noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a cat owner
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It is estimated that around 64 million Americans are cat owners.
a dog owner
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Dog owners must be responsible for controlling their animals.
a factory owner
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The factory owner placed a large order for some new equipment.
a house owner
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All house owners must pay council tax.
a pet owner
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During hot summer days, pet owners should keep their pet indoors.
a property owner
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It makes sense for property owners to extend their houses rather than move.
a restaurant owner/manager
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He worked as a restaurant manager at Mario's Pizzas for 10 years.
its rightful owner
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I’ll return the money to its rightful owner .
the proud owner (of sth) ( also the proud possessor of sth formal )
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She is now the proud owner of a four-bedroomed house.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
beneficial
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The company is also said to have been the beneficial owner of £346,800 held by solicitors in London.
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Lawyers, under the cloak of client confidentiality, can mask the beneficial owners of accounts.
new
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Her new owner suspected that there had been difficulties, so decided to start Jasmine's training right from the beginning again.
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Those fans are going to greet the new contract between owners and players with a massive yawn.
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The new owner , too, had refused to be interviewed.
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Its art renaissance began in 1996, when the new owners bought it up.
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Leasehold reform to give new rights to owners of flats.
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But when new owners took it over, they dropped the plan.
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The new owners claim the deal is innocuous.
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The new owner is an international investment firm.
original
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The original owners could not sustain the necessary level of investment so the company has now been sold.
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You are buying a proven and successful business-its original owners demonstrated that it works.
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The original owner of the house was a professor at the University.
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The original owner keeps the land but gives up the right to develop it.
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The Red Cross isn't too disheartened by the lack of interest, but no doubt the original owner would not be amused.
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The claim was lodged last year by the three children of the original owner .
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However, an original owner can reclaim within three years from the date of the loss or robbery.
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This is a most comprehensive work which lists the original owners of the lathes and their biography.
present
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This is one of those originals and still giving its present day owner great enjoyment.
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Bloomwater's present owner was a more prosaic figure, Sir Lionel Newman, the paper magnate.
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Since then the pubs passed down through sons, daughters, cousins and nephews to it's present day owners .
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The property is a modern redbrick house which has been tastefully decorated by its present owners .
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The present owners seemed to be living around the back of the house, beside junk-filled stables.
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Bruce and Siddy the boxers are eight years old but can no longer stay with their present owner .
previous
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I have been told by the previous owner that he filled the hubs with grease instead of oil.
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The previous owner was one Jeremy Finch, who at the time of the sale had lived in Larchmont.
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The shop had recently been taken over and the existing stock had been brought in by the previous owner .
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The previous owners had never received any publicity.
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An offending tree may have been planted many years ago by a previous owner .
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The previous owner had used a bathroom off one of the bedrooms as storage and simply closed the door on it.
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This shows the line of descent down to three previous owners of Upper Halling.
private
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Many of our most difficult cases are those where buildings belong not to private owners but to institutions or government organizations.
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By nightfall, the private airboat owners who had volunteered their services were asked to go home.
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Not until higher prices translate into higher profits for private owners will enterprises respond appropriately to the bidding of the invisible hand.
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It then bought the trash recycling plant from its private owner .
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Enclosure might result in every acre being grabbed by private owners , who would sell for speculative building.
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By law, the airwaves belong to the public, not to private business owners .
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What happens if a company is sold to one private sector owner but is transferred to another within a year?
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Neither public nor private owners happen to be great at monitoring managements.
proud
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In its place though, one of you could soon be the proud owner of an Action Replay cartridge.
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Is C-3P0 the proud owner of a Galant?
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She is now the proud owner of an enviable figure, comparable with some one half her age.
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You are not yet the proud owner of the copier you have come for.
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Putting the pressure on I am the very proud owner of a Red Snakehead.
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For your chance to be a proud owner , just study our picture, right.
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Three weeks later and thanks to the filter matting, I was the proud owner of five new Zebra Finches.
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Jasmine is also married and the proud owner of a gold wedding ring - her father's.
rightful
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After a few days its rightful owner came to collect it and informed her that it was in fact a ferret.
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And who is the paintings' rightful owner ?
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In addition, art thefts are likely to be pursued by their rightful owners for well over twenty years.
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All too soon it became politic to think about returning Tony's toy to its rightful owner .
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What about the bird of paradise itself, the rightful owner of the plumes?
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The State Licensing office determined Singer was the rightful owner , as it were, of the deactivated license.
■ NOUN
business
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BThe group has done a substantial amount of work that business owners appreciate.
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By law, the airwaves belong to the public, not to private business owners .
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Any shrewd business owner , after all, wants to get customers in and out as quickly and efficiently as possible.
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Bruce Knight, a Vermont-based business broker, said many business owners are in the same bind as Lifschultz.
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Such techniques are not available to middle-class families with modest savings, or to small business owners holding long-term capital gains.
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The first investor, the small business owner , pays 28 % of the nominal gain.
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Meanwhile, like the refugees in Casablanca, the business owners wait, and wait, and wait.
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Residents and business owners boarded homes and storefronts with plywood and stocked up on bottled water, canned goods and batteries.
car
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Unfortunately they are no respecters of persons or property as car owners find to their dismay.
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When Brayton died in a crash during practice, Ongais was asked by car owner John Menard to step in.
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Any deal between the two will have to safeguard the identity of car owners because of Britain's Data Protection Act.
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The idea is to reserve the precious parking spaces that car owners spend hours digging out of the snow.
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No car owner can neglect to check such basic safety features as tyres, brakes, oil and steering.
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Affluence was hardly a protective factor for car owners .
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But I expect that goes for millions of unnecessary car owners !
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Local car owners quietly decamped to Sanford for better service.
home
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Three out of four home owners expressed concern about the greenhouse effect.
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Were they ministers, the funeral home owner , the largest landowner?
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The Royal Commission wants more grants for home owners to remove lead pipes.
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Inviting other home owners and managers to each home in turn indicates the extent to which this openness has developed.
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He also wanted to scrap the council tax discount offered to second-\#home owners .
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Two women in the car escaped unhurt, but the home owner says he's lucky to be alive.
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The Tribunal hears appeals by prospective residential home owners against local authorities' refusal to register.
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Who loses? Home owners , customers with overdrafts and small businessmen.
part
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It was almost past understanding: Grover was whole or part owner of any number of buildings and restaurants.
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Today, Grace is part owner of a 10-employee firm that builds World Wide Web sites for corporations.
property
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Therefore, it follows, renters lack any incentive to vote against tax hikes and the vulnerable property owners need special protection.
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The mood on the street is positive, and the larger property owners appear to recognize the potential benefits.
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Many also consider restitution unfair on the grounds that everybody suffered under Communism but only property owners will receive compensation.
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In the past, public utility districts would send delinquent tenants' charges on those meters to the property owner .
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The power of each property owner is checked by the corresponding power of each other property owner.
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In 1995, the Stockton Municipal Utilities District placed $ 982, 000 worth of such liens on rental property owners .
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Until leasing prospects improve, property owners should donate the space to nonprofit groups and cultural institutions.
restaurant
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Other officers could be bribed to turn a blind eye, said a restaurant owner in the port of Algeciras.
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The restaurant owner went around the room, trying to separate the dancers.
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With that vision in mind, Wilson got up early one recent day and headed to a marketing convention for restaurant owners .
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Her husband, a restaurant owner , was almost twice her age and diabetic.
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Abrahamian said the largest impact will be felt by restaurant owners .
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Rather we get a feeling for the differences in the island societies through encounters with restaurant owners .
shop
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Warn the shop owner in advance and enlist his help.
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The shop owner continued to gaze out at the blue air which fell away below, just ten yards from his feet.
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Householders and shop owners in the town have been put on standby because of the influx of vermin.
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Luoma, the sandwich shop owner , said he had planned to vote for Forbes before his commercial blitz began.
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A court heard that the shop owner would have died but for the prompt action of two ambulancemen.
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Before it was only pet shop owners who were entertained!
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The shop owner gives him to a little girl who needs him and cares for him.
store
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The room was originally designed for the Pennsylvanian department store owner Edgar J. Kaufmann from 1935.
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They have this preconception of a gun store owner .
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In 1968 he married Sonja Haraldsen, the daughter of a department store owner .
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Modena Fuston, a 67-year-old former store owner , is one such constituent.
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And there are no plans to prosecute the store owners .
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Smith, admitting he had an unreported business relationship with the department store owner , resigned as junior minister for Northern Ireland.
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Now store owner Paul Harper has offered a £500 reward for information leading to a conviction.
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For store owners to think that customer growth will come via cars to an already terribly congested downtown area is beyond belief.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
part owner
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It was almost past understanding: Grover was whole or part owner of any number of buildings and restaurants.
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The man is Captain Peleg, part owner of the ship.
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Today, Grace is part owner of a 10-employee firm that builds World Wide Web sites for corporations.
the previous day/chapter/owner etc
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Chapter 8 provides a summary of the findings from the previous chapters and draws conclusions.
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If the previous chapter of this Report is taken seriously, however, there is a challenge which faces us all.
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In the previous chapter we hypothesized that potential entrants assume that the industry price will not be affected by their entry.
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Instead of travelling with the security truck carrying the money, Morgan had checked out the area round the bank the previous day.
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Perceptions of health status One aspect of health status omitted from the previous chapter on morbidity relates to perceived health status.
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The Coroner's inquest had been held in Southwold the previous day and he had attended with Evelyn.
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The detailed history in the previous chapters has given an account of Ian Paisley's personal combination of religion and politics.
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The temperature then was 41 after the game was postponed the previous day because of freezing rain and snow.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a property owner
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Car owners are facing a 10% rise in the price of gasoline.
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He is the proud owner of two Olympic gold medals.
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The owners of the company live abroad.
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The previous owner painted the outside of the house yellow.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Already, Buss said, talk of the Padres presence has prompted some property owners to map renovation or development projects.
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For some owners, of course, religion existed less for conversion than control.
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It's worth £20 of anybody's money, whether you're an owner or an enthusiast.
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Pit Bull owners demonstrate outside Parliament.
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Suppose then that factors and their owners always move together.
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The gallery was full and the gallery owner looked happier than when I had last seen him.