I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be refused bail
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Relatively few defendants are refused bail.
be refused membership (= not be accepted as a member )
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She was refused membership of the club because she was a woman.
categorically deny/refuse etc sth
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He has categorically denied his guilt all along.
refuse disposal formal ( also rubbish disposal British English garbage disposal American English ) (= getting rid of things people throw out of houses, shops etc )
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Refuse disposal is the responsibility of county councils.
refuse sb credit
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You may be refused credit if you have a bad financial record.
refuse to admit sth
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He refused to admit that it was his fault.
refuse to co-operate
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If you refuse to co-operate , I’ll kill you.
refuse to obey
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Many people felt the law was unfair, and refused to obey it.
refuse (your) consent
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When the firm applied for consent to build on the site, it was refused.
refused admission
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The young men tried to enter a nightclub but were refused admission .
refused point-blank
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He refused point-blank to identify his accomplices.
refused to disclose
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He refused to disclose the identity of the politician.
refused to talk
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Even under torture, Maskell refused to talk .
refuse/deny sb a visa
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The Lebanese embassy refused him a visa.
refuse/deny (sb) entry (= stop someone entering )
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He was refused entry to the club because he was wearing trainers.
refuse/deny (sb) permission
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Betty's father refused her permission to attend the dance.
refuse/reject a request ( also turn down sb’s request )
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He rejected their request for a meeting.
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This request was turned down because of the cost.
refuse/reject/turn down an application (= say no to an application )
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Their planning application was rejected because of a lack of parking facilities.
refuse/turn down an invitation ( also decline an invitation formal )
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She turned down an invitation to take part in a televised debate.
tax/ticket/debt/refuse collector
turn down/refuse/reject/decline an offer (= say no to it )
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She declined the offer of a lift.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
still
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It still refuses to join the United Nations, though it is happy to welcome its free-spending bureaucracies in Geneva.
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Imam Malik still refused to take back his words.
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It still refuses to join peacekeeping operations in less harmonious countries.
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Mulholland, of course, knew this, but still refused to build the dam at Long Valley.
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Campaigners against the arms trade also voiced concern that the Government is still refusing to allow Parliament proper scrutiny of exports.
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And immigration is still refusing to see that this man deserves consideration for his sacrifice.
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I do about three hundred sit-ups a day and it still refuses to firm up, but what else can I do?
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Two kids still refused to write unless I helped them right then and there.
■ NOUN
offer
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Maybe he's moonlighting on an offer he couldn't refuse .
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The offer of food was refused but food came anyway.
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Please contact the Office if you are interested-no reasonable offer will be refused !
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As the bribe would hardly benefit a dead man, not surprisingly the offer was refused .
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It was so hot and dry, another party on Gimer made us an offer we couldn't refuse .
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And make him an offer he couldn't refuse .
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Stratton was presented with an offer he could hardly refuse .
permission
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Had he refused her permission to marry?
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However, one month after this deadline Judge Gilbert Thiel in Nancy refused permission for the objects to leave the city.
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He faced up to the notorious Chelsea Boot Boys with an electrified fence but was refused permission to switch it on.
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Members of the economic development and planning subcommittee voted to refuse planning permission after a site visit yesterday.
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The reasons for the Council's decision to refuse permission for the development are set out in the attached schedule.
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In another case, the committee has refused permission for health authorities to link their computer files with personal tax records.
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The council says a holy coal house doesn't qualify as a home improvement and has refused planning permission .
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Furthermore, an applicant who had been refused planning permission could appeal to the ministry.
request
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The driver refused her requests for his number, and dumped her at the next stop.
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A judge refused last week a request by rival insurers to remove the Pennsylvania regulator from ruling on the case.
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It has refused the Cree's request for an undertaking not to commence logging until their outstanding land claim has been settled.
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To date, the Planning Department has refused the request , choosing instead to prepare a brief addendum.
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The small number of refused requests may appear unusual.
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But the judge refused a prosecution request to keep the accused rapist in jail by increasing his bail to $ 1 million.
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Technically she might also refuse a request for a dissolution, although it is hard to imagine her ever doing so.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
flatly refuse/deny/oppose etc sth
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He flatly refuses any offers of financial help.
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He never refuses a drink, does he?
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He tried to persuade her to come with him, but she refused.
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He was unable to attend the meeting in Moscow, because the Russian authorities had refused him a visa.
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I asked Stevie if she would help us, but she refused.
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If they refuse to leave, call the police.
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Judge Eyck refused his request for bail.
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Mother flatly refused to see the doctor.
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Ms. Knight refused to accept the manager's apology.
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Over 2,000 applications for political asylum were refused last year.
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Some banks are threatening to refuse loans to anyone who cannot provide suitable guarantees.
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Sutton refused food in protest against conditions in the prison.
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The church refused to give legitimacy to the new state.
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The city is refusing contracts to firms that do not practice an equal opportunities policy.
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The offer was so good how could I refuse ?
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Under the law, doctors cannot refuse patients access to their own medical records.
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You wouldn't refuse an old friend a favour, would you?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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It is understood that a number of applications for advance clearance under s 707 for such arrangements have been refused.
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Players were pressing and self-doubt was evident, especially when shots refused to drop.
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She refused his advances and confounded a multitude of scholars assembled by him to overcome her scruples.
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The 1976 Act also makes a radical change as regards the grounds for granting or refusing an application for a licence.
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The charge was dropped when Lewinksy refused to testify.
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The committee was forcing Dozoretz to attend Thursday's hearing to publicly refuse to testify.
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The following day, doctors at Great Ormond Street Hospital refused to operate because the parents had not given consent.
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Via his lawyer, Sam refused to give Clare money because he didn't want a divorce.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
domestic
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As with domestic refuse , the problems of methane gas generation also exist when disposing of industrial waste underground.
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This was made up of the organic residues of farms, forestry, industry and domestic refuse .
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Unlike habitation sites, they have little domestic refuse and, unlike cemetery sites, they do not normally contain burials.
■ NOUN
collection
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A number of local authorities, for example, put out refuse collection to private tender.
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The main tasks of the non-metropolitan districts were concerned with housing and basic services such as street cleaning and refuse collection .
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But it was opposed by the Senate's Environment Committee, industry, local authority refuse collection agencies and environmentalists.
collector
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Aylesbury's refuse collectors are out on the job around seven hours a day.
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This was demonstrated in the resettlement of Vila Planetario, a squatter settlement of refuse collectors in the centre of the city.
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Many were formed from the grouping together of small refuse collectors .
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Whether one considers lawyers and doctors as more important than farm labourers and refuse collectors is simply a matter of opinion.
household
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This aims to reduce the mounting flood of household refuse , which currently stands at 70 million tonnes a year.
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Talk is of household refuse trains going back to the moth-balled Gobowen to Nanbrynmawr line - from Manchester.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Refuse collection has been seriously affected by the strike.
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facilities for recycling household refuse
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Heaps of decaying refuse littered every street.
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We are gradually developing safer and more effective methods of refuse disposal.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Paul's guide to this mighty sauce is three large refuse sacks of breadcrumbs to 60 pints of milk.
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The colonies were a disposal area for social refuse .
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This was made up of the organic residues of farms, forestry, industry and domestic refuse .
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Workers on Monday mucked out basement and main-floor refuse left by the water.