next-door neighbour
collocation in Englishmeaningsofnext doorandneighbour
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next-door
noun[U]
uk/ˌnekst ˈdɔːr/us/ˌnekst ˈdɔːr/
the person or people living in the next room, house, ...
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neighbour
noun[C]
uk/ˈneɪ.bər/us/ˈneɪ.bɚ/
someone who lives very close ...
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(Definition ofnext-doorandneighbourfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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People have sought to make thenext-doorneighbour'the other', and it's a powerful tendency.
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During that term the parents relied on anext-doorneighbour(whom they paid) to pick him up from school nursery and provide care until the parents finished work.
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Thenext-doorneighbourcomes out.
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He and his partner, who is expecting their first child, have been terrorised for months by theirnext-doorneighbour.
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Mynext-doorneighbourhas to ride up the hills.
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Hisnext-doorneighbouris a man who is within military age, but who has for some reason or other been rejected.
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A tenant complained to me that thenext-doorneighbourhad five dogs in the house during the weekend.
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For example, it might be that an ordinary house is built with part above the garage of thenext-doorneighbour.
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They feel it is wrong that theirnext-doorneighbourshould be doing it and that they should not.
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Misguided though he was, he went to the polling station with hisnext-doorneighbour, who had been a neighbour and a friend for years.
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We all agree that practically every soldier's wife has less on which to manage than hernext-doorneighbour.
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One family may not even know itsnext-doorneighbour, whereas in a village everybody knows everybody else.
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It proved to be mynext-doorneighbour, who had lost his dog.
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Apparently, thenext-doorneighbourwas curious about why someone should be taking photographs of the roof, and was completely unaware of the embedded installation.
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