I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
answer
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We answer three of your queries about getting hair into tip-top condition.
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It gives clear detailed instructions, answers queries and suggests ways to improve your technique.
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The Bank staff are there to help you, answer your queries or take details of your complaint.
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Please note: We can not answer queries personally and no correspondence will be entered into.
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Our advisory services answer thousands of queries from people all over the country.
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I can't do much to answer your queries about Kaama.
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Station and telephone enquiry bureaux can answer queries on individual services.
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Gold Seal unit I should be grateful if you could answer a few technical queries for me.
respond
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It can be helpful to limit your reading time, allowing time for taking notes, or responding to queries .
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Some three weeks later they are still responding to queries and will continue to send out packs.
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The Orientalia Division of the Library of Congress promptly responded to my queries .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I would be happy to answer people's queries if they write to me at my home address.
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If anyone has a query I'll deal with it at the end of the meeting.
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Menlo angrily replied to a query from a reporter.
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One of the students raised a query about the marking system.
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Since the TV programme the advice bureau has received lots of queries about maternity rights.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Another rather unusual query ... Is it possible to make your own garden gnomes - by casting them?
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On major and minor issues you should give fair answers to queries about the job to avoid misunderstandings and resentment later on.
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Seers galore will be on hand to shed a little light on those and other troubling queries at the Renaissance Psychic Fair.
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The query command is shown in Figure 3.13 along with an example of its results in Figure 3.14.
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The query seems like a jolt of reality, following stories Mrs Clinton has been telling of her college days.
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We can obtain top management replies to your queries.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Not one of the customers queried liked the service.
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The manager queried the figures.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Derbyshire folk may query the authenticity of this but I defy them not to enjoy the results.
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I've always made the list out and you've never queried it before, well not like that.
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I could have queried whether the castle was going to be part of an entire medieval town.
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If you have any queries our team will be happy to help.
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Those bold enough to query the official faith risk detention and death.
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When I queried this I learned that Microwriter no longer employed a press officer.
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Why do we not query everything, even the act of querying itself?