noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a football ground/stadium (= a place where football is played )
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Hundreds of fans were making their way towards the football ground.
Emirates Stadium, the
stadium audiences
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Celine Dion's tour continues to play to sold-out stadium audiences across Europe.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
national
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Both play in their country's national stadium , the grounds subjected to substantial renovations in recent years.
new
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This summer, just down the road from Dortmund, their rivals Schalke 04 will open a new stadium .
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Not even our three spring-training teams and that gorgeous new stadium !
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Taxpayers are likelier to get better value if the new stadium is negotiated calmly and as part of a wider urban-development plan.
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As in, if the city of Miami and Dade County build him a new stadium with a retractable dome.
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Bud Adams, the Houston oilman who owns the Oilers, wanted a new stadium , not a renovation.
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The Packers are owned by their fans, so the city can not be held hostage for a new stadium .
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Detroit voted to tax itself for a new baseball stadium .
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Ideally, Brown said, the city should host the Super Bowl in a new football stadium , sometime shortly after 1999.
old
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The old stadium was in its penultimate year as an athletics venue.
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They won the first two at the Polo Grounds, the last pair in a cavernous old football stadium on Lake Erie.
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The old San Siro stadium , now formally called Giuseppe Meazza, became an all-seater arena holding 85,000 people.
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The commission voted last September to award naming rights for the 35-year-\#old stadium to the 49ers.
olympic
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This hurt Payne, who saw the Olympic stadium as a $ 207 million gift to the community.
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The site would be the Olympic stadium , which was heavily shelled but still stands.
■ NOUN
baseball
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Liz, Larry and Billie-Jean were among thousands who packed the Shea baseball stadium to see Elton play.
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It is exhilarating, like the first glimpse of green grass when entering a baseball stadium .
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Detroit voted to tax itself for a new baseball stadium .
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She tells them the baseball stadium is eight blocks to the north.
disaster
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At the Bradford football stadium disaster on 11 May 1985, 56 fans were killed when a stand burnt down.
football
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Male bastions like the pub, the football stadium and the military have been stormed.
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The Wigwam Resort is turning its ballroom into a football stadium with a huge rear-projection screen flanked by Roman Colosseum-like pillars.
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Other Business 1 Planning applications for football stadium developments.
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It was the recently completed football stadium that captured his imagination.
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Read in studio A public inquiry has opened into Oxford United's plans to build a twelve million pound football stadium .
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They won the first two at the Polo Grounds, the last pair in a cavernous old football stadium on Lake Erie.
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But five minutes into the film he was as possessed as when he was down at the football stadium watching a match.
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This is how the state of Maryland will fund the pro football stadium in Baltimore.
■ VERB
build
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But what if a city builds a stadium with taxpayer money and waits for the World Series?
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As in, if the city of Miami and Dade County build him a new stadium with a retractable dome.
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Look, I want the 49ers to succeed in building a new stadium in Bayview-Hunters Point.
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Monday, Mayor Brown said he was prepared to offer the 49ers land and cash to help build a stadium .
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The Dodgers are talking of building a stadium next to Dodger Stadium.
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Pass on the Super Bowl and use the money that is being raised as the start for building a new football stadium .
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The people of Tampa are going to build a new stadium for their perennially-dismal pro football team.
domed
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He stumbles through an attempt to get a domed stadium .
leave
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The two players left the stadium without comment minutes before the Press conference started.
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Michael Heenan witnessed the exchange as he was leaving the stadium at a gated area near the 49ers buses.
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He needed a police escort when he left the stadium .
open
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This summer, just down the road from Dortmund, their rivals Schalke 04 will open a new stadium .
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They open their new stadium against Aston Villa, led by old boy Ron Atkinson.
pay
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The public facilities authority raises capital by issuing taxable bonds to investors, whose money pays to renovate the stadium .
play
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It was the first such game to be played at the Sheffield stadium since 95 Liverpool fans died there in 1989.
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We didn't want to play an indoor stadium and we felt it was too soon to repeat Loch Lomond.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a baseball stadium
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Denver has a new airport, a new baseball stadium , and a reputation as a good place to live.
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The stadium has a capacity of at least 10,000.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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It was a further step in their development on the road to possible overall victory at this stadium on Sunday.
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New 150,00 watt floodlights will be installed in concrete wing walls at the four corners of the stadium .
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Perry Barr 1st Flight offers a wide, easy portage down past the sports stadium .
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Tailgaters will be grabbing orders on their way to the stadium .
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They will hand out the lunches, serve food in the suites and staff food stations in the stadium .
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Well-placed league sources say such a deal would be no problem, provided the new stadium actually were built.