I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a seal/stamp of approval (= official approval )
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You must not make decisions without your manager’s seal of approval.
a stamp/coin/book/glass etc collection
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an impressive Roman coin collection
date stamp
establish/assert/impose/stamp your authority (= show people that you have authority )
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The new manager was anxious to establish her authority.
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Robertson quickly stamped his authority on the team.
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The State Department pressed him to take bolder steps to assert his authority.
first-class stamp/mail/post etc
food stamp
postage stamp
rubber stamp
stamp collecting
stamp duty
stamp out corruption (= stop it completely )
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The party's chairman called for action to stamp out corruption.
stamp your feet (= bang them noisily on the ground )
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He stamped his feet in an attempt to keep warm.
stamped addressed envelope
stamped, self-addressed envelope (= with your address on it so it can be sent back to you )
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Send a stamped, self-addressed envelope .
stamping ground
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
new
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Surely our new 18p stamp should not be printed as I8p with a Roman I followed by an arabic 8.
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Individuals seeking first-day cancellations of the new stamps should purchase them at a post office and place them on addressed envelopes.
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But children in their households can receive the new state-paid food stamps .
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The mob had already burnt in effigy Andrew Oliver and his new stamp office before doing some damage to his house.
official
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A 35-cent brochure on the trail is available at each site, where visitors may obtain an official stamp representing each location.
rubber
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In this domain it serves, to use the unavoidable cliche, merely as a rubber stamp .
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This fuelled Opposition fears that the committee was set up to rubber stamp massive cuts in welfare payments.
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Businesses often seek to incorporate their terms, or individual terms, by using a rubber stamp .
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Many courts rubber stamp them and those children who like being in secure units may not press to leave.
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Its runways made a distinctive pattern, a slanting cross, as if some one had slammed a rubber stamp on the scruffy countryside.
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It is difficult to think what could make the Assemblée resemble a rubber stamp more than this.
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On the surface, the veneer of an open democratic debate; underneath, the potential of a pre-determined rubber stamp .
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Parliament is seen as a rubber stamp for decisions made elsewhere.
trading
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There is uncertainty as to whether the exchange of trading stamps for goods is a sale or an exchange.
■ NOUN
class
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We will lower the limit on the Post office monopoly much closer to the level of the first class stamp .
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Your call should not cost more than a first class stamp .
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It must have been mailed a few days ago, with a second class stamp .
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It was the Saint Mary's window though, which was considered best for the first class stamp .
collection
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The value of the stamp collection should be typed in.
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I got home and for a couple of hours I worked on my stamp collection .
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I have this urge to snow you my childhood stamp collection , just that I don't have one.
collector
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We asked Gloucester's stamp collectors what they made of today's break with tradition.
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Also patron of clerics, messengers, postal workers, radio workers, stamp collectors , telecommunications workers, and television workers.
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Whilst at public school, the young Joe Strummer was an avid stamp collector .
date
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Always check the date stamp to be sure.
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The date stamp must be altered every day, as the Post Office will not accept pre- or post-dated mail.
duty
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Stamp duty Another central government tax raised on transfers of ownership is stamp duty.
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Increasing the stamp duty threshold on house sales from £30,000 to £60,000.
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Radical breaks on stamp duty are planned to entice house buyers into rundown areas.
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This means that stamp duty is assessed by reference to the highest ascertainable rent which might become payable under the lease.
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This will reduce Newco's stamp duty bill.
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The section specified that stamp duty of 50p was payable on such an instrument.
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Whichever buy-in regime applies, stamp duty is payable by Target at one-half percent on the return of the cancelled shares.
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Therefore the stamp duty on a house worth £70,000 is £700.
food
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They had no right to food stamps or unemployment benefits.
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Example: Our food stamp program is designed to improve the diets of low-income families.
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Social security, unemployment compensation, welfare, Medicare, food stamps , and public housing are examples.
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Vermont has double the percentage of people on food stamps in any given month.
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Democrats favor providing for food stamps and Supplemental Security Income.
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The department responsible for food stamps and improving conditions for the rural poor should rightfully be held to the highest human-rights standard.
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Between 1989 and 1993 the number of children receiving food stamps increased by 51 percent.
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They also qualified for food stamps and Medicare.
postage
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And postage stamps are not the only things that have gone up in price.
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She will take your cigarettes, money, paper clips, postage stamps , whatever you want to give her.
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Finally, from the 40p would be deducted the cost of the telephone call or postage stamp to make the complaint.
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And on the dining-room table were silver goblets, and a big silver tureen in which reflections lay like brilliant postage stamps .
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If and when the Post Office is privatised, will our postage stamps continue to bear a portrait of the monarch?
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All we ever did was make a little wine, print up a lot of postage stamps .
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Improbable because compared to the plump, leather-lined Bentley, a barn door has the frontal area of a postage stamp .
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In its upper right corner, where it belonged, a postage stamp had been etched in the yellow gold.
program
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Example: Our food stamp program is designed to improve the diets of low-income families.
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The bill would have made changes in the food stamp program but would have kept it under federal control.
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The Republican majority has backed away from plans to dramatically scale back the food stamp program .
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Much of the savings would come from a $ 28. 4 billion cut in the growth of the food stamp program .
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That measure would not allow states to take over the food stamp program .
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Under the Senate bill, the food stamp program would be left under the control of the federal government.
■ VERB
bear
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It did not, now, bear the stamp of Duncan on it.
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His early work, produced between 1930 and 1933, bears the stamp of sectarianism.
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In the first two weeks of January 1992, 18 more people were killed in murders bearing the stamp of death squads.
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The scheme bore the unmistakable stamp of Kurt Hahn and his trust system that Charles had seen in operation at Gordonstoun.
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How could she produce anything that bore the stamp of continuity and at the same time managed to be fresh and original?
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Wycliffe lifted out a man's wrist watch and a little wad of letters still in their envelopes and bearing foreign stamps .
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Such cheques will bear the bank's stamp and a bank official's signature on their face.
buy
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Male speaker People will have been queueing up this morning to buy these stamps .
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It makes her feel very grown-up to walk to the post office and to buy airmail stamps .
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There is not even a postcard to buy , let alone a stamp .
collect
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And he broke bones like other people collect stamps .
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Y., collected stamps and, as a high school honors student, performed science experiments on the conductivity of seawater.
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Perhaps your Pack would like to collect stamps together - why don't you ask your Brown Owl?
give
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Impressed by what he saw, the emperor gave karate his stamp of approval and at once it became very popular.
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A multiple transfer of assets may be time consuming if consents are required and may give rise to unnecessary stamp duty.
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And as for the young singers, they certainly gave the design the stamp of approval.
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They put in my real balance which was something like £7.50 - but they'd given me their stamp .
issue
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An Post has also issued a commemorative stamp to mark the event.
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Oaxaca's philatelic museum, meanwhile, announced that it would issue a stamp bearing Morales' image and signature.
pay
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The purchaser of assets will pay stamp duty at double this rate but on only part of the consideration.
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Citibank Mortgage will pay stamp duty up to a maximum of £400 and provide two years' free unemployment cover.
put
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No one has managed to put their stamp on Stockton South.
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He deserves a chance to put his own stamp on the program.
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That famous churchman Arnold of Rugby put a stamp upon independent education which helped to produce this consequence.
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What if I lick every single one of my invitations shut without putting stamps on the reply cards?
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It also opened a convention at which Mr Gore must put his own stamp on the Democratic party.
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Laurence argued that putting cartoon characters on stamps is precisely not the way to capture the imagination of children.
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Sight: Put six foreign stamps on the table.
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But every real team finds some way to put a personal stamp on its purpose.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
second-class mail/post/stamp etc
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First-class and second-class mail should be put through the machine on separate runs.
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The quantity relative for second-class stamps is 140.0, indicating an increase in numbers bought of 40%.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"Louis, get over here!" Margaret demanded with a stamp of her foot.
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a stamp in your passport
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a 32-cent stamp
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Do you save stamps?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Do not forget there is no stamp needed.
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Individuals seeking first-day cancellations of the new stamps should purchase them at a post office and place them on addressed envelopes.
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Requests for the Learning stamp should be postmarked by March 20 and the Merian prints by June 1.
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The food stamps which government provides to such families can be spent only on food.
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The material from the iron mortar boxes was washed out on to a screen and the oversize returned to the stamps.
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There is no signature silhouette or personal stamp left by color or texture.
II. verb
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■ ADVERB
around
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Giants, the epigones of Uranus, stamp around in the cold, steaming like cattle.
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Finally Baby Suggs slapped the boys' hands away from the bucket and sent Stamp around to the pump to rinse himself.
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But tonight his thoughts were stamping around his mind wearing heavy boots.
down
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He threw down the knife, turned off the gas ring and stamped down the hall.
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He stamped down on the accelerator and we flew for eight or ten blocks.
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She pictured the man stamping down through his pub, irate and duty-bound.
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Then we caught a light and he stamped down just as hard on the pedal.
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Those that sent you here have forgotten you, buried you, stamped down the earth on your memory.
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The clatter was quite effective until one of the masters stamped down on the offenders.
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A boot stamped down an inch away.
off
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And when that didn't work, he had an animated discussion with team manager Maurizio Mancini before stamping off .
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Sir John had then stamped off , muttering curses about public officials who didn't seem to care.
on
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He later said he had seen people being slapped around and stamped on by police.
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Meanwhile, though creative financing has mostly been stamped on , some councils' past ingenuity is catching up with them.
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It had London stamped on it in large letters.
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When he came off stage the violets had been kicked into the wings, stamped on by Tiger Lily's Redskins.
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Today the old-fashioned kind of graft mostly gets stamped on by a fiercely nit-picking bureaucracy.
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It is thought she may have been punched or stamped on .
out
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Using a cutter, stamp out nine leaves.
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It is something that cannot be stamped out , or stifled, or gagged, or suppressed by any means.
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Pitt was a great philanthropist and wanted to stamp out smuggling, which was rife.
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Why, then, do so many experts seek to stamp out fear?
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There were always new battles to fight, new obstacles to uproot, new heresies to stamp out .
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Once again the real estate agent stamped out of the room, muttering angrily.
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Roll thinly and stamp out 16 small leaves.
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Miguel turned away, stamping out his cigarette, facing the wall like it was his future.
■ NOUN
authority
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But for the most part, he seems to be trying to stamp his authority and conservatism on a divided Congress.
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The agenda gave Sutton a golden opportunity to stamp his authority on the paper.
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Conwy's atmospheric cluster of lofty towers and town walls, 700 years on, still stamp their authority on the landscape.
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He has three young daughters of his own, and loses no time in stamping his authority on the entire brood.
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So in came James - and he recovered from a jittery start to stamp his authority on an emphatic Liverpool win.
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This caning had its effect for the whole class knew that Miss Smith would stand no nonsense and it stamped her authority .
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With Rangers two goals up, Baxter was stamping his mazy authority on the game.
envelope
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Here there were piles of newspapers, heaps of books, manuscripts, labels, rubber stamps , envelopes .
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I enclose a stamped self-addressed envelope .
food
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The budget would soften a provision that limits able-bodied adults without children to three months of food stamps in any 36-month period.
foot
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Scrambling to his feet , he tested the floor at his feet by stamping with the heel of his uninjured leg.
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Her bare foot stamped the ground and the necklace clattered.
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Flittern Rattletrap hammered the strings of a low-throated stringed instrument, his feet stamping time.
mark
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Mr Portillo, who is favoured to become the next party leader, immediately stamped his mark on his new portfolio.
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Flesh includes every part of existence that humans have stamped their mark on.
passport
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His features relaxed and he stamped my passport .
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Emmett, an immigration officer at Gatwick airport, stamped the passports , giving their holders the right to enter Britain indefinitely.
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The woman who stamped my passport made me change money with her and she robbed me.
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She stamps his passport without a word.
postage
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But there you go, looking for the big picture on a postage stamp again.
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Coins, jewelry, postage stamps , a Matisse litho, all passed through my hands.
rubber
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The Democrats need to relocate the middle ground between rubber-stamping nominees who are unacceptable and abusing the confirmation process.
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Here there were piles of newspapers, heaps of books, manuscripts, labels, rubber stamps , envelopes.
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In the past, new members were chosen by Samaranch and his executive board and rubber-stamped by the membership.
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Policy is determined by the Prime Minister and ministers individually, and rubber-stamped by Cabinet afterwards.
■ VERB
send
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Newbridge substitute Stuart Griffiths was also sent off for stamping against Pontypridd, just six minutes after coming on.
try
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But for the most part, he seems to be trying to stamp his authority and conservatism on a divided Congress.
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I rose and tried to stamp the cramp from my feet as I heard a clatter of mops and pails.
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One of the most positive things the Catholic Church had done for screwing was trying to stamp it out.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
sb's stamping ground
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A party conference is a natural stamping ground for those who have barely four days in which to make a mark.
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It's my guess he is trying to reach his old stamping ground.
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Like Banquo's ghost her figure would be seen haunting her old stamping ground.
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This raises the question: where is the natural stamping ground for experienced lawyers with case management skills?
second-class mail/post/stamp etc
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First-class and second-class mail should be put through the machine on separate runs.
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The quantity relative for second-class stamps is 140.0, indicating an increase in numbers bought of 40%.
stamping ground
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A party conference is a natural stamping ground for those who have barely four days in which to make a mark.
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But not your place, of course: we're a good four hundred light years from your usual stamping grounds .
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It's my guess he is trying to reach his old stamping ground .
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Like Banquo's ghost her figure would be seen haunting her old stamping ground .
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This raises the question: where is the natural stamping ground for experienced lawyers with case management skills?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The letters are stamped and are ready to be mailed.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Meanwhile, though creative financing has mostly been stamped on, some councils' past ingenuity is catching up with them.
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Miguel turned away, stamping out his cigarette, facing the wall like it was his future.
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One cradled a paper cup of coffee in both hands, stamping his feet as if it was cold.
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Pitt was a great philanthropist and wanted to stamp out smuggling, which was rife.
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Punching postman Tony Thornton says he's going to stamp on Eubank - but Eubank plans to return the challenger to sender.
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Roll thinly and stamp out 16 small leaves.