adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
petty bourgeois
petty cash
petty crime (= crime that is not very serious )
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Immigrants were blamed for the increase in petty crime.
petty jealousy disapproving (= jealousy about unimportant things )
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He quickly discovered the petty jealousies and gossip of village life.
petty larceny
petty officer
petty restrictions (= that seem unreasonable and unnecessary )
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The removal of petty restrictions has made it much easier to do business.
petty theft (= the stealing of something that is not very valuable )
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There had been a rash of petty thefts in the hotel.
petty thieves (= thieves who steal small things )
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They were nothing but petty thieves .
petty (= unreasonable rules about unimportant things )
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There are hundreds of petty rules.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
bourgeoisie
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An alliance between workers, peasants and petty bourgeoisie necessitates a bureaucratic authoritarian regime. 2.
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I had better go now and pay my respects to the petty bourgeoisie .
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Apart from farmers, even the old petty bourgeoisie have grown or remained stable as a proportion of the labour force.
cash
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We now have to buy it from our petty cash .
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This is not a buck here or a buck there in the petty cash till.
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Completion and interpretation of petty cash transactions. 3 Materials and Stationery Use and control; methods of economy.
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They are entered in the petty cash book.
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These items are usually paid for out of the petty cash .
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If you work in retailing, you may be asked to look after the petty cash .
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Borrowing money from colleagues at work, petty cash , or from neighbours is a fast way of making yourself unpopular.
commodity
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In other words, it seemed that as petty commodity traders these marketwomen were often unable even to reproduce their present conditions.
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Marx himself might have viewed these small-scale marketers as resembling petty commodity producers more than petty capitalists.
crime
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As the years had progressed a series of petty crimes had seen him in remand homes, borstals and finally prison.
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Johnson had two prior convictions for residential burglaries and a history of petty crimes .
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He has convictions there for a number of theft and similar petty crime offences since leaving St Patrick's.
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How do three-strikers endure the thought of spending life in prison for a relatively petty crime ?
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If the government no longer differentiates between petty crime and murder, why should they?
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Stretched to the limit ... police chief says petty crime is going unchecked.
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There's petty crime and crime on a grand scale, well organised.
criminal
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Before they met me, Steve and Paul were just petty criminals , didn't know nothing about nothing.
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Amongst them were pickpockets, alcoholics, pimps, drug peddlers and other petty criminals .
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Over the years several have been the victim of petty criminals .
jealousy
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The sudden rivalries and petty jealousies .
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Her petty jealousy and deep ambivalence about Dickinson explode through her schoolmarm prose.
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Athelstan watched the scene around him and tried to keep his mind free of Benedicta and the petty jealousies which nagged him.
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This bitter struggle was personified by the Soong family, for years rent by political differences and petty jealousies .
officer
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You can earn advancement to leading cook and then to petty officer cook or caterer.
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That other sailor was later identified as Jonathan Rushin, a 23-year-old petty officer third class.
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He knew nothing about drill, but learned the necessary movements from books and soon gained promotion to chief petty officer .
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A petty officer , his wife and three incredibly well-behaved children were first.
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In all, four sailors were punished and three petty officers , including Wait, were removed from the Salt Lake City.
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Mine hunting director petty officer Simmo Simmons calls up the image on to his table screen.
theft
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The vast majority were, for example, petty thefts , acts of vandalism, and minor assaults.
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They had petty thefts of eggs or a chicken, but no robbery.
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There had been a rash of petty thefts in the hotel and we were all warned to be vigilant.
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My background is petty theft and liquor store holdups and the usual drug junk.
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In contrast, petty theft has a very low rate of reporting to the police, and a low detection rate.
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So, you see, even these minor distinctions felt like petty theft .
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This will tend to incline them toward petty theft .
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In the dry parlance of a police report, it was nothing more than a petty theft .
thief
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Most burglaries are the work of petty thieves on the look our for an easy opportunity.
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Habitual petty thieves and drug addicts dumped on top of their already bulging caseload become their newest clients.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a petty personal attack
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Sometimes he can be so petty about money.
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The meeting spent too much time on petty issues, and didn't address the real problem.
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We started having arguments over petty little things.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And how petty those ambitions were, really, besides my family's happiness.
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But we kept pushing forward and we fought fair and we tried not to be petty .
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I was too defiant to return to such an art school, so cramped, so bunged up with petty authority.
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So can a person caged in corporate life begin to assume huge anxieties about petty annoyances.
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The new courts were designed to relieve police courts of petty offences.
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The sudden rivalries and petty jealousies.
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This isn't about some petty artistic vendetta.