"entertain" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

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entertain + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 40
entertain guests • entertain audiences • entertain friends • entertain hopes • entertain the idea • entertain children • ...
(5) visitor, tourist
Kolokacji: 2
(6) doubt, question
Kolokacji: 2
(7) troop, crowd, man, soldier
Kolokacji: 4
(8) offer, proposal, bid
Kolokacji: 3
3. entertain bids = zabaw oferty entertain bids
  • The Lewises say that as 1997 nears, they expect prices to go even higher, and then they will entertain bids.
  • It will be very difficult to match the American Home bid through cost-cutting and restructuring, so you have to go on to entertain competing bids.
  • It said it would then entertain bids for just the company's tobacco business, which produces such brands as Camel and Winston cigarettes.
  • Ultimately the Defense Department covers these costs when it entertains bids for new weapons systems.
  • "The rivalry between these identity firms is fierce," said one executive who entertained bids from several of the consultants for a recent corporate name change.
  • It would also entertain bids for the entire portfolio.
  • The government in one Australian state has said that it will no longer entertain French bids on a $9 billion water privatization project.
  • Under bankruptcy law, however, the court must entertain competing bids.
  • Executives at Hearst, which announced this fall that it would entertain bids for its book divisions, refused to comment, as they always do.
  • However, the door was opened, and the board decided it had to entertain other bids at that point.
(9) millions, thousands
Kolokacji: 2
entertain + preposición
Kolokacji: 19
entertain at • entertain with • entertain on • entertain in • entertain for • ...
entertain + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 14
frequently entertain • entertain lavishly • seriously entertain • once entertain • regularly entertain • ...

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