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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
semi-final
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a semi-final match (=between two of the last four teams left in a competition)
▪ Spain beat Russia in their semi-final match last night.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
other
▪ The other semi-final was a much more straight forward affair, with Staffordshire demolishing Buckinghamshire by 148 runs at Walsall.
▪ Team Components Bureau and Streamline Hazlehead meet in the other semi-final, neither side having won the trophy.
▪ In the other semi-final, Terry Griffiths faces John Parrott.
▪ Not much to choose either between Ards and Cliftonville who meet at the Oval in the other semi-final on Friday night.
▪ The Betts take on the Piggotts in the other semi-final.
▪ In the other semi-final, Jan Timman leads Jonathan Speelman, also by 2-1.
■ NOUN
cup
▪ Action from last night's Premier Cup semi-final at Cornard.
▪ His penetrating run set up the Palace equaliser in the 1990 cup semi-final against scouse.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Colchester were defeated in the semi-final of the runners-up competition by Rochford, the eventual winners.
▪ For the management careers of both Dave Stringer and Malcolm Crosby, this is likely to be a crucial semi-final.
▪ It was his cool nerve that saw his club through a nervous semi-final against Coleraine.
▪ The arrangements for the sale of cup final tickets were introduced after a furore over the ticket sales for the semi-final.
▪ The Crusaders-Portadown semi-final of the competition is scheduled for the Oval on Tuesday September 21.
▪ The first three in each heat will qualify for a regional semi-final in September.
▪ The other semi-final was a much more straight forward affair, with Staffordshire demolishing Buckinghamshire by 148 runs at Walsall.
Wiktionary
semi-final

n. (alternative spelling of semifinal English)

Usage examples of "semi-final".

In the wash-up, Cathy ran the 13th fastest time, yet missed the 16-strong semi-finals field.

But just when it began to seem as though the holes in my life were too big to be plugged, even by football, Arsenal’s anxiety to distract me became frenzied: between 9th April and 1st May they played six semi-final games, four against Liverpool in the FA Cup and two against Juventus in the Cup-Winners Cup.

With Melinda Gainsford, who had made the semi-finals in the 100m and 200m, Australia had a strong team.

Notable in that relay was a powerful 400m leg by Gainsford who had previously made the semi-finals of the 100m and 200m.

But that week also had a beneficially purgative side effect: after six solid weeks of semi-finals and finals, of listening to the radio and looking for Wembley tickets, the football clutter was gone and there was nothing with which to replace it.

Even Cup semi-finals, or Championship deciders, weren’t televised live.

The first five in each race would contest two semi-finals, and fifteen of the fastest, strongest clansmen would run the final on the last day.