I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
pull tab
tab key
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
keep
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The Prince is rather easier to keep tabs on, but there is always the unforeseen to disrupt even the best-laid plans.
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Some even keep tabs on what World Wide Web sites people visit most.
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She took Stephenson home with her so that she and her husband could keep closer tabs on him.
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We try to keep close tabs on our boys in blue.
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They patrol land and keep tabs on the gangs after tip offs from gamekeepers and farmers.
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It was one way of keeping tabs on his profession, not pretension to culture.
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They lack the stamina and the courage to keep close tabs on the mountain, he said.
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De Schalit sees the coalition as a watchdog that keeps tabs on the healthcare industry.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
pick up the bill/tab (for sth)
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The company's picking up the bill for my trip to Hawaii.
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After its shareholder equity turned negative last year, parent Dasa started picking up the bills.
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But remember - raid your savings now and Santa won't pick up the bill.
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Everything depended on contributors picking up the bill in ten, twenty or thirty years.
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I wonder to myself as I pick up the tab for breakfast.
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In addition, my company will pick up the tab for all legal and moving expenses.
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Often, the book publisher, not the author, picks up the tab.
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There is a growing, often unstated, anticipation that the private sector will pick up the bill for public services.
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When the check comes, the lobbyists almost always pick up the tab.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He ordered dinner and asked for it to be put on his tab .
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In just two days, she'd run up a bar tab of $175.
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Our tab for the meal came to just $48.
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The bride's father paid the tab for the party.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Since insurers pick up about 55 percent of the tab , the premiums they charge drivers are steep, and getting steeper.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Twenty-year-old Tavarez was tabbed to play the leading role.