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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
neighbouring
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
area
▪ Are we discussing implications of 192 with our neighbouring areas?
▪ More striking still was the failure of the Green movement to link up with Kursk or any other neighbouring area.
▪ So shopkeepers have joined forces to attract people into the town, with a special publication circulated in neighbouring areas.
▪ In these cases, provision of public services in one area confers a beneficial externality on neighbouring areas.
country
▪ Considerable concern focused on the effect the change would have on neighbouring countries.
▪ Other neighbouring countries hanged their criminals, of course.
▪ The thieves led the horses out of the stable into the neighbouring country park, where they had vehicles waiting.
▪ None the less, unofficial exports between neighbouring countries are likely to continue to increase, but to go largely unrecorded.
▪ Pray that the conflict would not spread to neighbouring countries.
▪ Most refugees go to neighbouring countries, which are often living at subsistence levels themselves.
▪ On a far more extensive scale than we have done hitherto, we must help refugees in their own and neighbouring countries.
house
▪ Let us imagine two neighbouring houses.
▪ On the left was the neighbouring house, on the right the front garden of the farm.
▪ He had seen a few curtains moving in neighbouring houses.
▪ The blaze also spread to a neighbouring house, damaging three windows and some plastic guttering.
▪ Mrs Bahia lived in a neighbouring house.
▪ It is probably not a coincidence that, where the song was recorded, a trimphone is installed in a neighbouring house.
▪ Bomb wrecks Ulster hotel A bomb has wrecked a hotel in Ulster and damage neighbouring houses.
▪ There was a party for the servants in a neighbouring house, and a few of us were invited to it.
parish
▪ In his last years he lived in Wymondham and continued to preach in Wymondham Abbey and neighbouring parishes.
▪ A neighbouring parish may have its last year's experience to report.
▪ The priest obviously bussed in from the neighbouring parish to run the show here.
▪ I took the bus to the neighbouring parish and told an unseen, unknown priest all that had happened.
▪ It is often reflected in parishes or estates with detached portions elsewhere, or areas shared in common with neighbouring parishes.
▪ Recent local studies have emphasized how different the fortunes of neighbouring parishes could be.
property
▪ Another example is where a burst pipe occurs in our policyholder's home causing water damage to neighbouring property.
▪ This deals with those facilities enjoyed exclusively by the property to be sold over neighbouring property.
▪ Due to the negligence of the defendant's employees, borstal trainees escaped and caused damage to neighbouring property.
▪ I assure my hon. Friend that lighting schemes will be designed to minimise visual intrusion into neighbouring property.
school
▪ It's surprising how little most teachers know about neighbouring schools.
▪ There is nothing wrong in seeking an invitation to go and look around a neighbouring school to explore possibilities of working together.
▪ A useful activity is to pull together the governors of several neighbouring schools for training and updating on topical issues.
▪ Defensive marketing check list Have you copies of the prospectuses of neighbouring schools including those in the private sector?
▪ Exam results are looked at closely, subject by subject, and comparisons are made with previous years and with neighbouring schools.
▪ Such development planning commits the school to improvement and to constructive competition against itself rather than against the neighbouring school.
state
▪ It covers fisheries, marine mammals and other resources within EEZs, providing for stocks that are shared by neighbouring states.
▪ My best bet would probably be to fly into one of the neighbouring states and sneak over the border at night.
▪ Relations between the two neighbouring states had been tense in recent years because of the Bougainville conflict.
town
▪ According to security sources, massive bombs which wrecked neighbouring towns, had been destined for Portadown.
▪ The neighbouring town of Hesket New Market has a delightful pub with its own brewed beer.
▪ On the day before Republic Day, the police presence around Bhilai and the neighbouring towns is heavy.
▪ Other occupations are of necessity followed in the neighbouring towns so to some extent Lockington is a commuter village.
village
▪ Eventually the committee agreed to defer a decision to see if the school could team up with neighbouring villages to boost numbers.
▪ Recently he moved to the neighbouring village of Griesbeckerzell with wife Gisela and their year-old son, Stefan.
▪ She was admitted to an exclusive private clinic in a neighbouring village.
▪ They had little in common with neighbouring villages whose squires kept the collieries and colliers out of sight.
▪ The crowds were out in force to cheer home Jodami as he reached the neighbouring village of Stillington.
▪ Strangers, surely, from other farms, neighbouring villages.
▪ The neighbouring village of Kalami, once the home of naturalist Gerald Durrell, is worth a visit too.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The fair attracted thousands of people from neighbouring areas.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A neighbouring farmer had a lucky escape.
▪ But it was a time of several kingdoms and Princess Thanew was proposed to by a neighbouring king.
▪ Guests are welcome to use the facilities of the neighbouring Hotel Maria Theresia which include free sauna and steambath.
▪ Mike Chittenden staggered in flames into a neighbouring office where terrified workers doused the flames.
▪ Moktadir, who was seriously threatened by the neighbouring kingdoms of Navarre and Aragon, gladly accepted.
▪ Pray that the conflict would not spread to neighbouring countries.
▪ The thieves led the horses out of the stable into the neighbouring country park, where they had vehicles waiting.
▪ Their craggy Nab, poised above the Tees estuary, was as proud a landmark as neighbouring Roseberry Topping.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
neighbouring

neighbour \neighbour\, neighbouring \neighbouring\, neighbourhood \neighbourhood\, neighbourly \neighbourly\ Same as neighbor, neighboring, neighborhood, neighborly. [Chiefly Brit.]

Wiktionary
neighbouring

  1. 1 (context British Canada English) Situated or living nearby or adjacent to. 2 (alternative spelling of neighboring English) alt. 1 (context British Canada English) Situated or living nearby or adjacent to. 2 (alternative spelling of neighboring English) v

  2. 1 (context British Canada English) (present participle of neighbour English) 2 (alternative spelling of neighboring English)

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WordNet
neighbouring

adj. situated near one another; "neighbor states" [syn: neighbor, neighbour, neighboring(a), neighbouring(a)]

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Usage examples of "neighbouring".

Christmas Eve the Soviets have overrun the neighbouring airfield at Tazinskaja, 30 miles west, where a transport squadron of our command is stationed.

While you were treating them it would have spread to neighbouring farms, then all over the country.

The Ameer of the neighbouring country of Afghanistan claims the sovereignty over the khanates Shugnan and Roshan, which form the larger portion of the Pamirs.

Wherever the horse was stopped, Arjun fought and conquered, and thus proclaimed the supremacy of Yudhishthir over all neighbouring potentates.

He had nothing for it but to endeavour to be the first to convey the already-blown news to Sir John Peachy, sheriff for Kent: his pains were rewarded by his being detained prisoner as a suspected person, while Sir John mustered his yeomanry, and, together with the neighbouring gentry and their retainers, marched towards Hythe, The wavering people, awed by this show of legal and military power, grew cool towards the White Rose, whose name, linked to change and a diminution of taxation, had for a moment excited their enthusiasm.

I went to a neighbouring house where a woman received me in an empty room, which she told me she would let cheaply if I would pay three months in advance, and bring in my own furniture.

Even a group of several neighbouring cistrons can expect to live many generations before being broken up by crossing over.

Neighbouring cistrons on the same chromosome form a tightly-knit troupe of travelling companions who seldom fail to get on board the same vessel when meiosis time comes around.

In the beginning of March the carl of Athlone and monsieur de Coehorn, with the concurrence of the duke of Holstein-Ploen, who commanded the allies, sent a strong detachment of horse, drafted from Brussels and the neighbouring garrisons, to amuse the enemy on the side of Charleroy, while they assembled forty squadrons, thirty battalions, with fifteen pieces of cannon, and six mortars, in the territory of Namur.

The distances to the neighbouring villages of Darnick and Newstead, and across the Tweed to Gattonsville, seemed so shrunken.

I thought of the delapidated farmlands and tumbledown cottages that lay around Melthorpe and its neighbouring villages.

Astor and his band played three gigs on successive nights, the first at the Astoria and the next two at venues of similar size in neighbouring towns.

Without this clue to the character of the revolution, the remark of Milton that the wars of the Saxon heptarchy were as unintelligible as those of kites in a neighbouring wood, would apply to the proceedings of the Parisians.

Vernai asked me to follow him into a neighbouring apartment, and to leave the other guests at the table.

After supper I told him that he and his daughter were to sleep in the room in which we were sitting, while I would pass the night in a neighbouring closet.