I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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great
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But, according to Williams, this argument gives utilitarian methods greater prestige and a greater role in decision-making than they actually deserve.
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Such organizations provide opportunities to work with well-known attorneys on major cases for major clients and carry great prestige .
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Traditionally, public university degrees have carried far greater social prestige .
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It has great prestige , both nationally and internationally.
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Any hopes, however, that Eisenhower would use his great prestige to restrain McCarthy were soon dashed.
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Some firms may have grown in an unplanned, unforeseen manner, others may have expanded in order to acquire greater prestige and so on.
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But the greater the prestige and reputation of an institution, the more it will recruit from the upper echelons of society.
high
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Children are forced into the rat race for higher salary and prestige .
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For most estimators, advancement takes the form of higher pay and prestige .
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The position of leader-manager in the kibbutz carries authority, and commands high prestige .
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Voluntary work tends to carry higher prestige than paid work.
international
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Other forms of information are required for the purposes of international prestige .
personal
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Clearly Oswiu experienced a tremendous increase in personal power and prestige following his victory at the Winwaed.
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To present his policy to the outside world and defuse opposition to it, he made brilliant use of his personal prestige .
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By virtue of his unique personal prestige , he himself was relatively insulated from the pressure of public opinion.
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Roosevelt failed to put his personal prestige behind it and discrimination continued, especially in the South.
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Pride, even personal prestige , were also at stake.
social
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Since women in general have less social prestige than men, this in itself tends to reinforce negative attitudes to the elderly.
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In many similar households, sons of some social prestige and standing were at least nominally subject to their fathers' authority.
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Traditionally, public university degrees have carried far greater social prestige .
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The wealthy Detroit property developer of shopping malls enjoyed the social prestige of owning the world's largest auction house.
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Economic reward, political power and social prestige all flow from the structure of classes.
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University-trained lawyers dominated the civil service but only the highest posts gave social prestige .
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project
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Revenue can then be switched to other items, such as military hardware, or so-called prestige projects .
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They will also switch spending from their day-to-day Budgets to rail, road, communications and other prestige projects .
■ VERB
carry
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Traditionally, public university degrees have carried far greater social prestige .
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Such organizations provide opportunities to work with well-known attorneys on major cases for major clients and carry great prestige .
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Voluntary work tends to carry higher prestige than paid work.
enhance
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The victory at Sluys enhanced Edward's military prestige , but he was unable to follow it up.
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Law professor Derek Bell has even argued that black intellectuals disavow militants in order to enhance their prestige with whites.
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The sums that will pass through them ought surely to enhance their prestige , and at a symbolic time.
enjoy
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The wealthy Detroit property developer of shopping malls enjoyed the social prestige of owning the world's largest auction house.
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Most of the good performers in the international search companies enjoy the prestige of being part of a large firm.
gain
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Because of this, a household obliged to sponsor many feasts gains no prestige , but becomes rather an object of pity.
lose
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But the court has lost some of its prestige , Broussard said.
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Becoming a film star confers status, power, prestige and wealth.
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Hosting the Olympic Games would add to our country's international prestige .
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Many are worried the current scandal could damage the mayor's prestige .
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The teaching profession has lost the prestige it had in former times.
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Are these professors really more substantially more knowledgeable, there, is there substantially more prestige attached to this?
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But secondly, it is once more a means by which prestige and honour can be maintained.
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In the second place, hypercorrection often involves imitating what is thought to be prestige language.
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One after the other the towers of prestige and glamour were falling to him.
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Over a million square feet of prestige industrial and commercial premises under construction or being planned.
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The objects of competition varied: the traditional ones were territory, wealth, prestige and the power which these gave.
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The Olympic prestige attached to his sport made it impossible for him to walk away.
II. adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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champagne, caviar, truffles and other prestige goods
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There are always prestige neighbourhoods where only the wealthy or successful can afford to live.