verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
enjoy a boom
▪ Since then, China has enjoyed a remarkable boom.
enjoy a chat
▪ Most people enjoy a good chat.
enjoy a peaceful/quiet etc existence
▪ They enjoy a comfortable existence.
enjoy a reputation (=have it)
▪ The hotel enjoys a good reputation.
enjoy fame (=be famous)
▪ The town briefly enjoyed fame as the location of a popular television series.
enjoy freedom
▪ Filmmakers today enjoy more freedom than in the past.
enjoy good relations (=have good relations)
▪ For years, the company enjoyed good relations with its workers
enjoy popularity (=be popular)
▪ The band enjoyed great popularity in the 1980s.
enjoy sb’s company
▪ Steve was fun and she clearly enjoyed his company.
enjoy the benefits
▪ You’ll enjoy all the benefits of being a member.
enjoy the moment
▪ She found herself laughing with him, enjoying the moment.
enjoy your food
▪ I’ve never seen anyone enjoy their food so much.
enjoy/admire the view
▪ They sat enjoying the view down the valley.
enjoy/command supportformal (= have support)
▪ His views were too extreme to command general support.
enjoying a revival
▪ Traditional English food seems to be enjoying a revival at the moment.
enjoy/take in the scenery (=spend time looking at beautiful scenery)
▪ Relax with a glass of local wine while you take in the beautiful scenery.
like/enjoy cooking
▪ I enjoy cooking at the weekend.
like/love/enjoy nothing better (than)
▪ She likes nothing better than a nice long walk along the beach.
love/enjoy/relish a challenge
▪ Children enjoy a challenge so the work should not be too easy.
quite like/enjoy
▪ I quite like Chinese food.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
also
▪ And he has been set thereby in relationship to a deity, apart from himself, who also enjoys free will.
▪ The parties enjoyed also the benefit of free but limited television time.
▪ Business school graduates are also enjoying lucrative offers.
▪ She also enjoyed taking on occasional press and public relations assignments, and brings that experience to her present work.
▪ Likewise, devotees of Shellabarger and Yerby may also enjoy Forester and vintage Dumas. 2.
▪ They will also enjoy a competitive authorised overdraft interest rate of 10 per cent.
▪ The reverse is also true; those who prefer historical novels may also enjoy some Historical Romances.
always
▪ I always enjoyed walking the full length of the street to check how the other shops were faring.
▪ At Holy Trinity adult believers had always enjoyed a certain latitude.
▪ I always enjoyed that, having breakfast in bed.
▪ As a boy he had quit many things-the basketball team, the Episcopal youth group and always enjoyed the experience.
▪ She had always enjoyed men's company.
▪ I always enjoyed any operation we had in there; it was always cooler inside.
▪ I always enjoy reading your page in the Echo, will you please forward this letter to the Beeb.
▪ I had always enjoyed being in situations where I was free of the shackles of contrived good looks.
quite
▪ To Dorcas's amazement, now that the immediate danger was over, she seemed to be quite enjoying it.
▪ Certainly there is little coherence in her timetabled day: indeed perversely its very staccato pattern is a feature Susie quite enjoys.
▪ Caspar would quite enjoy hearing about that.
▪ He says he's quite enjoying it.
▪ I was even quite enjoying it.
▪ He had quite enjoyed that kind of jealousy for the first few months of their marriage.
▪ He was quite enjoying his lunch after all.
really
▪ I don't really enjoy it.
▪ I really enjoyed that, but musically I felt restricted.
▪ You're a doll and I really enjoyed knowing you.
▪ Highlight each of the skills you really enjoyed using.
▪ I take lessons twice a week, I really enjoy them.
▪ What he really enjoyed was the challenge and the stimulation of new problems to be solved in new and ingenious ways.
▪ Some children really enjoy helping to fill a box or shelves in the correct way.
▪ And all I see is a little girl who really enjoyed what she was doing.
still
▪ Golf has replaced hockey as her sport, and she still enjoys acting and painting and especially line drawing.
▪ But by being there first, the Big East still enjoys an advantage.
▪ Despite all the drawbacks, I still enjoy getting out and about in the countryside whenever I can.
▪ Swensson still enjoyed getting on the road.
▪ I am nearly 54 and still enjoying what I do.
▪ Many elderly people still enjoy a visit to the cinema, the theatre or a concert.
▪ Bruch still enjoyed this, loved playing corpse.
thoroughly
▪ She lifted it over the fence and set off across the little meadow, gathering speed and thoroughly enjoying it.
▪ He thoroughly enjoyed being a broker, and had never seriously considered management.
▪ I thoroughly enjoy cooking for her and she thoroughly enjoys eating it.
▪ I get a real kick out of it and thoroughly enjoy doing it.
▪ They cheered the solos, whooped-it-up for each selection and thoroughly enjoyed themselves.
▪ Your correspondent thoroughly enjoyed reading this 32 page history book which was written by Douglas Pickett and beautifully illustrated by Harry Tucker.
▪ She was thoroughly enjoying herself, she assured Amy, and had a very full social life.
■ NOUN
advantage
▪ Our growth projects will be in sectors where we enjoy the advantage of efficient technology and low-cost feedstocks.
▪ But by being there first, the Big East still enjoys an advantage.
▪ Most small towns of any significance lay on the principal roads; some also enjoyed the advantages provided by a nearby river.
▪ It permits the little boy to enjoy fully the advantages of the phallic development he is now entering.
▪ By contrast, metals enjoyed many advantages.
▪ Never can he enjoy the same advantages, however great his learning, when he pitches camp elsewhere.
▪ Rovers enjoyed a heavy advantage in penalties before half-time but it did not do them a lot of good.
▪ Dole and Gramm, to be sure, enjoy fund-raising advantages of their own, as powerful long-serving senators.
benefit
▪ But unlike their counterparts at Nissan and Toyota, none enjoys the full benefits of trade union membership.
▪ The Huskies enjoy the benefit of a devoted, vocal following.
▪ Over 8,000 people regularly enjoy the benefits of Medau classes - but - only 25% of them belong to the Medau Society.
▪ My sister Janie Ming-li also enjoyed the benefits of deep-seated superstition.
▪ Take your time choosing your ring and enjoy the benefit of receiving expert help and advice from the Beaverbrooks professionally trained staff.
▪ And the companies expect to enjoy direct benefits from their efforts.
▪ You do not have to be a separatist or even a lesbian to enjoy the benefits of graduated separatism.
▪ This exercise of economic power could be coercive, in the sense that A might prevent B from enjoying certain economic benefits.
child
▪ He is married with three children and enjoys gardening and cricket.
▪ Work-inhibited children who enjoy good relationships with their parents are likely to find their own way.
▪ Tipperary, Tom, who is married with four children, enjoys angling, cycling and gardening.
▪ If your child enjoys playing with trains, this is a marvelous opportunity to take advantage of that interest.
▪ Why does guidance act as a punisher since a child may enjoy the contact it brings?
▪ Although children under 3 can enjoy many of the activities, they might be frightened by the noise level.
▪ There is a special activity programme geared towards senior citizens, and children will enjoy the weekly Punch and Judy shows.
▪ Situations or sights that other children enjoyed terrified Hannah.
company
▪ I enjoy your company, this is where we should eat our meals, together, of course it is.
▪ He relied on Charlie, and enjoyed his company.
▪ At weekends when our daughter was at home from college, she too enjoyed the child's company.
▪ Although I am 40 and from a different age group, I actually enjoy his company in the dressing room.
▪ She had always enjoyed men's company.
▪ Johnnie Warburton used to work turn-about with him and they enjoyed each other's company.
▪ She and her husband Bob enjoy the company of their children and two grandchildren.
▪ He was fond of women; he enjoyed their company and he liked making love.
experience
▪ But she had enjoyed the experience, she realised now.
▪ He did not enjoy the experience, and he was not impressed by the other students and the setting.
▪ Both groups of pupils had enjoyed the experience.
▪ As a boy he had quit many things-the basketball team, the Episcopal youth group and always enjoyed the experience.
▪ They have clearly enjoyed the experience.
▪ You are also autonomous, like challenge, are confident, flexible and enjoy new experiences.
▪ Learn, enjoy the experience - and save money!
▪ They establish transcultural friendships and come not only to accept but to enjoy their experiences.
freedom
▪ Travel in our Silver Jubilee year and enjoy the freedom of the Railway when you buy an All-line ticket.
▪ Although she enjoyed her freedom, she missed her son.
▪ She enjoyed the freedom, but she dreaded being lonely.
▪ Now I really am enjoying my freedom.
▪ Like all other institutions, it can not enjoy absolute freedom.
▪ In contrast, self-defeating organizations enjoy no such freedom.
▪ Once you've got the rating, you know that you've never before enjoyed such flying freedom.
▪ Flood never enjoyed the freedom he sought in baseball, but his efforts paved the way for other court battles.
holiday
▪ For 12 years the Mellor family enjoyed holidays at Jim's seaside home with the builder and his wife.
▪ Elwin Silverstein, account executive with the Triad Insurance Group, enjoys the annual holiday brunch his employer hosts.
▪ Then it emerged that the Heritage Secretary and his family enjoyed two other luxury holidays courtesy of Middle East friends.
▪ They might even enjoy an annual seaside holiday week.
▪ Age &038; Fitness Active people of all ages enjoy these holidays.
▪ I looked my slimmest ever on my wedding day and thoroughly enjoyed my holiday.
▪ I could happily enjoy a really lazy holiday in Capraia.
▪ Apple Snails will enjoy a holiday in any tank over-run with algae, or unwanted plants.
life
▪ While men today enjoy later life as one of a couple, for women the experience is most often solitary.
▪ But with proper attention and treatment, people with narcolepsy enjoy a relatively normal life.
▪ He enjoyed life, a hundred percent, twenty-four hours a day.
▪ They enjoy country life and like to stay at home with friends.
▪ It is hardly news that a writer may enjoy an imaginative life richer, kinder than his pragmatic circumstance.
▪ Jane and her pupil enjoy each other; life is pleasant even if Jane does occasionally wish for more activity.
▪ He retired to enjoy his life.
▪ Each person enjoys natural rights to life, liberty, and property.
meal
▪ He may come in for a steak, but he wants to take his time and enjoy a leisurely meal.
▪ I struggled to remember the last time I had enjoyed a meal so thoroughly from start to finish.
▪ I don't think I've ever enjoyed a meal so much.
▪ I hope you enjoyed your meal.
▪ Once the hostess appeared to ask if we were enjoying our meals, and I managed to give her a silent nod.
▪ Zelah was a good cook and he enjoyed the meal.
▪ All in all, Fred was a good sport and said he enjoyed the meal.
minute
▪ He went down early each morning and jumped up and down in the briny, enjoying every minute of it.
▪ And I give it all I got and enjoy every minute of it.
▪ I got a goal and enjoyed every minute of it.
▪ I am losing my morals down here on this island and yet I am enjoying every single minute of it.
▪ I was allowed to enjoy one glorious minute giving my thoughts on Seattle.
▪ But we were careless and happy and full of fun, and enjoyed every minute of the day.
▪ Steve McFadden, who plays fiery Phil, enjoyed every minute of the dramatic storyline.
▪ Soon the drivers are in their stride and enjoying every minute of it.
people
▪ Interviews with people who profess to enjoy classical music turn up all sorts and conditions of appreciation.
▪ The irony we often fail to appreciate is that the more justice people enjoy, the fewer crimes they commit.
▪ Over 8,000 people regularly enjoy the benefits of Medau classes - but - only 25% of them belong to the Medau Society.
▪ Conversely, people who enjoy Mystery-Suspense may also like Romantic Mysteries.
▪ But remember that above all it is going to be a place where people are meant to enjoy their food.
▪ I sell books to people who enjoy reading them.
▪ Over 2,000 people enjoy an Avocet Cruise each winter.
▪ It is something people enjoy doing.
status
▪ Such jobs enjoy a higher status and may be considered more popular and glamorous than others.
▪ The other trainees enjoyed the status of almost free men.
▪ At present, only 2 percent of the country's forests enjoy any protected status.
▪ Nonprofit hospitals enjoy tax-exempt status in exchange for meeting such community needs.
▪ Anglican priests once enjoyed the status of country squires.
▪ In 1977, only 85 people enjoyed this fortunate tax status.
▪ Spinsters and widows enjoyed the legal status of femme sole in which they had control of their own affairs.
▪ True, the movie enjoyed a brief cult status.
success
▪ And exhibited a number of times at the Salon and enjoyed some success as a member of a prominent artists' organization.
▪ In between Kylie had enjoyed success in a few other minor television roles.
▪ It scared off other pianists until the late 1920s, when Horowitz began to enjoy great success with it.
▪ To be sure, the Amex has enjoyed some successes.
▪ Despite, though also because of, the small size of our school, it enjoys a great deal of running success.
▪ Murfreesboro has enjoyed economic success in recent years.
support
▪ Relationships - enjoying the support of other people.
▪ The great exodus was on, from city to suburb, aided by developers but also enjoying great public support.
▪ Consequently, these relationships enjoy unrestricted support and protection.
▪ Martin's campaign war chest enjoys strong support from industry, including mine managers and safety officers.
▪ The Socialist project of the Mitterrand government may be dead, but its cultural entrepreneurship continues to enjoy wide popular support.
▪ For 15 years, I have worked for a nonprofit civil-rights organization that regularly enjoys the co-counsel support of major law firms.
▪ Family allowances have never enjoyed unanimous support in the Labour movement.
▪ But Lott appears to enjoy the support of a majority of Senate Republicans, especially conservatives led by Sen.
view
▪ You enjoy the view and you are stimulated by it.
▪ Like Dora Chance in Wise Children, she enjoyed the view from the wrong side of the tracks.
▪ It is a fine time to sit down and enjoy the view.
▪ You can also enjoy a highly unusual view of the area through the cameraobscura at Foredown Tower and Countryside Centre.
▪ An experienced mountain climber, Gray rested, enjoying lunch and the view.
▪ Watching the other pair struggle, I decided it was better to enjoy the view and convince myself they were incompetent.
▪ We make it through the chute, cross Ca ada del Oro and enjoy the view of colorful changing sycamores.
■ VERB
continue
▪ Will he confirm that that squadron will continue to enjoy old and new opportunities?
▪ Despite his frustrated ambitions, Joe continued to enjoy his work.
▪ May they all long continue to enjoy working with us as much as we enjoy working with them.
▪ Two recent incidents have led me to question my responses in a job that I continue to enjoy and do well.
▪ Should we take the job in Paris and disrupt the family or stay where we are and continue to enjoy that community?
▪ As long as the country continues to enjoy prosperity sufficient to accommodate both agricultural and industrial sectors large-scale open conflict is unlikely.
▪ For the moment, however, Solidarity and Czechoslovakia's Civic Forum continue to enjoy huge credit.
hope
▪ Find enclosed the member's card for the Cool cats club and two newsletters! hope you enjoy reading!
▪ I hope you enjoy them as much as I did.
▪ Founder and director Lesley Scott-Ordish hoped we had enjoyed a good night, and we had.
▪ I hope you are enjoying the trip thus far.
▪ I hope that you enjoy the feature on Goran elsewhere in this issue.
▪ Lois thought again about the poetry course over at the university she had hoped to enjoy in her latter years.
▪ I hope the inhabitants enjoy it as much, Utopia.
▪ To my dearest grandsons: I hope you will enjoy this book when you get older.
seem
▪ But he had how own procedures, and he seemed to enjoy them.
▪ As the evening wore on and audience laughter grew, Cosby seemed loosened and actually seemed to be enjoying himself.
▪ They seemed to enjoy both co-operating with teachers and wielding power over juniors.
▪ It seemed like everything I enjoyed in the world was turning out to be wrong.
▪ He had duly entered the army from school, and seemed to enjoy the life.
▪ Indeed, she laughs and seems to enjoy it.
▪ Festive Food Everyone seems to enjoy special foods at Christmas time - from roast turkey to stuffed dates and other sweet treats.
▪ He seemed to enjoy rather than avoid loud noises.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
afford/have/enjoy the luxury of sth
▪ Defenders have the luxury of double-teaming Riley.
▪ In the criminal trial, the prosecution did not have the luxury of depositions.
▪ Is this what women became if afforded the luxury of turned tables?
▪ The human species can no longer afford the luxury of such long double-takes or the leisurely changes of heart of entrenched scientists.
▪ They couldn't afford the luxury of open-market values.
▪ They did have the luxury of hit and run.
▪ We do not have the luxury of thinking our problems will miraculously be solved by better times ahead.
▪ When I painted it was for myself, I could afford the luxury of spending two years on a painting.
love/enjoy/hate etc every minute (of sth)
▪ And even when the tires went flat or the road grew rough, we loved every minute of the journey.
▪ And he thoroughly enjoyed every minute of it.
▪ And I give it all I got and enjoy every minute of it.
▪ But we were careless and happy and full of fun, and enjoyed every minute of the day.
▪ He went down early each morning and jumped up and down in the briny, enjoying every minute of it.
▪ I got a goal and enjoyed every minute of it.
▪ I know we all enjoyed every minute of the three hectic months.
▪ The first mile was pure pain and I hated every minute of it.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Did you enjoy the party?
▪ Greg says he enjoys his new job.
▪ It was a wonderful vacation - we enjoyed every minute of it.
▪ Most of the students said that they had really enjoyed the day out.
▪ My father always enjoyed playing golf at weekends.
▪ Parts of the play were extremely funny. I enjoyed it immensely.
▪ Some of the workers enjoy a relatively high degree of job security.
▪ Thanks for a lovely evening. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
▪ The park was full of people enjoying themselves in the sunshine.
▪ The team has enjoyed some success this season.
▪ When first introduced on the market, these products enjoyed great success.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Many parents are only too eager to hand their child over to a babysitter and enjoy a well-earned night out.
▪ Now and then he would smile, as though enjoying some dark secret thought.
▪ Successfully managing your business relationships, while making money doing what you enjoy, is one of the great pleasures of life.
▪ The student said that he had actually enjoyed the class, and he refused to testify before a panel.
▪ They enjoy the bright colours and sweet smelling flowers.
▪ They were not even deterred by some afternoon rain but carried on enjoying themselves kitted out in colourful Mickey Mouse ponchos.
▪ Thus those who have substantial property holdings will receive the highest economic rewards and enjoy superior life chances.
▪ With such spontaneous performances the players clearly enjoying themselves - the pieces are easy to enjoy.