noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
night porter
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
head
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The head porter will have staff ready to handle any luggage.
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Some hotels give a luggage clearance pass to the head porter when the account has been settled.
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The head porter will check off his or her departure list when luggage is cleared. 4.
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Only if you think the head porter is a martinet just wait until you meet Jacques, our maître chef de cuisine.
■ NOUN
hall
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There was no hall porter to pick it up.
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The hall porter will direct you.
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Ever since, the hall porter is always called Ramsbum.
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Their suitcases had been seized by the hall porter and an ageing bell-boy, both avid for Kent cigarettes.
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The hall porter will be able to organise his or her staff to handle the luggage for departing guests. 3.
hotel
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The Tourist Office or your hotel porter can advise you.
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For other sight-seeing tours, including places of interest outside the city, consult any tourist agency or hotel porter .
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Travel: Low wages, but bags of clout Power and perks keep the hotel porter in business.
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Tell your hotel porter where you wish to go and he will usually know the correct bus.
night
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This is a normal practice where, for instance, the night porter books in a guest after reception has closed.
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The doors of the hotel were closed but the night porter appeared as soon as I rang the bell.
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Scenario 1 Suppose the night porter has gone through to the kitchen to make a sandwich.
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Downstairs would be in darkness, so any light going on would attract the attention of the night porter .
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After arguing with the night porter for another ten minutes, they worked their way up floor by floor.
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The night porter used a passkey for those rooms that were empty or where no-one answered.
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We think the night porter called them out, probably to make a few quid.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Also patron of bachelors, bus drivers, porters, travelers, and truck drivers; he is invoked against nightmares.
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Far down the platform a porter rolled milk-churns out of the sun into the shade.
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He worked his way up from kitchen porter , assistant cook, employment at a casino and by painting and decorating.
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I went to pick up luggage too, but a porter came and took it from me.
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Lobsang Junior, one of our porters, was taking a volleyball home to Pishu while another porter carried the net.
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The porter was expecting them and let Maxim park in an awkward position on the forecourt pavement.
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The guards and porters walked about, the bell was rung, the signal was given ad the train started off.
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The hall porter will direct you.