I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a cash prize (= a prize that is money )
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The winner will get a cash prize of £10,000.
a prized/treasured possession (= one that is very important to you )
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One of my most treasured possessions is a small book of prayers.
booby prize
consolation prize
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Ten runners-up received a T-shirt as a consolation prize.
door prize
prize day
prize draw
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Congratulations! You have been entered into our £100,000 prize draw !
prize/award/medal etc winner
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a Nobel prize winner
receive a prize/award/gift etc
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He went up to receive his award from the mayor.
win/take first prize
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She won first prize in a painting competition.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
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My essay wins a big prize .
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The big prize in village cricket will be won by a central south side.
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For wherever the Coopers have gone, ice hockey's biggest prize , the Heineken Championship, has followed.
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Never mind, Mark had still won the biggest prize of all.
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Mandalay, the rebels' biggest prize , was recaptured in April.
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A great number of small prizes rather than just one or two big prizes gives more winners and more satisfaction.
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And they won a big prize - nowadays it would be the price of a family car.
grand
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Cake and white elephant stalls plus a grand prize draw.
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Oh, well, Democrats won the grandest prize but the Republicans raised the most cash.
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Not only do I never win the grand prize in these raffles.
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The New West up at Ina and I-10 offers a $ 3, 000 grand prize at their bash!
great
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All visitors have a chance to win some great health prizes .
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There came Stalin, for whom the really great prize of power was unobstructed enjoyment of murder.
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That will be a great prize if we can achieve it.
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Further, as it becomes more and more the administrative center of Empire, it becomes a greater prize .
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Then, there's the chance of a gold run, slightly more complicated, but with great prizes at the end.
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Not that Sanchez is any great prize .
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Our friend Drummle has won a great prize !
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But Tan Son Nhut was the greatest prize for the North.
major
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Winning a major prize in a competition is something people only dream of.
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It was Aamodt's fourth successive race victory and gave him the title for the discipline, if not the major prize .
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I've a feeling he thrives on such reactions, and this is why he won a major prize .
rich
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Sutton's reward was a cheque for $ 1m, the richest prize in golf.
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Her surviving crew members, rich with prize money, are unprepared, perhaps, for what lies ahead -- peace.
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Toulouse would be a rich prize and it would have been foolish to allow the claim to drop.
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Despite the Midland's many failings, it is still a rich prize for Hongkong Bank.
special
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Each month, the writer of the best letter will receive a special book prize .
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For the exceptional practitioner of self-denial a special prize is in store.
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This does not have to have been the winning of some special prize or coming first in every race.
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The jury for drama handed out a pair of special prizes .
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Entrants for the Cup need not be members, but the 100K Association will award special prizes for members.
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Tony Wildy was the surprised recipient of a special prize .
top
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With this project, he won the top prize in a course competition.
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A turnover of £1.5 billion a year would produce a weekly prize payout of £14 million with one top prize.
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Name three features of Beaver's top quality competition prize . 3.
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As if to prove it, our green-fingered experts have again picked up the top prizes in Aberdeen district council's gardening competition.
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This was the Mashers Cup, the top prize for the day for the overall winner of the two rounds.
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There would be more chance of winning the £200,000 top prize .
■ NOUN
booby
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It could only be because she thought they'd win a kind of booby prize .
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If they were giving out prizes for what you do in bed he'd have come away with the booby prize.
cash
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The best mural patterns will be awarded cash prizes from the district and Petersfield Town Council.
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There are cash prizes and the prestigious Harry Gerrard Cup to be won.
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Readers' original gardening tips Another batch of £50 cash prizes are winging their way to this month's top tipsters.
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Top awards are given for the best net and best gross scores with over £200 in cash prizes .
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Winning teams at this venue receive a cash prize .
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This is open to painters, printers and sculptors and over £6,000 worth of cash prizes are to be awarded.
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And, with up to five dividends payable, even with six or seven score draws you could collect a big cash prize .
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Winners of this year's competition will take over the education page for a day and pick up a £200 cash prize .
consolation
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Hendry, who compiled a clearance of 123 in the tenth frame, collected the consolation prize of £14,000.
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The consolation prize for picking four of six numbers in Lotto also is predetermined.
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A merger with Rediffusion for the weekday contract was a consolation prize for them both.
draw
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Our next prize draw will take place on 31 May - remember each entry is eligible.
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There will also be a free prize draw with £100, £50 and £25 Guinness vouchers on offer.
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A prize draw was held regularly, and winners were awarded specially designed T shirts.
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Some local authorities have been very effective at this - in Greenwich, people who registered were entered in a prize draw .
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The festival organisers will give away one free ballon ride a day in a prize draw .
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Ministers aim to widen interest by running a host of smaller competitions alongside the £1 million-a-week prize draw .
fund
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Most of the leading Ulster players will participate and with Carslberg underwriting the championships the prize fund has been increased.
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The winner will receive £1,500 from a prize fund of £7,700.
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Another argument is that the planned £250,000 prize fund guarantees the players, as well as administrators, a bumper tournament.
money
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Premier event with over £10,000 in prize money plus pools and trophies worth an extra £6,000.
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It may seem a little loopy that computer gamers have a league of their own, with six-figure prize money to boot.
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The tournament returns to Royal Lytham in July and carries prize money of £220,000.
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An Olympic title would yield $ 65, 000 in prize money , more than tripling his current annual income.
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Dessie won the Gold Cup at Cheltenham in 1989 and in his career won £500,000 in prize money .
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Her surviving crew members, rich with prize money , are unprepared, perhaps, for what lies ahead -- peace.
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Total prize money in 1975 was just £700,000 a figure that Nick Faldo has exceeded on his own this year.
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Apart from anything else she was unemployed and they needed the two thousand pounds prize money .
peace
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The eighty-three year old Nobel Peace prize winner is currently on a nationwide tour.
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Forged papers were sent to the Nobel committee in 1982 in an effort to stop him from winning its peace prize .
winner
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The impending retirement of Mr Arias, Nobel prize winner and the main motivator, has increased uncertainty.
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He ended up with a prize winner .
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The prize winner will be notified by phone. 5.
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Gazette reserves the right to publish at our discretion a photograph of the prize winner . 6.
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The eighty-three year old Nobel Peace prize winner is currently on a nationwide tour.
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The prize winners will be notified by post within 8 weeks of the closing date. 8.
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The first prize winners are: Neil Glaister, of Spennymoor.
■ VERB
award
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Fortunately the judges agreed, and awarded it the first prize .
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Einstein was awarded the Nobel prize for his contribution to quantum theory.
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That's why we award Ig Nobel prizes .
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Entrants for the Cup need not be members, but the 100K Association will award special prizes for members.
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Reducing taxes, reducing rents, awarding more prizes on the trust fund, reducing administrative charges, reducing insurance fund contributions?
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He awarded it third prize and walked away.
collect
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On the other hand, if it delays too long, a rival bird may have collected the prize .
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The tie and jacket are for stand-ups and collecting prizes .
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A local boys' club will collect the £650 prize .
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The boys involved were not allowed to collect any end-of-term prizes .
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Hendry, who compiled a clearance of 123 in the tenth frame, collected the consolation prize of £14,000.
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Numbers were quickly drawn and the lucky winners came forward to collect their prize from the manufacturers and dealers who donated them.
give
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Perhaps they were giving prizes to Mandy Rice-Davies-type men.
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He was right about this last point, but only because the other four voted to give the prize to another candidate.
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Jonny was given first prize and a cheque for £750 for the novelty of his idea and professional presentation.
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A reconditioned 1950 model tractor will be given as a door prize .
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If they were giving out prizes for what you do in bed he'd have come away with the booby prize.
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I have had to stoop to pocketing the money the Supporters' Club give for raffle prizes .
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We usually start by looking through the Yellow Pages and ringing up companies to ask if they will give donations and prizes .
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Provide paints and give a prize for the best-decorated egg.
offer
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Today we're offering 100 prizes of £50 to help you do just that.
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One, they offer large prizes .
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We never offer recording contracts as prizes , although we are constantly asked to do so.
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The prizes are the products described on this page; no cash substitute will be offered .
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If you can offer a raffle prize or give a donation towards this please let Cicely Harris know as soon as possible.
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Most of our competitions offer moderate prizes which may be taken advantage of by staff in all parts of the company.
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Organisers said that the successful bidder would lunch with the governor who had offered the prize .
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He succeeds in the game and the goldfish offers him a prize .
present
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At the packed dinner afterwards the President, Mr. Andy Heffernan presented the prizes .
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Demonstrators are called to the microphone to be presented with their prizes and there's lots of hugging and kissing.
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He knew very well he wasn't up there to be presented with a prize .
receive
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The best tip of the year will receive a prize to the value of £500.
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The following year, Lee and Yang received the Nobel prize for their idea.
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Morgan received a Nobel prize in 1933, and Muller in 1946.
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The first 200 correct winners out of the postbag on Monday, September 14 will receive prizes .
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The winner will receive £1,500 from a prize fund of £7,700.
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The winning team will receive prizes of office equipment worth thousands of pounds to be used by its respective company.
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Second and third receive tankards and money prizes .
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I received £300 prize money and a three foot tall trophy.
share
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Huggins shared a Nobel prize in 1966 with Peyton Rous.
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Instead, Midlands and Lothian shared the prize with two wins apiece.
take
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He took the prize and held it as if it were a page of Gutenberg Bible.
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The meat producer McKechnie Jess took the prize for best small manufacturing company.
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In spite of his deafness he was an outstanding pupil, taking the principal prizes in mathematics and science.
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But Budweiser takes the top prize with one particular ad.
win
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All visitors have a chance to win some great health prizes .
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Jovellanos won the prize for his play, El delincuente honrado.
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I've a feeling he thrives on such reactions, and this is why he won a major prize .
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Horton Foote wins the prize for drama, and the fiction prize goes to Carol Shields.
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His characterless Seventh Symphony won a Lenin prize .
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I know that her proudest moment was when she won a prize in high school in 1929, for writing.
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Jane Stemp won a £50 prize in the 1989 National Poetry Competition.
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The best costume wins an authentic Tick prize autographed by Tick creator Ben Edlund.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
first prize/place
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First prize was an award of $ 1, 500 for the biggest female killed during the year.
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Even though Ausmus should never have been sent away in the first place.
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In the first place, it deals with those elements in human nature which are timeless.
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In the first place, it involves some actual power of control over the thing possessed.
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In the first place, it was relativist; it proclaimed no value system as its basis; it lacked normative quality.
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It is the towering, 103-foot cross atop city parkland that landed the measure on the ballot in the first place.
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My family, my household, and my job all demand first place in my life!
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This assumes that banks have surplus liquidity in the first place.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A list of prize winners will appear in net week's issue.
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First prize is a trip to Orlando.
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New York State, with 33 votes in the electoral college, is seen as a major prize .
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Second prize is a book token.
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She's going to marry Simon, but I don't think he's much of a prize .
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She won the Booker Prize for her novel 'The Blind Assassin'.
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The prize is a 3-week holiday in the Bahamas.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All this, special guests and fabulous prizes, too.
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In fact, there's a prize for the person who can find a Colin Chapman in the most Lotus-like position.
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It was as if the mere presence of the prize made each man doubt his own wisdom.
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The prize for the year's best book other than fiction goes to Gwyn Thomas and Margaret Jones for their third collaboration.
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Their prize was a new Champion bass boat and Evinrude engine.
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There are no prizes for guessing why this should be.
II. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
money
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With trophies and prize money totalling over £3000 this event promises to be spectacular and exciting to both rider and spectators alike.
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He said he plans to use the prize money to establish a college fund for his 9-year-old son.
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So Petey, what are you going to do with the prize money ?
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And what will you do with the prize money , Professor?
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These words proved prophetic, for the prize money was never claimed.
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Aside from that, she lives off the prize money she earns.
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Since then, Clearing House has awarded more than $ 92 million in prize money .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a herd of prize cattle
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one of the team's prize players
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Escamillo became a swaggering prize fighter named Husky Miller.
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Now he wanted the prize possession of my autograph.
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There is an idea for a classroom project, an easy to enter prize competition plus a special cartoon.
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Three prize players were in school working to become eligible next season.
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With trophies and prize money totalling over £3000 this event promises to be spectacular and exciting to both rider and spectators alike.
III. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
highly
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The affluent viewers who watch financial news are highly prized by advertisers.
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It was something else to tell that to a highly prized research scientist, engineer, or computer programmer.
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Fasting produced intense dreams and the capacity to dream was highly prized .
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The AK47 was a highly prized souvenir and frequently traded by frontline troops to those in the rear for choice booty.
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Its fish are highly prized , and the fish soup from Szeged has until now been a national delicacy.
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Swallows' nests were highly prized delicacies.
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Academic freedom in higher education is something we prize highly .
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And nothing is more highly prized than fiscal responsibility.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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This culture prizes conformity, and frowns on any form of rebellion.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All kinds of birds and fish were also fair game, with parrots being particularly prized prey.
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Bank pressures already have forced them to sell off 30 prized purebred heifers to raise money to pay back debt.
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But in this new conception of death people found a new conception of life, prized anew for its own intrinsic worth.
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I can not completely conform in this culture that prizes conformity so I might as well act as freely as I wish.
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Silver and gold are rare and were prized for their monetary value, appearance and resistance to corrosion.
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Their top of the range shoes are highly prized by fashion-conscious youngsters ... and can cost 70 pounds a pair and upwards.
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Then choose one of your prized life achievements and write about how you achieved it.