noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a summit conference (= for the leaders of governments )
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The heads of most Arab states met in Amman for a summit conference.
a summit meeting (= between leaders of governments )
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The Prime Minister is in Paris for a European summit meeting.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
annual
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At the moment the annual summit is little more than an expensive talking shop.
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Overfishing by foreign vessels and toxic waste dumping were also major causes for concern at their annual summit .
arab
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The Shah was the man who came to dinner ... There was an Arab summit coming up.
economic
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The anti-capitalists gathering to protest at this week s world economic summit in Genoa are both right and wrong.
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Nearly every economic summit since the first one in 1975 has come up with a catch phrase.
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Like other economic summits , it came in for a lot of stick.
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But it is starting to look silly to exclude from economic summits representatives from countries that produce half the world's output.
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Over the decades, the economic summits have had a dismal record of understanding what was happening in the real world.
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Britain had previously set great store by the Lisbon economic summit two years ago, but progress has subsequently been slow.
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How the arts fit in with the city economy is one of the issues Brown hopes to explore in his economic summit .
eu
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Mr Straw planned to float the proposals this week in a speech in Lisbon on the eve of the EU summit .
international
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No law of equal time exists to ensure that he appears at as many international summits as she does.
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On Monday, Hillary Clinton will address an international microcredit summit .
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Mrs Thatcher was still highly visible at international summits , but often now as an obstructive, quarrelsome figure.
■ NOUN
conference
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In November 1987 the heads of most Arab states met in Amman for a summit conference .
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No, it did not occur to the prisoner that by violating Soviet frontiers he was endangering the upcoming summit conference .
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Plus fresh fodder for their next summit conference on Rainbow's appearance, attitudes and ultimate destiny.
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In 1955, the year of the Geneva summit conference , there were conciliatory gestures towards nuclear disarmament on both sides.
maastricht
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For all those reasons, it is essential that there is a successful conclusion to the Maastricht summit next month.
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We keep hearing comments tonight - we also heard them in the debate before the Maastricht summit - about sovereignty.
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The Maastricht summit gives us great opportunities for economic, social and democratic reform.
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That is why the Maastricht summit was always going to be important well beyond its paper agenda.
meeting
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Two more summit meetings were planned before the end of the year.
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Romer, a patient practitioner of the consensus-building school of government, held a series of summit meetings .
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January 1990 summit meeting p. 37202.
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A trilateral summit meeting was planned for the following month.
ridge
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On the summit ridges Racomitrium is often confined to the lee side of boulders.
■ VERB
attend
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But Simmons emailed executives and told them not to attend Muhammad's summit , and refused to invite him to his own.
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Yeltsin had decided not to attend the summit because of critical July 3 elections.
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Other senior officials also attended the summit .
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Mr Barak said he would attend a summit hosted by the United States, if one were called.
call
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It is tempting, then, to call time on G8 summits .
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They welcomed last month's initiative by Mr Bush and called for a summit with him within 90 days.
hold
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Romer, a patient practitioner of the consensus-building school of government, held a series of summit meetings.
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It roused the kings and presidents to hold an emergency summit in Cairo last October.
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He said he hoped that the two countries would strengthen relations and hold a summit meeting at least once a year.
lead
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Ben Holt on the Z-pitch, leading to the summit of the Grand Dru.
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A very steep paths leads down from the summit .
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There are many paths leading to the summit of Goatfell.
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From the cairn turn right along a track which leads east-north-east to the summit .
meet
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The Geneva meeting , the first summit since Potsdam ten years earlier, was not the result of any political settlement.
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Eight days later, the agreement was drafted and both sides met again at the summit and signed their names.
reach
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This f is used only to detect when the algorithm has reached a summit or plateau.
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But Cook claimed to have reached the summit at 10 a. m., September 16.
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Have you ever tried to reach a summit when in retrospect you've realised that the conditions were too dangerous?
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And he reached the final summit Sunday on Mount Aconcagua, just days before his birthday.
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We looked at each other - we had finally reached Isparion's elusive summit .
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For every five people who have reached the summit of Everest, one has died.
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The sun was going down and it was in a warm twilight that they reached the summit of their climb.
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Cook had some incredible news: He and Barrill had reached the summit !
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A summit meeting of OPEC leaders was called to find a solution to the oil crisis.
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a national education summit
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a trip to the summit of Pike's Peak
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A U.S.-Russia summit is expected to take place in late March.
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a U.S.-Russian summit
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In the distance we could see the snow-covered summit of Mount Kilimanjaro.
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It took the climbers four hours to reach the summit .
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NATO leaders are preparing for a summit conference to decide the future of the alliance.
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The President will meet other Pacific Rim leaders at next week's economic summit .
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We took a small train to the summit of Pike's Peak.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At the moment the annual summit is little more than an expensive talking shop.
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Climber assistant editor Tom Prentice and leader Keith Milne reached the summit of the 6,904m mountain after 13 days.
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Four Dopplemayr chairlifts take you up from the hotel at 2,000m to the summit at 3,000m.
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Go north along the lower edge of the fence, around the hillside and up the main path north-east to the summit .
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The Helsinki summit , arranged at very short notice, dealt almost exclusively with the specific issue of a major regional conflict.
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The sun was going down and it was in a warm twilight that they reached the summit of their climb.
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The White House announced that some commitments from the private sector already have been made as part of summit preparations.
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The world's first internet summit has been cancelled because of lack of interest.