I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
life vest
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
bulletproof
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Women invented Liquid Paper, the Melitta coffee filter system, the Kevlar material used for bulletproof vests , and much more.
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The writer was wearing a bulletproof vest and had brass knuckles and chemical repellent in other pockets.
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Had she been favored with a Sweet 16 gala, the Phoenix miss would have taken her bows wearing a bulletproof vest .
running
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A red cotton T-shirt or running vest is available at a nominal charge of £1.00 together with sponsorship forms.
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Sally has donated her official Barcelona running vest to the appeal, which has a goal of £60,000.
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Call John Girling on for your free running vest , car sticker, sweatband and sponsor form.
■ NOUN
life
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The outboard was gone, too, and the gas can and the orange life vest and the two fiberglass oars.
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Kathy pulled her arms inside the life vest .
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All wore life vests , officials said.
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She loaded the oars and gas can and life vest , then turned to close the boathouse doors.
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Kathy tucked her chin into the life vest , closed her eyes.
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Maybe she forgot to put on the life vest .
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State regulations require whitewater boaters to wear helmets and life vests .
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All three were wearing life vests and were unhurt.
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He took out a flask from his vest pocket and poured it into the glass.
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And then Hardin withdrew a two-credit coin from his vest pocket .
■ VERB
wear
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He would often be dressed in just a loose-fitting pair of shorts, but sometimes deigned to wear a vest as well.
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They wore leather vests and high-heeled sneakers, body suits and spandex, trying to get noticed.
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Tabitha was also wearing a white vest and Helena a shirt.
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The writer was wearing a bulletproof vest and had brass knuckles and chemical repellent in other pockets.
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He was wearing only a sleeveless vest and a pair of short pants that reached almost to his bony knees.
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About one hundred state troopers wearing bulletproof vests kept the groups well separated after a fistfight broke out in the afternoon.
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Even in this weather he was wearing a sleeveless vest .
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Women wear gowns with trains of fabric trailing after them; men wear vests and jackets.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
vested interest
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Both the newspaper and the advertising agency have a vested interest in encouraging advertising.
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The committee should be independent of all vested interest.
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A person from outside the process area who has no vested interest in an issue makes the best facilitator.
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Enormous vested interests will need to be overcome to bring about such changes.
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Jerry has obvious vested interests to protect.
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Lots of people have a vested interest in the past.
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Or to create a rational design that goes against vested interests will likely not be implemented.
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They thus have a vested interest in their conservation.
vested interests
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Powerful vested interests are keeping American products out of that market.
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Even fewer are unattached to vested interests in the debate.
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In jails, at the hands of landlords, vested interests, police, during the Emergency.
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Jerry has obvious vested interests to protect.
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Others point to the rapid growth of military-industrial complexes with vested interests in international hostility.
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Probably the last of the true amateur captains, his decisions were not controlled by monetary or vested interests.
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That is partly a function of habit and experience, and partly the result of emerging vested interests.
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This is the strange case with the vested interests in production.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All his underclothes, his sports socks, his trousers and vests were smeared with shit.
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Du Pont used to allow local police officers to train on his estate, and equipped the department with expensive bulletproof vests.
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Her body was swathed in towels, except for the gap where her vest was pulled up.
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I was very glad of my thermal vest , three layers of woollies, and waterproof and windproof outer garments.
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Old opinions were shed, stuffy woolly shabby old liberal vests and comforters were left piled on the shore.
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The outboard was gone, too, and the gas can and the orange life vest and the two fiberglass oars.
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The writer was wearing a bulletproof vest and had brass knuckles and chemical repellent in other pockets.
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Women invented Liquid Paper, the Melitta coffee filter system, the Kevlar material used for bulletproof vests, and much more.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
power
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Firstly, the justification given by the model for vesting substantial managerial power in the hands of the directors will be investigated.
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We know that advertisers have a vested interest in their power to suspend our disbelief.
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On 8 August Franco signed a law vesting in himself total power over the administration of the state.
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Civil rights, equal opportunity and Great Society legislation in the 1960s also vested more power in the federal government.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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It was more efficient because decision making was vested in the director, whom I will call Faustino Mata.