birthday present
collocation in Englishmeaningsofbirthdayandpresent
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birthday
noun[C]
uk/ˈbɜːθ.deɪ/us/ˈbɝːθ.deɪ/
the day that is exactly a year or number of years after a person ...
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present
noun
uk/ˈprez.ənt/us/ˈprez.ənt/
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something that you are given, without asking for it, on a special occasion, especially to show friendship, or to say ...
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(Definition ofbirthdayandpresentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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What a wonderfulbirthdaypresentthat would be for my constituents on the 51st anniversary of the national health service.
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I have wanted to see that for a long time, and it is a very goodbirthdaypresentto me.
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They cannot even send their grandchildren abirthdaypresent.
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However, he has left us dangling in uncertainty about hisbirthdaypresentfrom his new private office.
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It was my fortieth birthday, and the meeting provided me with a rather tragicbirthdaypresent.
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Onebirthdaypresentmay be more beautiful than any other in ever y way, and be cheaper to boot.
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This is why buying a bestseller novel as abirthdaypresentfor relatives pollutes one's own ' ' model of interest' '.
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Perhaps one should choose thebirthdaypresentthat will do the most to promote one's friend's happiness.
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If, on the other hand, values are plural and thus incommensurable, then several values may be relevant to the choice of a goodbirthdaypresent.
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For example, if an officer's mum wants to give him abirthdaypresent, she might give him a fiver.
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I am delighted that we are able to give him this finebirthdaypresent.
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I was once given a flying lesson as abirthdaypresent.
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It was the greatestbirthdaypresentshe has ever had.
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As abirthdaypresentto his stepson, he threw him out.
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It is not a greatbirthdaypresentto that body that we are in our present position.
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The promise of a new set of powers to make it more effective would be a welcomebirthdaypresent.
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Surely, when we have given independence on previous occasions, we have normally given some sort ofbirthdaypresentwhich launches a territory on its way.
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Was this a littlebirthdaypresentto me?
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It would be somebirthdaypresentto criminalise a previously non-criminal relationship.
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That is one-fifth of the proposed firstbirthdaypresentof £500,000, or whatever it is—we do not yet knew properly: it is all so vague.
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