noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a luxury ship/yacht
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He'd booked a holiday on a luxury cruise ship.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
luxury
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You can enjoy the water in a small dinghy as much as in a luxury yacht .
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She said there was no way her husband of 46 years would have killed himself by jumping off his luxury yacht .
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Diana climbed aboard one boat with children William and Harry for the short hop to their luxury yacht .
new
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The Backup New yachts suffer from teething problems, and older yachts need lots of tender loving care.
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Before the opening of this new marina, yachts had to detour to the south to the Canaries.
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I've designed a new yacht which we believe stands an excellent chance of winning the next round-the-world race.
royal
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Ironically, for two weeks in 1981, the royal yacht was the luxurious honeymoon base for Charles and Diana.
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It had a single curved platform and a handsome waiting-room, and provided access from the railway to the royal yacht .
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On board the royal yacht , with its 21officers and 256 men, they were never left alone.
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She will also hold a reception on the Royal yacht Britannia.
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The Royals seem to use the royal yacht purely for privileged leisure cruising - at our vast expense.
■ NOUN
britannia
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She will also hold a reception on the Royal yacht Britannia .
club
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However, the yacht club flourishes, and the regatta is still held.
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He could have drowned rowing back from the yacht club .
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One day I went to the nearby yacht club where a open-air reggae festival continued well into the night.
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No evidence of a Buchanan trust fund or yacht club membership, however.
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There is also a marina yacht club and a licensed restaurant barge at South Dock.
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The yacht club , the Presidio, the park, and of course the bridge dominated the view to the left.
motor
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Sheets in, he bore away from the motor yacht .
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This one concerned a motor yacht making a run with spirits from the Channel Isles.
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Sailing yachts 31-53 feet, motor yachts 37-46 feet, plus an extensive range of crewed sail and motor yachts 42-120 feet.
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By Cairnbaan only three motor yachts had puttered by.
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White-hulled, she was a sleek ninety-foot Baglietto motor yacht .
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Easing Golden Girl up under mainsail, Trent watched the motor yacht roll gently in the swell.
race
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The thing flapped around like a sail in a transatlantic yacht race , you could have gone surfing on it.
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In the 1972 single-handed Transatlantic yacht race , a number of hallucinations and illusions were experienced, some of them premonitions.
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To improve its image, the firm is splashing out £3 million on sponsoring a boat in the 1993 round-the-world yacht race .
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The toughest yacht race in the world will have changed the 140 people who took part, some perhaps for ever.
■ VERB
sail
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Newall, 27, was arrested by a Royal Navy frigate sailing his yacht off Casablanca.
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The veterinarians must be sailing in yachts , surely.
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Windsurfers on the plane Nor is this like sailing a yacht !
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He could have drowned rowing back from the yacht club.
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Sometimes you may spot an occasional dorsal fin when it pops out like a miniature yacht sail.
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The yachts later picked up a freshening breeze which reached Force 5 approaching the island.
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The yachts tacked back and forth across the Solent, and then moored up for a sumptuous lunch.
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The Backup New yachts suffer from teething problems, and older yachts need lots of tender loving care.
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The resourceful youngster has overhauled the yacht and drummed up sponsors largely by himself.
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We provide a comprehensive range of sizes to suit every yacht specification for leisure use or for the longest of passages.