noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
drug takers
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treatment for drug takers
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
census
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Minorities, the urban poor and fast-growing Sunbelt states claimed to have been undercounted by the census takers .
drug
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The drug is still occasionally used experimentally by scientists, psychiatrists, and philosophers, as well as by dilettante drug takers .
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It means treatment, not just punishment, for drug takers .
risk
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Intellectual risk takers are the life blood of our school system and provide the vision which we so much need.
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Creativity inevitably involves taking risks , and, in Great Groups, it is understood that the risk taker will sometimes stumble.
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Veteran pilot Joe Reid was anything but a risk taker when it came to flying, his friends and co-workers say.
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Gradually, you will see yourself as a risk taker .
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Children become risk takers ...
■ VERB
find
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They will make themselves seen and heard like fireworks on a dark night, and their services will always find takers .
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The sixteenth-birthday fantasy was a cherished one, but he hadn't found any takers yet.
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It's more difficult to find takers for it now, says Harry.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Tommy is a giver, not a taker .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A world in and of itself, a world that census takers had documented, one hundred thousand and growing.
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But most traders act simply as toll takers.
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Census takers then turn the difference into a mathematical formula and apply it to the overall locality.
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Despite the elaborate plans, there were few takers.
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I share the right hon. Gentleman's view about the remarks by the hostage takers.
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Intellectual risk takers are the life blood of our school system and provide the vision which we so much need.
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It was a dismal failure. 1926-27 found him hawking a play round London offices with no potential takers.