noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a cigarette packet British English , a cigarette pack American English
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Her mother found an empty cigarette packet in her pocket.
a packet of cigarettes British English , a pack of cigarettes American English
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How much does a packet of cigarettes cost?
cost a bomb/a packet British English (= have a very high price )
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He has a new sports car that must have cost a bomb.
packet boat
pay packet
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
crisp
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Ant: Anything - potato sacks, vacuum cleaner bags, crisp packets ... Louise: That's stupid.
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As we exchanged information, the Alsatian sat at our feet, licking the salt out of an empty crisp packet .
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Ask your family and friends to give you their empty crisp packets for a week.
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He did not get a standing ovation; instead the applause resembled the sound of empty crisp packets blowing across an playground.
empty
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With luck, she might be buried for ever under the wet newspapers, stinking food remnants and empty cornflake packets .
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As we exchanged information, the Alsatian sat at our feet, licking the salt out of an empty crisp packet .
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And then there are all those empty packets discarded out of the window on to Britain's already polluted streets.
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Ask your family and friends to give you their empty crisp packets for a week.
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Bodie upturned the waste bin and sorted through the small pile of chewing-gum wrappers, empty cigarette packets , and cigarette butts.
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You can't just discard me like an empty cigarette packet .
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He tossed the empty packet on to the overflowing bin in the corner of the room and sat down at the table.
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He did not get a standing ovation; instead the applause resembled the sound of empty crisp packets blowing across an playground.
little
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The first paper bag, by my left knee, had held the four little packets now strewn beside it.
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He ripped open one of the little silver foil packets and handed her the lubricated ring of rubber.
small
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The packet contained two smaller packets - one blue, one white, which were mixed together in a tumbler of water.
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Ironically, the small packets , often emblazoned with a skull-and-crossbones, are harmless.
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The small packets were on the bottom shelf, medium on the middle shelf and large packets on the top.
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I carried the fortune of coins in a small packet of red paper in my jeans.
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The ubiquitous Freezits, small plastic packets of frozen synthetic juice, are strangely absent.
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They sell small packets wrapped in white paper, tied with cotton.
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So she pulled out a rolled up tenner and a small packet .
■ NOUN
cereal
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He looked at the cereal packets .
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Make your own kidney dialysis machine using an old cereal packet , some Sellotape and a used toilet roll.
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Some noticed that the cereal packets were wider or longer than soap packets.
cigarette
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Napkins and old cigarette packets did not, sadly, put in an appearance.
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Then he searched his pockets and took out a cigarette packet and shook it, but it was empty.
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He crunched pea-nut shells under his feet and waded ankle-deep in ice-cream cartons, paper bags, cigarette packets , half-eaten apples.
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Bodie upturned the waste bin and sorted through the small pile of chewing-gum wrappers, empty cigarette packets , and cigarette butts.
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He taps the cigarette packet round and round on the table surface.
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You can't just discard me like an empty cigarette packet .
information
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Meanwhile, the voter information packets continued to sit in a warehouse as election day approached.
pay
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When my grandparents came over, the next pay packet from my uncle and my father went straight to my grandfather.
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Pay cuts imposed on workers have benefited the profits of corporations and the pay packets of better-off.
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The 1986 Finance Act introduced tax relief on regular giving to charities deducted from the giver's pay packet .
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She knew how much the pay packet meant to that middle-class family.
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Then after two or three months she had had enough so she didn't give her pay packet in at all.
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He'd been conned, as if he was an eighteen-year-old kid up from the suburbs with his first pay packet .
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Except for the workmen who were already in the pubs splashing their pay packets about.
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Mr Smith must learn that hitting the pay packet hits the housing market, and that hits the institutions.
wage
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Mr Yarrow paused a moment before placing a wage packet into it.
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They are also the largest single source of income, and so spending from wage packets is a key source of markets.
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When I get my first wage packet let's blow it on an outing somewhere.
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The more assertive and imaginative found honest ways to supplement their regular wage packet .
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In their last wage packets , Harvard did not pay the £2,000 or so each that they were expecting.
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In the past when I used to get less money in my wage packet I used to start crying at once.
■ VERB
buy
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I buy those packets of small reels of thread which are often only 50p or £1 a pack.
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Jean-Paul paused at a kiosk to buy a packet of Gauloises.
cost
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It will cost me a packet to travel down to watch the rescheduled match!
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A round of bullets costs less than a packet of cigarettes.
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I don't care if it costs a packet !
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These things must cost the firm a packet .
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Cars, food, and clothes are cheaper, but services like plumbers cost a packet .
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Packet You'd think that adding £6,000 on to their existing mortgage of £36,000 would cost them a packet .
find
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On it you will find some packets of chemical powders, a small bottle and a book.
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Will his wife find a packet of three in his five-iron pouch?
give
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Then after two or three months she had had enough so she didn't give her pay packet in at all.
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During one period, Philip was given a packet of work sheets to do.
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Who gave you the packet , Holly?
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What was the agency in London, what was the name of the man who gave you that packet ?
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Full instructions are given on the packet .
open
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Perhaps I'd better put the kettle on and crack open a packet of my finest custard creams.
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Don't open the packet with your teeth and be careful not to snag the rubber with rings or finger-nails.
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He opened one of the packets of biscuits and unscrewed the lid of the flask.
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Remember: Open the packet carefully, not with your teeth.
pick
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Idly she picked up her packets of seeds.
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He picked up a fresh packet of Players cigarettes and offered one.
put
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I put the packet of little clothes beside her like an offering and stood back.
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I mean, what better place to put ketchup packets under car tires?
receive
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In return they receive fat pay packets and impunity.
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Each participant received a packet including information guides, maps, a Super Bowl cap and a Share the Warmth lapel pin.
sell
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They are sold in packets or dressed in oil in jars, and are available from delicatessens and health food shops.
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In general, garden catalogs sell seed packets , nursery stock, bulbs or equipment.
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They sell small packets wrapped in white paper, tied with cotton.
take
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Then he searched his pockets and took out a cigarette packet and shook it, but it was empty.
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Interesting examples that support your point always help to add meat to the bone of your document. Take an information packet .
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He pushed her towards the door, then reached into his coat pocket and took out a packet of cigarettes.
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The patient had been told to take two packets daily.
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She smiled slightly and took the packet .
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Keith drops her hand and takes a packet of tissues out of his pocket.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a packet of carrot seeds
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We received our membership packets in the mail.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Each publisher had sent it back, in a packet addressed to Currer Bell.
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I mean, I don't think a packet of crisps and a choc ice is a very spiritual vision.
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Make up Pasta Choice as per packet instructions.
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The packet is posted on the electronic bulletin board, and Felton himself reads them all, responding to many himself.
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The Budget doubles the price of beer and puts 3d on a 9d packet of cigarettes.
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The eggs of this species are shed in a packet - that is several stuck together - and sink.
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The small packets were on the bottom shelf, medium on the middle shelf and large packets on the top.
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The women work exclusively in the packing department, putting coffee into different size packets.