noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
poster child
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Dillon is the poster child for wasted talent.
poster paint
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
large
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The large four poster like a barge of state sailed empty into emptiness three centuries too late.
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Analysis Record the results from the analysis chart on the board or on a large poster .
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A large poster hung above them advertising A.R.P. outfits.
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Their wickedness was emphasised by several large posters detailing the dangers of both active and passive smoking.
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Pinned to one wall was a large poster advertising one of his films: The Young Can Suffer.
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There is a large poster which appears on the London underground and in some national newspapers.
new
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A few new posters appeared as students from other colleges went to Beida to have a look at what was happening.
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Patrick committee created a new poster for the week-long festival.
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Yesterday, the full programme was announced and a new poster put on display.
■ NOUN
advertising
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A bilingual poster advertising motor cars for private hire.
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The national party organizations increasingly make use also of press and poster advertising .
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Inset Tourists now reach Victoria Falls: poster advertising its natural wonders.
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On every side images of love and violence erupted from glass-fronted posters advertising coming attractions.
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Dismantling revealed traces of Victorian wallpaper and a Midland Railway poster advertising excursions in 1875.
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Pinned to one wall was a large poster advertising one of his films: The Young Can Suffer.
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Please find enclosed a set of factsheets and poster advertising the Fair Deal Exhibition.
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A judge decided that the poster advertising the film was much too close to the one used for the original Cleopatra.
bed
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Our premier Regency room with its magnificent gorgeously draped four poster bed and its attractive and spacious bedroom ensures a luxurious interlude.
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Springall's lying alone under its leather covering in the great four poster bed in his mansion.
boy
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He is no performer in a costume, no trumped up poster boy .
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I was the poster boy for that initiative.
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One is a responsible leader and the other a partisan poster boy .
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My cousins are furious that I called them poster boys for bad behavior.
campaign
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Instead they tried to take their minds off the poster campaign by providing weekend entertainment.
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Snooker ace John Parrott and soccer stars from Tranmere Rovers were featured in previous poster campaigns .
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The Tory poster campaign , too, has been criticised for being too backward looking and negative.
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It did, however, spend huge sums in television advertising and also embarked on a massive poster campaign .
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The campaign was backed by a major poster campaign.
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The poster campaign for Trainspotting was crucial in fostering its box-office success and has been widely copied.
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But a spokesman for the firm which organised the poster campaign said it should come down within the next five days.
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We must also divert money from the expensive irrelevancies of poster campaigns and media triumphalism towards full-time agencies and local party-building.
child
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The 1947 poster child , Nancy Drury from Louisville, Kentucky, was a victim of the 1944 epidemic.
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Doctors call Howley their poster child .
election
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There were election posters up for the mayoral race.
girl
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Steinem became the poster girl for feminism in the 1970s because she was good-looking, smart, articulate and blatantly heterosexual.
movie
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I look at the movie poster on my wall, it's like a blip.
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They were tussling, in their cute little MBA-zombie way, over who would get which cool movie poster .
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There are four movie posters on my wall.
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No movie posters , no multi-lingual Telecom ads, no London Transport signs.
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Drying off after a shower, I stood looking at two framed movie posters on the bathroom wall.
■ VERB
become
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Steinem became the poster girl for feminism in the 1970s because she was good-looking, smart, articulate and blatantly heterosexual.
cover
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A lady on his floor covered her door with posters of saints.
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By now the campus is covered with posters .
design
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George Underwood designed the poster and 50 people turned up.
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Maybe Jackson Pollack would design the poster .
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General Design a poster or leaflet which would encourage people to eat more potatoes.
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Children were asked to design an interpretative poster which highlighted the vulnerability and needs of Britain's threatened otter population.
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David designed the first poster for our first Sunday evening and stuck it up outside the pub.
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He had not designed a poster since 1949 but in 1954 his interest in this art form revived.
hung
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The walls were hung with posters and drawings with a Parisian flavour.
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They hung posters to hide the cracks.
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I carefully hung the poster so Bob could see it from his bed without turning.
produce
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Now he plans to produce a poster of the garden to sell.
put
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Inside the ticket hall, a team of volunteers were putting up posters .
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She had put posters up everywhere, of places she had been to and places she wanted to go to.
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Consider the implications of: Do we really want to know who put up the poster ?
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Tell your friends and put up the enclosed poster where it will be seen.
putt
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Inside the ticket hall, a team of volunteers were putting up posters .
see
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For details, see the poster in the church porch.
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Now we see everything from famous-artist poster prints to teacup patterns.
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He hadn't seen any posters in the village.
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I haven't seen a single poster for this bloody show.
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She may be encouraged if she sees a poster on the wall about Aids.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Anna's bedroom wall was covered in posters of James Dean and Marilyn Monroe.
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Ernst's supporters have plastered his election posters over walls and cars.
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Sandra collects old movie posters.
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There are posters for the Van Gogh exhibition everywhere.
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Two of her photos became posters for the Monterey Jazz festival.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A couple of years later he graduated to sticking up posters to advertise concerts.
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Cream voile has been lavishly draped around the metal four- poster bedstead to make an attractive centrepiece.
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Fast by the seminar and poster standards, this was unacceptably slow to the scientific community involved.
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George Underwood designed the poster and 50 people turned up.
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He sits under the strike posters shuffling papers.
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I carefully hung the poster so Bob could see it from his bed without turning.
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Photographs, framed posters, the odd award statuette.
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The environmental organization had written to all the country's general practitioners in January offering a health education poster and booklet.