noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a career woman (= one whose job is very important to her )
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Career women tend to marry later.
a lucky man/woman/boy/girl
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Your son’s a lucky man, having a father like you.
a man/woman etc named sth (= someone with a particular name )
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some guy named Bob Dylan
a man/woman of principle (= someone with strong moral ideas )
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He is the only candidate who has demonstrated that he is a man of principle.
a married man/woman
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By 1957 a third of married women were working.
career woman
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independent career women
childless couple/woman/marriage
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It was a happy but childless marriage.
cleaning lady/woman (= a woman who cleans houses, offices etc as her job )
fancy woman
kept woman
like a man/woman possessed literary (= with a lot of energy or violence )
loose woman
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a loose woman
mystery man/woman
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Who was the mystery woman spotted on board the yacht with the prince?
old woman
prejudice against women/black people etc
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There is still a lot of prejudice against women in positions of authority.
scarlet woman
stunt woman
the man/woman/house etc of your dreams (= the perfect one for you )
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We can help you find the house of your dreams.
us women/men/teachers etc
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Life is hard for us women.
women's lib
women's movement
women's room
women's studies
women/men/residents etc only
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The car park is for staff only.
working women
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Many working women rely on relatives for childcare.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
black
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Instead, black married women stopped having so many children; black unmarried women continued to have them as before.
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Like the black woman in a slave narrative, the Chicana remains here an abiding if sometimes invisible medium of exchange.
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Some Black women use bleaching creams.
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Ginger Montgomery is a black woman in her late 30s.
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Compensation comes later, though; their heavy bones make black women less likely to suffer from osteoporosis when they're older.
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I glanced at the young black woman beside me.
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Jane was squeezed beside the fattest black woman she'd ever seen, shaking like a jelly with continual mirth.
married
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In addition, unmarried women carers are more likely than either married women or men to be carrying particularly heavy caring responsibilities.
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The proportion of married women falls to just over two in ten, and the proportion widowed rises to nearly two-thirds.
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Older married women are less likely than men to receive a National Insurance retirement pension in their own right.
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In those days married women didn't work, so for her it was the ideal solution.
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She admired married women , especially those with children, more than anyone else.
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How could he when she was still a married woman ?
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A young married woman was removed from intensive care during the day and a third patient's condition was unchanged.
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There was to be a drive to recruit married women who had left teaching, and to make part-time teaching more attractive.
old
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He had held the paper as tightly as an old woman holds a rosary.
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Despite all the community agencies, there is no place to put a forsaken old woman .
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The room smelled of old woman .
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Helen, feeding the old woman mush on a spoon.
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An old woman who looked, as the flatterers said, remarkable.
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The old woman stalled the robbers in their search for the ring and gave them wine with sleeping medicine.
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An old woman ridiculous in the presence of desire.
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The old woman walked about two feet toward the car at the curb.
only
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A technician with Courtelle, 30-year-old Dawn is the only woman among the 50 auxiliary fire personnel at the site.
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The only woman ever elected governor of Texas was Miriam Ferguson in 1924.
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Portia however is not the only woman to have these traits, however.
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Upstairs the red-haired man was in bed with the only woman in the group.
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I find it disappointing now that when I go to a completion meeting, I am often the only woman there.
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She was the only woman there.
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My little Shelley, you are the only woman I have ever met who can make me very happy.
other
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Between them Caroline and M have every quality I hate in other women .
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How we relate to other women .
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But there was no doubt that it was the other woman on the line.
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Then she lay down to rest in the lounge, surrounded by other women who even here never stopped talking.
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They added their prayers to those of the other women .
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There are other events for women only.
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She'd accused him of always looking at other women: looking, looking, as though for the next conquest.
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After all, the role of the other woman was hardly one she delighted in.
pregnant
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In February 1985 a young pregnant woman from Ballywilliam, Nenagh, Co.
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Also patron of the falsely accused, midwives, obstetricians, and pregnant women .
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The new edition includes a new chapter on smoking among pregnant women .
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He would never execute a pregnant woman , he said.
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Also patron of divine intervention and pregnant women .
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Now I feel so unhappy and jealous when I see babies or pregnant women .
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The pregnant woman can not be isolated in her privacy.
young
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She was invariably polite to Gerald which was not always the case with young women .
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There were young women here too-female Halut-zim, evidently.
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Books were published in reply and arguments advanced in favour of young women .
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The easiest way to ensure this was to choose a very young woman , still in her teens.
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To be sure, there are more young men and women in this age group because of the 1960's baby boom.
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These young women have stopped feeling.
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But this was the real world, and young women like Shelley just didn't fit in with men like Miguelito.
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They seem fortunate to some because they are left to pursue young women without being caught in the coils of female sexuality.
■ VERB
marry
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Having to choose between living with their parents or getting married , most young women used to opt for marriage.
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He married a woman from the Washington area two weeks before his 1994 defeat.
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It would be much more sensible for you to marry a woman with money.
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The gigolo has married a rich woman whose husband abandoned her.
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The proportion of never-\#married women under 50 who are cohabiting has trebled to three in 10 over this period.
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They are all young married women who followed their husbands out here.
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In the early 1970s only 7.5 % of married women were in paid employment.
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Most married women surveyed said they were not victims of love at first sight and not moved to marriage by romance.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a changed man/woman
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Marley said he was sorry for his crimes and insists he's a changed man.
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My father came back from the war a changed man.
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She returned from her travel a changed woman.
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But when he came home he was a changed man.
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He's a changed man since Mum went into hospital.
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He emerged from the opera house a changed man.
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He lives only for the moment, and he is already a changed man.
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Ian says from then on Robert has been a changed man - withdrawn and completely unapproachable.
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Meanwhile, the master strategist, off in Los Angeles, was sixty-nine years old and a changed man.
a fallen woman
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She was a fallen woman, and her hair knew it.
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Whatever she can urge in mitigation, she is a fallen woman for the rest of her life.
a fine figure of a man/woman
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Vellios was a fine figure of a man.
a fine figure of a man/woman
a fine man/woman etc
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And he was a fine man, a good man.
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Aye, a fine man, Elizabeth thought admiringly.
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Ben's a fine man, but he does talk so much.
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He was a fine man, Con Meredith-Lee.
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I travelled in and they did an interview which a fine man called Peter Canham heard on his car radio.
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Really sad case, that, because he'd been a fine man.
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She was a fine woman, unspoilt by childbirth, her body hardened by fieldwork.
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You're a fine woman when you're roused, my darling.
a man/woman etc after my own heart
a man/woman etc of few words
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Bill Templeman was a man of few words .
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Blitherdick, usually a man of few words , had become lachrymose about Blenkinsop's enjoyment of a good wine.
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He had a clear scientific mind but was self-effacing, modest, and a man of few words .
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He was a man of few words but many graphic gestures.
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He was a man of few words in any case, Maggie noted.
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I am therefore a man of few words and I have been very brief throughout my professional career.
battered woman/wife/husband/baby etc
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It was not intended to suggest that these were battered wives.
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Moreover, battered women often wind up dropping the charges as reconciliation with the abuser.
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Now the ikons of female suffering are all around us; the image of the battered woman is high fashion.
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The church has already erred on this side in the counsel it has given battered women.
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The groups most adamant about denying help to battered women were the conservative fundamentalists and some orders of Catholicism.
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The person on call made us a cup of tea - battered wives' homes are the greatest!
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They took us to the police station and then to a battered women's house at about 2 a.m.
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We have often been tempted to abandon this task; then another battered woman would come into our lived.
be a man/woman of the world
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Look, Ray, you're a man of the world - I'm sure you've been in situations like this before.
be one crazy woman/be one interesting job etc
be your own man/woman
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She didn't want to quarrel with him, but made it plain that she was her own woman now, with her own life to lead.
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Sheila is very much her own woman. She'll listen to everyone and then make up her mind for herself.
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Stan was intellectual, confident and above all, his own man.
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At the same time, both here and in Hawksmoor, Ackroyd, too, is his own man.
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But Erlich was his own man.
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He turned out to be his own man, and a leader.
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He was his own man, after all.
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Major's first chance to show that he is his own man has been squandered on favours.
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Mobile I was my own man and played the way I believed because we lacked talent in certain areas.
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The latest reshuffle, immediately following victory, was supposed to confirm, once and for all, that Major was his own man.
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You can be your own man.
be/feel like a new man/woman
grown man/woman
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Grown men in three-piece suits were playing video games.
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Elsie had never seen a grown man cry before.
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He' s a grown man - he should be able to cook for himself!
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She's crazy -- a grown woman letting a girl order her around like that.
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And the old Porsche 911 which has the same effect, but for very different reasons, on grown men.
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I was fourteen, but I guess I looked like a grown woman.
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In this story about Shep, he is a grown man and the prosperous owner of a silk mill.
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Nearly twenty years ago that was, and now you re a grown woman.
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No wonder that many grown women rebel against them.
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Not one grown man, aristocrat or peasant, is worthy of respect when you really know him.
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Several that I saw were very old, bearded, emaciated and grim and deathlike, instead of babies, grown men.
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She was a grown woman, she was entitled to take a bit of comfort as and when she pleased.
make an honest woman (out) of sb
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If dishonoured her, must then make an honest woman of her?
man/woman of many parts
man/woman of substance
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Aristeides represented the land forces, the men of substance , who provided their own armour and were not paid.
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But Miss Close's father was a man of substance , and he finally bought the picture for a rather large sum.
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He accepted the semi-political duties of a man of substance in his county.
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He was a man of substance .
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His will, executed on 12 December 1760, shows him to have been a man of substance .
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I am not worried about the men of substance .
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I was a man of substance now, I had arrived.
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The lowest officials on the administrative tier were the village headmen, who were normally men of substance .
marked man/woman
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But Chennault was a marked man.
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Ever since his luncheon with Katherine Fisher, Jim had felt like a marked man whenever he was in the office complex.
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From that time he was dedicated, a marked man.
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He thus became a marked man.
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In his defence, Souness believes his no-nonsense approach has made him a marked man.
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It was well known that the younger Beaumont twin was a marked man.
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Mark Gallagher - marked man today Much ado about nothing!
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Without Young, forward Andy Poppink is a marked man.
not just any (old) man/woman/job etc
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And a T'ang is not just any man.
people/women/students etc of color
professional person/man/woman etc
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A mature spinster, a professional woman, might.
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About 80 percent of its clients are business and professional women.
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As far as childcare is concerned, professional women have to rely on paid care.
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Glossy, high-powered soap opera about four black professional women helping one another through a bad year in Phoenix.
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Of those executive and professional women who did marry, most chose not to have children or deferred them until very late.
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The result is that the practical definition of obscenity has been decided by middle-aged-to-elderly professional men.
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There may be a willing volunteer or a professional person specially appointed, but this may not be easy to find.
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These are very well-educated professional women in Fog Bank who felt insecure about investing.
sb's old woman
the little woman
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A pinstriped husband in the city patronisingly fond of the little woman and her projects.
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The report explodes the myth that men are the bed-hopping rogues while the little woman waits at home.
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What is incomprehensible is John McEnroe's apparent efforts to keep the little woman at home.
the man/woman in the street
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The advertising industry has to know exactly what the man in the street is thinking.
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This latest legislation will not really affect the man or woman in the street .
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But the man in the street will say: how can it get worse?
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He picked up the women in the street .
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Like most of the women in the street , Pat Johnstone had been angered by it all.
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One of the men in the street ran to open the door, then another man pushed him.
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That's what the man in the street wants.
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The Alliance Party had a slightly Roman Catholic image with the man in the street .
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Then comes the whip, the sudden vicious reminder of the man in the street .
the other woman
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I couldn't believe it when the other woman turned out to be my next-door neighbor.
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Carrie's only problem was the other woman who worked in the dining rooms.
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Eva was more lucid than most of the other women, yet she never got out of the locked ward.
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Her hair was fair, so that I thought for a moment of the other woman I had met recently, Elizabeth Lavenza.
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Hilda returned to her seat next to Omite, while the other women seemed to form a circle that excluded her.
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Lakshmiamma, a lace-maker in Narsapur, gave a talk to the other women recently.
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She cries a little when one of the other women stops to talk.
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She resolved to find out about the other woman.
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The father never guessed any of the other women in the room.
the thinking man's/woman's etc sth
the woman/man/girl etc in your life
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He was a tough little kid, Esteban, the women in his life say.
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Michael: Who are the men in your life ?
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My doctor is the man in my life .
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Nevertheless, he felt abandoned and betrayed by the women in his life .
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Recent books have revealed the unacknowledged literary debts that writers such as Brecht and Joyce owed to the women in their lives .
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To clarify things that may be confusing the men in their lives .
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Was that why she found the men in her life all so boring?
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Why was it that the men in her life seemed to have found some other woman to give them an heir?
the women's movement
token woman/black etc
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We shouldn't accept the analysis of the token woman.
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You have to be both token woman and superwoman to come anywhere near a shortlist that disenfranchises most of the male population.
woman/lady/girl of easy virtue
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Sadly, morals and behaviour ashore had deteriorated too with more drunks and ladies of easy virtue in evidence.
woman/man etc of independent means
woman/man with a mission
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A man with a mission who suddenly loses his faith.
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How can a 77-year-old man with a mission admit that he was wrong all along?
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Powered by a man with a mission .
women's libber
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She's a women's libber , so it's all on offer.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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women's clothes
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Women drivers tend to be much more careful than men.
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an exciting new collection of short stories by women writers
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In some African countries, the women do most of the agricultural work.
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Mrs Thatcher was Britain's first woman prime minister.
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Not long ago, the Church of England voted to ordain women priests.
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Rebecca Stephens was the first British woman to climb Mount Everest.
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What can a woman do when she can't trust her best friend?
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Who's that woman you were talking to just now?
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Who was the dark-haired woman you were talking to?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All participants were new sales and marketing managers, fourteen men and five women.
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And women go through a monthly pain cycle.
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But this woman was nothing like her.
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Could a man who deserted his wife and child for another woman get off free without scars?
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Some women work because, having reduced responsibilities and ties, they have more spare time and freedom.