noun
1 between people/groups/countries
ADJECTIVE
▪ friendly , good , happy , harmonious , healthy , strong
▪
They have a very healthy father-son ~.
▪ broken , difficult , failed , fragile , poor , rocky , stormy , strained , troubled , uneasy , volatile
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Their ~ has always been a stormy one.
▪ close , intense , intimate , special
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Britain's special ~ with the US
▪ committed , enduring , lasting , long-standing , long-term , monogamous , permanent , serious , stable , steady
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He was not married, but he was in a stable ~.
▪ brief , casual
▪ caring , love-hate , loving
▪ abusive
▪ family , human , interpersonal , one-to-one , personal
▪ doctor-patient , parent-child , etc.
▪ business , contractual , financial , formal , professional , social , working
▪ marital , physical , romantic , sexual
▪ platonic
▪ gay , heterosexual , homosexual , lesbian , same-sex
▪ power
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The play is about power ~s at work.
VERB + RELATIONSHIP
▪ enjoy , have
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They enjoyed a close working ~.
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The school has a very good ~ with the community.
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He had brief ~s with several women.
▪ begin , build , build up , cultivate , develop , establish , forge , form , foster
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Building strong ~s is essential.
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They established a ~ of trust.
▪ cement , improve , strengthen
▪ continue , maintain
▪ deal with , handle , manage
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He's not very good at handling personal ~s.
▪ break off , end
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She broke off the ~ when she found out about his gambling.
▪ destroy , ruin
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Lack of trust destroys many ~s.
RELATIONSHIP + VERB
▪ exist
▪
We want to improve the ~ that exists between the university and industry.
▪ deepen , develop , evolve , progress
▪ blossom , flourish
▪ work
▪
I tried everything to make our ~ work.
▪ continue , last
▪ deteriorate , go wrong , worsen
▪ break down , break up , end , fail
RELATIONSHIP + NOUN
▪ difficulties , problems
▪ breakdown ( esp. BrE )
▪ goals
▪ counsellor/counselor ( esp. BrE )
PREPOSITION
▪ in a/the ~
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In normal human ~s there has to be some give and take.
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At the moment he isn't in a ~.
▪ ~ among
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The focus is on ~s among European countries.
▪ ~ between , ~ to
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their ~ to each other
▪ ~ with
PHRASES
▪ the breakdown of a ~
▪ a network of ~s , a web of ~s
2 family connection
ADJECTIVE
▪ blood , family , kin , kinship
▪ distant
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He claimed to have a distant ~ with royalty.
PREPOSITION
▪ ~ between
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‘What's the ~ between you and Tony?’ ‘He's my cousin.’
▪ ~ to
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What ~ are you to Pat?
3 connection between two or more things
ADJECTIVE
▪ close
▪
There's a close ~ between increased money supply and inflation.
▪ direct
▪ clear
▪ complex , complicated
▪ significant
▪ true
▪ particular
▪ inverse , negative
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the inverse ~ between gas consumption and air temperature
▪ positive
▪ causal , dynamic , reciprocal , symbiotic
▪
the symbiotic ~ between corals and algae
▪ linear , spatial
▪ economic , functional , legal
▪ natural , organic
▪ symbolic
VERB + RELATIONSHIP
▪ bear , have
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The fee bears little ~ to the service provided.
▪ analyze , assess , evaluate , examine , explore , investigate , look at , study
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His latest book examines the ~ between spatial awareness and mathematical ability.
▪ determine , discover , establish , find
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They discovered a ~ between depression and lack of sunlight.
▪ demonstrate , show
▪ see , understand
▪ describe
RELATIONSHIP + VERB
▪ exist
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No statistically significant ~ existed between the occurrences.
▪ emerge
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A clear ~ emerged in the study between happiness and level of education.
PREPOSITION
▪ in a/the ~
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The different varieties of the language are in a dynamic ~ with each other.
▪ ~ among
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Our research will explore the ~s among these variables.
▪ ~ between
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I can't see the ~ between the figures and the diagram.
▪ ~ to
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the ~ of a parasite to its host
▪ ~ with
PHRASES
▪ the nature of the ~
▪ stand in a … relationship to sth
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Women and men stand in a different ~ to language.