I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a season ticket (= one that allows you to make a journey or go to a sports stadium, theatre etc as often as you like during a fixed time period )
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He has a season ticket for Manchester United.
breeding season
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Open-sea fish lay several million eggs each breeding season .
close season
closed season
growing season
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The growing season is from April to September.
high season
lambing season
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the lambing season
low season
open season
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the open season for deer
peak season
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Hotel prices rise during the peak season .
rainy season
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the rainy season
season ticket holder (= someone who owns a season ticket )
season ticket
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an annual season ticket
shooting season
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the grouse shooting season
silly season
the Christmas season/period (= the days around and including Christmas Day )
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Most stores need extra staff during the Christmas season.
the cricket season (= the time of year when people play cricket )
the harvest season
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Orchard farmers are busiest during the September and October harvest season.
the season of goodwill (= Christmas )
the summer season
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The resort was crammed with holidaymakers for the whole of the summer season.
the tourist season (= the period in a year when large numbers of tourists visit a place )
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Even in the tourist season the beaches don’t get packed.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
close
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Albion are moving house in the close season: we just got there in time.
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He is one of nine players given winter contracts designed to prevent them seeking employment elsewhere during the close season .
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Last close season one of the small drains that I fish ran very clear.
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During the close season in 1990 the unthinkable happened.
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In a close encounter last season , Gloucester pipped Northampton by 7 points to 6.
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During the close season in 1974 a dry moat had been constructed and new barriers installed.
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Sheffield-born left-back Beresford came close to becoming a Liverpool player during the close season - until the Anfield side pulled out.
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Weekends we're usually booked up in advance, you see, even in the close season .
dry
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The lean period at the beginning of the dry season with few available fruit resources is tolerated as the marsupials store fat.
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I ordered our troops to retreat and disappear like burning grass in the dry season .
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In a dry season this prevents the soil surface drying out and enhances the germination rate.
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Then, at the beginning of the dry season , Tonle Sap river flows back to the Mekong.
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The age-old cycle of wet and dry seasons had become irrelevant.
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During the dry season , our tracks would just tear up the clay and create a cloud of red dust.
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Soon the dry season will return and food supplies will disappear.
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And after a long dry season of neutrals and minimalism, perhaps fantasy fashion is a good thing.
early
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Conferences are now big business for Blackpool, and bring extra traffic in the early and late seasons .
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Sheffield was forced to move because he was stalked for two to three months early last season .
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Some one week windsurf holidays are available in early and late season .
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Dave Libbey, another top-flight ref, has been conspicuously absent since his return from an early season injury.
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Starting dates, after two exceptionally early seasons , have returned to the more traditional early July point.
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Those who haven't taken advantage of early season low prices still have to take their hard-earned rest.
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At Edgar Street, United lost out 1-0 earlier in the season .
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After early season teething troubles, it also proved a threat to the pre-eminence of Senna's McLaren Honda.
festive
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The Chief Executive's Management Group have agreed that the same approach should be adopted for the festive season 1991/92.
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She was furious that the work could not be done during the festive season .
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We will always be grateful to the doctors and nurses who worked during the festive season , as well as all year round.
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With every good wish for the festive season and the New Year ahead.
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River Island women's range has already got party dresses in for the festive season .
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The shares had just started to recover on faint hopes of a busy festive season .
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Treat the gag programs and animated cards that tend to circulate around the festive season , with utmost caution.
high
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In high season the village brass band plays regular concerts and there are waterski displays most weeks.
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He watched Offerman commit 139 errors, including a major-league high 35 last season in 115 games.
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There is a full entertainments programme during the high season and the hotel has a taverna with frequent live music.
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Room prices range from $ 56 to $ 72 during high season to $ 29 to $ 46 during low.
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A two night self-drive weekend break from their Winter-Inn programme staying at Les Trois Mousquetaires costs £181 per person high season .
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Rooms go from $ 95 to $ 175 during high season , $ 90 to $ 160 during low.
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There is live music on the terrace in high season .
last
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Displaced Gary Connolly from centre before suffering a serious injury last season .
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Steding, who struggled much of last season , finished the game with 17 points and five assists.
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Lowndes, the club's top scorer last season , has been absent with a back injury since July.
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Overall, the roster includes 16 players who were not on the roster at the end of last season .
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Sheffield was forced to move because he was stalked for two to three months early last season .
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Sheffield received harassing phone calls most of last season .
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The 49ers were superior last season and slammed the point home in Miami.
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UMass is 4-0 against Big East foes since 1991, and it defeated Pitt, 85-57, last season in Amherst.
new
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Trees and bushes have blossomed with new life at the dawn of a new season .
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I suppose that if we include New Zealand, we can claim to have new season lamb practically all year long.
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One New York season or performance a year tended to be the rule for modern dance in the 1950s.
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My view is that most new season lamb is not worthy of the name.
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Since 1979, the race has inaugurated the new season one week before the Daytona 500.
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The narrow land drain is his favourite fishery and where better to begin the new coarse fishing season ?
rainy
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During the rainy season , Motabeng was subjected to a type of desert rain.
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About thirty years back, he said, because during the rainy season goats and sheep got foot rot.
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But we were full of enthusiasm, essential to survive that first rainy season in the forest.
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When to go: To avoid the rainy season , travel mid-December to mid-May.
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Recharge normally happens in the winter or rainy season .
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The rainy season came on and restored her to time and change.
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But now it is the rainy season there is little demand for his services.
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During the rainy season , that mountain was covered by a cloud.
regular
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Heading into the last weekend of the regular season , a record 17 out of 28 teams remain in play-off contention.
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The Giants lost seven of 11 games against Atlanta during the regular season .
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The Rapids finished the regular season losing six of their last seven.
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For his career in the regular season , Anderson has made good on 372 of 472 field-goal attempts.
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Yet, despite a disappointing regular season , the 1996 Suns expect good things in the playoffs.
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In the regular season , we beat them twice.
■ NOUN
football
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When the football season ended, these warrior bands literally vanished.
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I just told him he better bet back here before football season starts next August.
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But of course the football season hasn't ended yet.
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Gazza moved out to the villa in July to acclimatise before the football season kicked off.
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Up to this point, it has been the perfect football season in Oklahoma.
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The strong football season , however, has generated more alumni giving, albeit earmarked for athletics.
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He had no offers from Southeastern Conference schools, for whom the Mocs served as cannon fodder each football season .
holiday
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A fuel shortage got the holiday season off to a rocky start, and promises to cause further problems this month.
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Tech investors generally have been nervous for some time about semiconductor and personal-computer demand, particularly over the holiday season .
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It is intended to be on holiday season tours for at least three years.
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For the holiday season , they launched a thriving retail partnership, with Discovery Channel media centers in Nature Company stores.
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It was always the same in the holiday season .
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It was now summer, and the holiday season had begun.
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Edis was there in the holiday season , but lived at 32 Ladbroke Square, West London too.
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Fresh goose is difficult to find except for during the holiday season , but frozen goose can be purchased the year around.
summer
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In post-war years there was only a nine-minute service of Marton cars during the summer season , until it closed in 1961.
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Best claims to be willing to take groups out all year round, although the summer season is obviously more popular.
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The new collective bargaining agreement called for 10 weeks of subscription programs plus a four-week summer season .
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A programme will be produced in time for the summer season and Welcome will continue to keep Friends informed.
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Unlike the trams, they are only seen during the summer season .
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In the summer season her troubles were born of her prosperity.
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Excursions During the summer season we will be organising a programme of varied optional day and half day excursions most weeks.
ticket
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But season ticket holders will not get their first discounts until January 1993.
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In all, about 15, 000 fans bought season tickets before a December 1988 deadline.
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For £14.50 you can buy a season ticket to last four months.
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And an indication of growing support was the much-improved sales of three-guinea season tickets , totalling £1,100.
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His Diamondbacks sold 44, 000 season tickets without having a team assembled.
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Meanwhile, season ticket holders will likely be listed as creditors in the team's bankruptcy filings.
■ VERB
finish
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Chapman aimed to finish the season among the top five so that his players would qualify for bonuses under a new League scheme.
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Richardson, at 6-8, was the tallest player to finish the season but is not known for offense or quickness.
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But this was an excellent match to finish the season .
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He finished the regular season with 2, 575 yards on 200-of-314 passing.
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Missouri clinched a bowl berth by finishing the regular season with a 7-4 record.
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Brewer hopes to finish the season with Otago, but is uncertain about his playing future in Canterbury.
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However, the 37-year-old third baseman also finished the regular season in a terrible slump.
open
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It sent a message to law enforcement officers: Open season on immigrants.
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I opened the outdoor season in style, beating Mike McFarlane in the Middlesex Championships.
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Memorial Day becomes the grand opening of the barbecue season .
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When I opened my own season in Ulm with Tannhäuser, I had in my head an entirely new sound concept.
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Trotter opened his season with interception return for a touchdown in a 41-14 win over Dallas and went from there.
play
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Oh, they still have eight games to play this season .
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Palmeiro and his teammates still were experiencing palpitations after surviving to play another day this season .
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Negotiations for the player's £60,000 transfer to Parkhead are ongoing with Bangor insisting that Byrne plays out the season here.
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Indeed Leinster have already ruled that all their Senior One games must be played on synthetic this season .
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His surgeon, Richard Steadman of Vail, Colo., told him not to try to play again this season .
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I think it was the most relaxed and confident I've seen Leeds play so far this season .
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That Magic Johnson will play another season and obscure the Clippers more than ever.
start
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Ritchie has made only eight starts this season .
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Some people blamed the soft camp for a 1-3 start this season .
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Alikhan made 963 at 31, and is likely to start the season as Bicknell's opening partner.
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Problems started in the first season , the lawsuit said, when Campbell consistently turned down Lawrence for dates.
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He started the season with Dunlop tyres and this was only his third race with Michelin.
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Walker started the last two seasons as right tackle for the Gators, but worked his first season on the left side.
win
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But just to say we had a winning season with a 42-40 record?
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Crosfields are still without a league win this season and now occupy bottom place in the league after their defeat at Rosebridge.
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Before Wolf and Holmgren arrived for the 1992 season , the Packers had just four winning seasons in 24 years.
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They've only lost 3 at home, but Derby, Luton and Brentford have won there this season .
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The win was critical for Purdue because it ensured the Boilers of a winning regular-season.
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The last time the Tigers had a winning season was in 1983.
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The Saints won it last season with a score of 108.90 to Homestead's 108.025.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
off period/season etc
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In 1967, he began spending the off season working as an assistant to one of California Gov.
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Q: What do you do in the off season?
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She worked in the store's office during the off season while attending Indiana.
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The remaining truffles are boiled for sterilization and canned for sale as truffles and as truffle juice during the off season.
open season (on sb)
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In the press, it seems to be open season on overpaid executives.
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It is open season for criticising UDCs for lack of planning, lack of strategic thinking and short termism.
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Payroll allocations can be changed only during an open season.
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That's the West Coast Trail, limited to 8,000 hikers during its open season from mid-April to the end of September.
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The grin meant it was open season.
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There would be an open season on scattered singletons.
the compliments of the season
the festive season/period/holiday
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River Island women's range has already got party dresses in for the festive season.
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She was furious that the work could not be done during the festive season.
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The Chief Executive's Management Group have agreed that the same approach should be adopted for the festive season 1991/92.
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The food smelled good to her, reflecting the festive holiday preparation.
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We will always be grateful to the doctors and nurses who worked during the festive season, as well as all year round.
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With every good wish for the festive season and the New Year ahead.
the holiday season
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Sales were up during the holiday season.
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We'll get together after the holidays .
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A fuel shortage got the holiday season off to a rocky start, and promises to cause further problems this month.
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For the holiday season, they launched a thriving retail partnership, with Discovery Channel media centers in Nature Company stores.
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Fresh goose is difficult to find except for during the holiday season, but frozen goose can be purchased the year around.
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It was always the same in the holiday season.
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It was now summer, and the holiday season had begun.
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Staff at St Tiggywinkles say the holiday season is bad news for wildlife because it means more cars in the countryside.
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Tech investors generally have been nervous for some time about semiconductor and personal-computer demand, particularly over the holiday season.
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This road is solid with unyielding traffic for the duration of the holiday season.
the silly season
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Foxes become very noisy at the height of the mating season .
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Smith should own the record outright by the third or fourth game of the 2001 season .
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The Bulls would consider re-signing him next season .
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The Lakers need to work on their defense this season .
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The latest challenge is to promote the LSO's winter concert season .
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The network has several new dramas lined up for the fall season .
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When does the baseball season start?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Although around 12 eggs in a season is normal, one female observed during filming of a television programme laid 25.
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Fiddlehead season runs from April to June, depending on locale.
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He was phoning to wish us all the best for the season , which was really nice.
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Match receipts and season tickets brought in 5.7m.
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Phillies catching prospect Eric Schreimann spent part of the last two seasons playing for the Boll Weevils.
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Some had other jobs, although their lives tended to be bleak out of tourist season .
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The season is a marathon, not a sprint.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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The run on unpretentious style and seasoned finishes has been a boon for the purveyors of shelter chic.