worried parent

collocation in English

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worried
adjective
uk
/ˈwʌr.id/us
/ˈwɝː.id/
unhappy because you are thinking about problems or unpleasant things that ...
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parent
noun[C]
uk
/ˈpeə.rənt/us
/ˈper.ənt/
a mother or father of a person or an animal, or someone who looks after a person in the same way that a ...
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All the ski hires offer free helmet rental for children, which is an excellent safety measure for worried parents.
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Security around the schools in the area was also beefed up to assure worried parents.
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He arrives home much later than usual to frazzled, worried parents.
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Worried parents of unmarried children often arrange dates for their offspring on this day as well as others.
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Angel went to her home and found her worried parents surrounded by missing posters.
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It will not be offensive to aworriedparentbecause aworriedparenthas no business to be there and almost certainly will not be there.
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There are worried parents all over the county borough who demand it.
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If the child is not achieving a satisfactory standard, what do desperately worried parents do?
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Luckily, we resolved that problem within half a term, but such intervention should not be left to worried parents.
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I have received hundreds of letters from worried parents who do not blame the county council.
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It leaves worried parents devastated as they watch helplessly the drifting wreckage and the flotsam and jetsam of their children's lives.
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It is critical also in the minds of the people of this country and of the worried parents of the hostages.
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I know that there are many worried parents, siblings, friends and teachers.
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I received letters from worried parents about this form of unsolicited propaganda peddling.
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I would call that a more than significant number of worried parents.
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They can display the basic information needed by worried parents; they can make that information available locally and can tell such people where to seek help for their child.
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It is a trigger mechanism, which aims to provide aggrieved and worried parents with the opportunity to seek legal redress where access to next of kin is denied.
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They have only now become interested because some worried parents came to my surgery and because they wish to take advantage of the teachers' dispute for electoral mileage.
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Worried parents try to remedy the situation but do not succeed.
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The plan produced a mixed reaction, with support from many worried parents but ethical concerns from a number of children's societies.
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