault , even to his enemies.
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His father's brother, Gloucester had hitherto been loyal to a fault .
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Your tutor may be generous to a fault but can not reward irrelevance or peripheral knowledge display. 3.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a loyal supporter of the Green Party
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Although they continue to argue, she remains fiercely loyal to her mother.
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Many of the party's loyal supporters have begun to question his leadership.
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She has been a good and loyal friend to me.
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She was described as a loyal friend of the Princess.
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The army remained loyal to the president.
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Their fans remain loyal .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Card holders not only spend more, but are more loyal .
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He more willingly identifies himself as Clinton's loyal lieutenant, ready to assume full command.
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I placed all my loyal guard at the previous Inquisitor's service, did I not?
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In return the club may see a return to even greater loyal support.
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Inclan and the people of Puebla remained loyal to Herrera and to constitutional order and refused to accede to his demands.
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Klein prided himself on being a loyal subject who had served his adopted country with honour.
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The national guard of Jalisco, however, remained loyal to the government.