noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a tourist/travel/visitor's visa
▪ He applied for a tourist visa.
a visitor attraction
▪ The park will be a new visitor attraction for the town.
a visitor centre
▪ The forest has a visitor centre with information and refreshment facilities.
closed to the public/visitors etc
▪ The castle is closed to visitors in winter.
frequent visitor
▪ She was a frequent visitor to the house.
health visitor
prison visitor
receive guests/visitors
▪ She isn’t well enough to receive visitors yet.
regular customer/visitor
▪ He’s one of the bar’s regular customers.
visitors' book
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
foreign
▪ A quarter of our unemployment bill would be paid for by foreign visitors!
▪ The Treasury Department announced Thursday it has implemented new requirements intended to restrict firearm purchases by foreign visitors.
▪ The island is beginning to see an increase in foreign visitors, but as yet very little development has taken place.
▪ We all knew we had foreign visitors among us.
▪ Many foreign visitors, intrigued by her story, used to visit Maria Clementina.
▪ The result is evident in the back streets and courtyards, which Atalla judiciously avoids with a foreign visitor.
▪ But 2 have now been confiscated from foreign visitors after fights in Oxford in the past eleven days.
▪ According to state statistics, Massachusetts had nearly 27 million domestic visitors in 1994, against 1 million foreign visitors.
frequent
▪ Florence was a frequent visitor ... and had many of her ideas adopted in Parliament through the devotion of her brother-in-law.
▪ Those of them who live in Calcutta are frequent visitors to Motherhouse, especially on festivals and feast days.
▪ Malachi was a more frequent visitor.
▪ And the child, Fritha, or Frith, was a frequent visitor.
▪ Dolly was a frequent visitor to the house and there would be long conferences.
▪ We have been frequent visitors at Government House and have been staying also at their cottage, New Norfolk.
▪ Landladies were among the more frequent visitors to Bloomsbury House as the records indicate: Often, lodging and employment went together.
▪ After the election, I became a frequent visitor to Downing Street.
overseas
▪ The question of using overseas visitors for advocacy had arisen and was discussed.
▪ Many graduate students and overseas visitors have worked on aspects of the ecology of this field.
▪ All subsequent communications about overseas visitors itineraries to be conducted with Coordinators only.
regular
▪ He was a regular visitor, escorting the girls to the theatre and parties.
▪ One of the bungalows, which once boasted Walter Annenberg as a regular visitor, even comes with its own lap pool.
▪ He was such a regular visitor that he was given his own pit boots and locker.
▪ Within a few weeks they were regular visitors.
▪ One regular visitor to la strega, and later to Signora Grignaffini, was Amelia.
▪ Once I brought them home to our flat, they soon lost their bounce and the doctor became a regular visitor.
▪ Of that, perhaps 5,000 people are regular visitors, Harris said.
▪ He was a regular visitor at Dotty Harmer's, glorying in the variety of animals to be found there.
■ NOUN
centre
▪ The opening of Lydney Lakeside, plus the excellent visitors centre at Norchard, had brought in many extra passengers and revenue.
▪ Turn right at the next track junction to return to the visitor centre.
▪ A fine example is the new visitor centre at St Andrews Castle.
▪ The civic visitors were given an extensive tour of the showroom, factory, visitor centre and museum.
▪ A new visitor centre with interpretation facilities will be open from 1st June, 1992.
▪ Try the shortest route from St Abb's visitor centre, or split the full walk into two separate excursions.
▪ A visitor centre provides a fascinating insight into this traditional farming method.
▪ Seven miles away at Aviemore there is a visitor centre and entertainment complex with a full range of sports facilities.
health
▪ The services included midwives, health visitors, district nurses and various clinics.
▪ It is written in a reassuring way that should positively assist nurses, midwives and health visitors and allay understandable anxieties.
▪ The implications of these reforms for all nurses, midwives and health visitors are enormous.
▪ Ealing social services informed Hackney social workers and the health visitor that the family would be temporarily in the borough.
▪ We are told that there are 28,000 qualified district nurses and health visitors.
▪ The role of health visitors with older people remains unresolved.
▪ This is what the health visitor keeps saying to me.
▪ So talk to your doctor, midwife or health visitor, or your family planning clinic, about contraception.
winter
▪ The turnstones are winter visitors to Britain.
▪ As many as 70% of winter visitors may have taken the discount.
▪ The three native species are all winter visitors in the central and southern parts of the region.
▪ The arrival and departure of winter visitors overlaps passage, but peak winter counts are usually made in December or January.
▪ The local breeding stock appears to disperse in July and August and winter visitors may start to arrive in September.
▪ Peak numbers occur between December and February, and most winter visitors have departed by late March.
▪ The arrival of winter visitors clearly overlaps a marked autumn passage.
■ VERB
allow
▪ Open steel mesh on the walkway decking allows visitors to see through to the supporting trusses and forest floor below.
▪ Secured by cables, the platform will allow visitors to hover 50 feet above a swampy abyss filled with leeches and snakes.
▪ Audio visual and special effects will allow visitors to realistically experience life at sea.
▪ Center manager Ivey Delgado said the improvements will allow visitors to participate in a variety of activities without disturbing one another.
▪ Perspex screens will allow visitors to see into the worst-hit rooms.
▪ Within the hall, simulators allow visitors to experience the excitement of a bobsled run or ski jump.
▪ You were allowed up to three visitors at a time and had to sit opposite them at individual tables.
▪ A museum allows visitors to watch an ongoing excavation by paleontologists.
attract
▪ Open only two months, the centre has already attracted more than 20,000 visitors.
▪ The result is an on-line meeting place that attracts visitors from all over the world.
▪ The city hopes to attract around 3.5 million visitors annually, but last year's figures were little short of disastrous.
▪ That accomplishment, begun innocently enough, now likewise attracts hundreds of visitors a year.
▪ The Shaw Festival attracts visitors to the colonial charm of Niagara-on-the-Lake.
▪ Today there is much within Belfast to attract visitors and citizens alike.
▪ In 1991 the event attracted over 18,000 visitors.
▪ Some places have even seen the publicity over new fees attracting extra visitors.
bring
▪ The idea is that the various farm based tourist attractions get together to help bring in the visitors.
▪ They feel fixing the area will bring in more visitors, which in turn will inspire new businesses to open.
▪ I have brought visitors with me.
▪ The first day of September brought visitors.
▪ But medicines are not available through the prison and have to be brought in by visitors.
▪ Our stay in Shingu brought unusual visitors to see the raft.
▪ Luke seems to be bringing a visitor.
▪ And the 1992 celebration, featuring a parade down Main Street, brought visitors from throughout the United States.
draw
▪ This celebrated instrument draws visitors from around the world.
▪ They estimate it would draw 100 visitors on weekdays, with 250 on weekends.
▪ At Paris, which drew 1.1 million visitors, Renault gave away no fewer than 120 tonnes of brochures.
▪ Lourdes is one of the most popular pilgrimage sites for Catholics in the world, drawing over four million visitors a year.
▪ A light spacious reception and shop area with friendly staff draws visitors right inside the building.
▪ The state has long relied on its scenic beauty to draw visitors and attract business.
▪ The trend is ever upwards, as East Berlin draws more and more visitors.
▪ The park, located between Philadelphia and New York City, draws visitors from throughout the region.
expect
▪ He would expect his visitor to come back through the door to the kitchen.
▪ I was told to expect visitors.
▪ As Brassard was leaving, he warned the security man at the front entrance that Celia was expecting a visitor.
▪ Worst of all, less than half the number of expected visitors turned up.
▪ He peered sideways at the nearest street light as if he was expecting another visitor.
▪ The city expects 2 million visitors and offers, within its 55-mile radius, only 55, 000 hotel rooms.
▪ Shieldaig did not expect visitors and there was no welcome for strangers.
▪ It was as if I had been expecting visitors.
greet
▪ I recalled how Masko had gone through into the baggage hall at Heathrow to greet the Sochi visitors.
▪ A sophomore at Goucher College, she greets a visitor gravely, then gives a tiny, charming hop of excitement.
▪ It's now the centrepiece of a country park which greets 100,000 visitors a year.
▪ I think it is our duty to greet such a distinguished visitor.
▪ Nesta greeted the visitors with hugs and kisses.
▪ M University campus, will begin greeting visitors later this year.
offer
▪ Whereas traditional politicians offer visitors green tea, the Reform of Heisei serves black coffee.
▪ The Downtown Partnership even has begun offering visitors free escorts from parking lots to entertainment events.
▪ The town has been carefully designed to offer its visitors every amenity.
▪ Area jazz clubs and coffeehouses offer live music while visitors can catch a movie at one of two main theater complexes.
▪ For your convenience, a local bed booking service is also offered to visitors.
▪ Tram tours, which offer visitors a 25-minute orientation tour of the entire garden property, cost $ 1 per person.
▪ Yet the local authority in Novosibirsk had wanted to prevent this being offered to visitors to our exhibition.
▪ It offers visitor information, travel updates, a calendar of events and more.
receive
▪ He could receive visitors and was allowed out of jail from time to time, even occasionally to preach in London.
▪ Since the shop opened in 1989, it has received over 200,000 visitors from all over Britain and overseas.
▪ He was delighted to receive visitors but charged Mike £50 for the opportunity to photograph him.
▪ On the third day of his illness, Harry received his first visitor: Alan Dysart.
▪ One snowy morning footprints and tyre marks were imprinted in the snow even though Ted had received no visitor at the box.
▪ She did, however, often visit friends and members of her family, as well as receive visitors at Weston.
▪ Six spacious executive homes by Berkeley at Brightwell near Wallingford have also been well received by early visitors to the site.
▪ She was not even allowed to receive female visitors.
welcome
▪ Fourteen Business Briefs include topics such as writing a business letter, welcoming visitors etc.
▪ Today, with grace restored, it welcomes visitors with aplomb.
▪ We welcome disabled visitors to whom we offer excellent purpose-built accommodation with parking adjacent to all rooms.
▪ There will also be live tunes, a raffle, plenty of grub, and several homes and studio sites welcoming visitors.
▪ There is a haunting beauty about Caernarfon today, and it welcomes many thousands of visitors from many countries each year.
▪ Can we welcome a visitor at any time without worry?
▪ Teign Machine Knitters welcome visitors to the area who are missing their knitting to join them for an evening.
▪ The white-garbed nuns fluttered around us excitedly, pleased to welcome visitors to their famous house.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
surprise guest/visitor etc
▪ Catherine's lively grandma Zeta, 84, right, surprised guests too.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Colette offered her visitor a glass of wine.
▪ Doug, I think you have a visitor.
▪ I've been asked to show some important visitors round the department.
▪ We have nowhere for visitors to sleep at the moment as the spare room is being decorated.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But visitors to the hills outside town are greeted by unpaved roads and signs warning trespassers to keep out.
▪ It was the visitors who pressed for the meeting.
▪ Its size indicated that no extra visitors were expected.
▪ Some places have even seen the publicity over new fees attracting extra visitors.
▪ Stages and canal boats had been crowded with visitors descending on the twin communities.
▪ The more expensive we make the United States, the fewer international visitors we will attract.
▪ These were painted with white numbers and made simple bathing rings for the visitors.