PLENTY


Meaning of PLENTY in English

I. pronoun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

ample opportunity/plenty of opportunity (= a number of chances to do something )

There will be ample opportunity for shopping.

have enough/plenty etc to eat

Have you had enough to eat?

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

enough/plenty to go around

Plenty enough to go around for any city.

There are community therapists, but not enough to go around.

there are plenty more fish in the sea

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

"More dessert?" "No thanks, I've had plenty ."

There's plenty to do and see in this beautiful vacation area.

II. adverb

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

There's plenty more chicken if you want it.

Those pants are plenty big on you.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Grizzlies foes have seen plenty already.

He owned the cottage and plenty more-seven miles of shoreline, twelve thousand acres of prime timber butting up against state forest.

Meanwhile, its conventional forces are plenty good enough to banish the nuclear option to the realm of the theoretical.

Out in the woodshed there are plenty more.

III. noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

still

But there's still plenty of venture capital out there looking for bright new ideas.

There is still plenty of room for disagreement in other areas, though.

On many farms, there's still plenty of scope in the variable costs, believes Aubourn Farming agronomist Nick Bleach.

There were still plenty of nice places to live in the North Bronx.

Although the sky is beginning to cloud over, there are still plenty of gaps where groups of stars shine through.

There was still plenty of fight left in the Bantams with Wetherall firing a late chance over the top.

■ VERB

do

We certainly do plenty of that.

They did plenty of warming up in the boat, they argued, but Jurgen Grobler insisted on it.

Gloucestershire, unusually, did not bowl well early on when the ball did plenty .

drink

Keep drinking plenty of water to rinse your mouth.

Patients need to drink plenty of water to counteract the dehydration due to fluid loss.

Avoid any alcohol but drink plenty of water or juice to keep you well hydrated and calm.

eat

But now I exercise and eat right and get plenty of rest.

Deese has to eat plenty to stay at 285 pounds.

find

There's no need to rev it hard to find plenty of useable power.

No doubt they will find plenty .

The struggling Kings found plenty of positives in the tie.

generate

It is likely that we are now generating plenty of fresh material for the tribunals of the future.

That generated plenty of dollars the government could use to repay debts.

Still, it is generating plenty of heat.

get

You've got plenty of water, with the amount of rain that you have.

The dark side gets plenty of air time as it is.

He got plenty of help from Hill, who missed 61 games because of a horrible-looking fracture to his left wrist.

But now I exercise and eat right and get plenty of rest.

She went to the doctor, took antibiotics, accelerated her vitamins, got plenty of rest, but nothing worked.

I was getting plenty of practice.

The best way to recover from this is to get plenty of bed rest.

give

When healed, give the heart plenty of exercise.

We have given ourselves plenty of time to get there.

These markers turn purple four hours ahead of menstruation, giving the wearer plenty of notice.

Those indicators can usually give you plenty of time to get in.

The 748R is light and agile, but it is also rock-solid and gives plenty of confidence.

The puffers are notorious biters and pickers and if placed with other fishes should be given plenty of room.

She still did what she wanted most of the time, and he gave her plenty of room.

Hours where miles of water surround the ship, giving a crew plenty of time for reflection.

include

The Carlsbad Ranch property includes plenty of land for research-and-development facilities.

This began about two hours of troubleshooting, which included plenty of time on hold while the technician checked with supervisors.

Synder stresses the gala includes plenty of activities for kids, including ornament-making workshops.

The literature of opera includes plenty of criticism, much of it as intellectually impressive as the best literary criticism.

leave

The trouble with psychic phenomena is that they're very hard to prove-\#leaving plenty of room for cynicism.

When the economy lost steam, the retailer was left with plenty of stores and debt.

Certainly, the new proposals leave national regulators plenty of room to wiggle.

With resources abundant, the consumption would still leave plenty for you.

Admission is $ 4 at the door, leaving plenty of pocket change for amorous pursuits.

offer

Of course, Tesoro offers plenty of choices for the beer drinker as well.

In the course of pursuing that fascination, McGrath offers us plenty of the first kind of suspense, too.

Appropriately, the tribute concert also will offer up plenty of dance.

It offers plenty of opportunity for discussion.

If pining for the object of your affections is your preoccupation, Asawa offers plenty of support here in these amatory plaints.

Prescott offers plenty of lodging choices.

provide

This will provide plenty of fun so long as he knows where to point it. 7 Love at first sight.

Like the yellow tang, this fish should be provided with plenty of algae.

Tarloff provides plenty of chuckles, and shows a knack for sending up academia's more oblique critical theory.

The market provides plenty of opportunities, and trade-offs.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

It is a disgrace that we still have hunger in this land of plenty .

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