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"acquaintance" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

acquaintance sustantivo

sustantivo + acquaintance
Kolokacji: 6
business acquaintance • family acquaintance • childhood acquaintance • chance acquaintance • school acquaintance • ...
acquaintance + verbo
Kolokacji: 14
acquaintance says • acquaintance describes • acquaintance tells • acquaintance makes • acquaintance includes • ...
verbo + acquaintance
Kolokacji: 11
renew one's acquaintance • make the acquaintance • tell acquaintances • claim acquaintance • visit acquaintances • ...
frequent collocations
Kolokacji: 2
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 3
(1) renew, make, scrape, cultivate, form
Kolokacji: 5
1. renew one's acquaintance = odnawiać czyjś znajomy renew one's acquaintance
renew acquaintances, renew acquaintance
2. make the acquaintance = marki znajomy make the acquaintance
make one's acquaintance, make acquaintance, make acquaintances, make an acquaintance
  • You mustn't live a moment longer without making his acquaintance.
  • I didn't just make her acquaintance a few months ago.
  • I made his acquaintance about 15 or 16 years since.
  • But he didn't want to make their acquaintance the hard way.
  • He considered trying to make her acquaintance, but two things moved against it.
  • Nor did I take any action toward making her acquaintance.
  • All that is possible, but how am I to make her acquaintance?
  • On the evening of the third, I made acquaintance with his wife in a visit to them.
  • Many men, it seems, have never made their own acquaintance.
  • But it took getting used to, and again, these were not the best conditions in which to make its acquaintance.
3. scrape acquaintance = znajomy szurać scrape acquaintance
4. cultivate one's acquaintance = uprawiać czyjś znajomy cultivate one's acquaintance
5. form an acquaintance = nawiąż znajomość form an acquaintance
(2) tell, visit, name, call
Kolokacji: 4
(3) claim, invite
Kolokacji: 2
adjetivo + acquaintance
Kolokacji: 39
old acquaintance • new acquaintance • mutual acquaintance • casual acquaintance • close acquaintance • ...
preposición + acquaintance
Kolokacji: 12
with acquaintances • to acquaintances • of one's acquaintance • from acquaintances • on acquaintance • ...

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