football match

collocation in English

meaningsoffootballandmatch

These words are often used together. Click on the links below to explore the meanings. Or,see other collocations withmatch.
football
noun
uk
/ˈfʊt.bɔːl/us
/ˈfʊt.bɑːl/
UK
a game played between two teams of eleven people, where each team tries to win by kicking a ball into the other ...
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match
noun
uk
/mætʃ/us
/mætʃ/
mainly UK
a sports competition or event in which two people or teams compete against ...
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(Definition offootballandmatchfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoffootball match

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An example of a kind of report in a newspaper is coverage of afootballmatch.
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The students have to write a program to provide answers to questions like which teams have lost afootballmatchat home?
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The key question, whether in a soap opera or afootballmatch, a quiz or a cop show is what happens next.
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No science addresses the challenge of understanding afootballmatchon the basis of the activity of billions of physical particles.
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Let me come back to the image of thefootballmatch.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
So let us not fling statistics about like insults at afootballmatch.
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I ask that question because in my own city more people attend the cinemas in one evening than those who attend a juniorfootballmatch.
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We had to pay a dollar each to watch this schoolfootballmatch.
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When they have not been called they carry on a conversation as if they were at afootballmatch.
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Is it not rather like afootballmatchin which the referee has got all his bets on one side to win?
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He took as an illustration afootballmatch.
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We are simply preventing someone from going abroad to watch afootballmatch.
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I am on record as using the analogy of afootballmatch.
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He reads about afootballmatchin the newspapers and decides to go to see it.
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That was nothing to do with afootballmatch.
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It will make going to afootballmatchmore enjoyable than it has been for many years.
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No one at present has an absolute right to go to afootballmatch.
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Although the additional policing that accompanies afootballmatchbenefits the local community, there are also disbenefits.
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It is like afootballmatchwhere the rules allow only one goal for a side to score in.
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