I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a weekend/summer cottage (= that the owners go to at weekends or in the summer )
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They live in London but they also have a weekend cottage by the sea.
alternate Mondays/weekends etc
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The service runs on alternate days.
bank holiday weekend (= a weekend on which there is a bank holiday on Friday or Monday )
dirty weekend British English (= a weekend when a man and woman who are not married to each other go away to have sex )
Easter holiday/weekend/break
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We spent the Easter holidays in Wales.
have a good time/day/weekend etc
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Did you have a good vacation?
weekend getaway
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Big Bear Lake is a popular weekend getaway .
weekend warrior
work days/nights/weekends etc
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I get paid more if I work nights.
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We’re sometimes expected to work twelve-hour days.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
last
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Meanwhile upstream at Bankside an estimated 75,000 visited Tate Modern last weekend .
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With lanes closed and hungry sheep on the Ridgeway, prosperous west Berkshire looked disease-free but quietly miserable last weekend .
long
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So for a little over £100 it is easy to spend a long weekend in Paris in the spring, summer or whenever.
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About half the normal amount of trades took place as traders were reluctant to place bets ahead of the long weekend .
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Would you like a long weekend in the country courtesy of Citroën?
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During the school year, long weekends are good opportunities to explore together.
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Or get an early start on that long weekend commute, then catch up from home.
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The long weekend also gave me time to myself to rest and ponder on all that had gone and was to come.
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Her policy of not dating frivolously is fine, theoretically, but makes for long , lonely weekends .
■ NOUN
break
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Special weekend breaks are on offer at many hotels.
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A two night self-drive weekend break from their Winter-Inn programme staying at Les Trois Mousquetaires costs £181 per person high season.
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Birmingham is a great city for a weekend break .
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For at Craigendarroch we have more to offer you than a luxurious weekend break .
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When they returned to finish the work after a weekend break , they found parts of the posts missing and broken.
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Remember not to contact Sunday newspaper journalists on Monday - they will be having their weekend break !
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I left for my weekend break after those first five days wanting to hug everyone I met.
easter
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I first heard of La Chupacabra over the Easter weekend while visiting family in Laredo.
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Over the Easter weekend there were complaints that the toilets were closed as early as five p.m.
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To the surprise of many, and regardless of the approaching Easter weekend , a string of real-life cash-in-hand buyers appeared.
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These consisted mainly of leisure bookings, particularly for the coming Easter weekend , which almost dried up during the election campaign.
holiday
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If football's not your game ... you can bank on a feast of other sports this holiday weekend .
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The incident happened over a holiday weekend .
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The rest of the bank holiday weekend passed slowly.
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The deadline comes in the middle of the Presidents' Day holiday weekend .
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Some outlying villages were still under several feet of water yesterday and weathermen warned of more to come in the holiday weekend .
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Marsha can not reach a doctor during the four-day holiday weekend .
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Until then, goodnight and a good bank holiday weekend .
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Perhaps, this morning, there is something at the office he must look into before the long holiday weekend .
■ VERB
spend
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Baldwin had spent the weekend partly in London and partly at Chequers.
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I spent the whole weekend reading and re-reading it.
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We did not venture near the fields again until a friend with children came to spend a weekend .
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If all goes as planned, Autumn Jackson and Jose Medina are spending their last weekend in federal custody.
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I spent the weekend in a Nissan Almera Sport which takes 11 seconds to get from 0 to 60.
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The embassy spokesman said she had spent the weekend on a family visit to Britain, where she was born and raised.
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He and I spent a happy weekend visiting London together.
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Wilson is spending this weekend in Florida.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
long weekend
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About half the normal amount of trades took place as traders were reluctant to place bets ahead of the long weekend.
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During the school year, long weekends are good opportunities to explore together.
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It had been a long weekend for both of them.
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Or get an early start on that long weekend commute, then catch up from home.
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So for a little over £100 it is easy to spend a long weekend in Paris in the spring, summer or whenever.
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The long weekend also gave me time to myself to rest and ponder on all that had gone and was to come.
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Would you like a long weekend in the country courtesy of Citroën?
of an evening/of a weekend etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Robert also works a part-time job on weekends to make ends meet.
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You've won a weekend for two in Chicago!
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Her policy of not dating frivolously is fine, theoretically, but makes for long, lonely weekends.
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I worried about that, but I slept there every weekend .
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It will be stored over the weekend at Winfrith and on Tuesday will arrive at Dounreay for reprocessing.
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Next weekend the county's Schools and Industry Association runs a series of workshops during a two-day business education partnership conference.
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Summer rates start at $ 230 on weekends.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
on
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I was flying away on weekends .