NEWCOMER


Meaning of NEWCOMER in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

other

Wilson steadied the team at the back and was supported well by Lawrence and the other newcomer , Bain.

Meanwhile, those same gossipers will have found yet some other newcomer about whom to enthuse.

political

So Kimon's rivals, Pericles and Ephialtes, were not political newcomers in 462.

Robert K.. Dornan by political newcomer Loretta Sanchez.

relative

A relative newcomer to the news control booth is the remote coordinator.

The detractors say they are relative newcomers who would have constituted a gamble.

A relative newcomer to Wallingford, starting seven years ago.

But having lived in a Louisiana prison for five years, he is a relative newcomer .

■ VERB

leave

The Customs officer closed the door softly, almost reverently, leaving her and the newcomer alone.

The Ohio bank does not leave its newcomers to sink or swim by themselves.

In a sense, they did not leave the newcomers behind.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

comparative beginner/newcomer etc

A word of advice - don't sit for hours at the knitting machine, particularly if you are a comparative beginner.

The fishing and fish-processing industry in North Shields is a comparative newcomer.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Also elected was council newcomer Mike Rowlinson.

Although she's a newcomer to the sport, she's already very successful.

I was fifty and a comparative newcomer to computers.

Our team will include some familiar faces as well as a few newcomers.

The inhabitants of these remote mountain villages tend to be very suspicious of newcomers.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

He used to run the Harvard program for newcomers in Congress, to introduce them to the legislative process.

The newcomer mates as soon as females are in oestrus.

The landlord, anxious to please, pushed glasses of hollands before the newcomers.

The open-year problem also deters new capital, for it threatens to saddle newcomers too with unquantifiable losses from the past.

There was even room for high-profile newcomers at the toy fair, such as software giant Microsoft.

When the market turned sour on the wireless newcomers, the big bidders were stuck.

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