broken window

collocation in English

meaningsofbrokenandwindow

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broken
adjective
uk
/ˈbrəʊ.kən/us
/ˈbroʊ.kən/
damaged, no longer able ...
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window
noun
uk
/ˈwɪn.dəʊ/us
/ˈwɪn.doʊ/
a space usually filled with glass in the wall of a building or in a vehicle, to allow light and air in and to allow people inside the building to ...
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(Definition ofbrokenandwindowfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofbroken window

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Allegedly, they had come about abrokenwindow.
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Damages for abrokenwindowor worse can be recovered.
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Thebrokenwindowwould create work for the glazier.
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The ventilation is also probably very defective, but the school had the advantage of abrokenwindow.
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If onebrokenwindowis left broken, the following week the next window will be broken.
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Great derelict mills withbrokenwindow-panes, deserted mine shafts, do not create an atmosphere such as modern industrialists need—that of the up-to-date well-lighted, well-aired factory often of only one storey.
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Had to climb in through thebrokenwindow!
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We freely discussed everything from the appointment of new staff or the violent behaviour of a problem pupil to the latestbrokenwindow.
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In one bed, under abrokenwindow, sleep four children, one boy and three girls, two at the head and two at the foot.
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One constituent told me that council workmen arrived to mend abrokenwindowand decided that a new window frame was needed.
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There is also the case of the driver of a lorry which had abrokenwindowthe draught from which set up an attack of fibrositis.
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Accommodation which provides the best structural protection against blast and splinter is being selected, and it is also proposed to provide against the dangers of gas andbrokenwindowglass.
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After cleaning off the graffiti, why should the perpetrator not pay also for thebrokenwindowor the damaged stock in the shop?
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It has been exploited to a point where local authorities—no doubt political friends of the party opposite—have granted certificates of disrepair for such things as onebrokenwindowcord.
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One classroom sustained abrokenwindowand fire damage.
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Thebrokenwindowglasses, the partly corroded steel window frames were replaced/strengthened.
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The cost of conscription can be related to the parable of thebrokenwindow.
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No one was hurt, and the damage sustained by the building was abrokenwindow.
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The church survived without even abrokenwindow.
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However, this belief is often given as an example of thebrokenwindowfallacy.
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