WANTED


Meaning of WANTED in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

be wanted on the phone

Larry, tell Rosemary that she’s wanted on the phone.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

most

And with its colour graphics screen is the most wanted hand-held machine you can get.

You're the most wanted man in Britain.

■ NOUN

man

Nobody, it seemed, could say one good word about the wanted man .

But instead he's a wanted man on the run from the police.

Just over half the wanted men were in their twenties.

There were no photographs of the wanted man and no two people could agree about his appearance.

You're the most wanted man in Britain.

When he had not returned by lam, it was assumed that he was the wanted man .

Newcastle's wanted man won't make any decision for at least another seven days following talks in London with boss Kevin Keegan.

How many new contracts would he get if it came out that guests of his had held clandestine meetings with wanted men ?

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

I just wanted to say/know etc

I asked them, and this is what they told me. I just wanted to know did you know any more.

In the ambulance, I just wanted to know the damage.

The truth of it was, as miserable as things were, I just wanted to say I had been there.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

I never felt wanted by my parents.

Mr. Bendiger, you're wanted on the telephone.

Richards is wanted for the murder of a security guard at the City Bank in December of last year.

The mass murderer known as the "Yorkshire Ripper" was for a long time the most wanted man in Britain.

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