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Collocations for attitude - noun

ADJ.

conciliatory, favourable, friendly, positive, responsible, right, sympathetic
She seems to have the right attitude for the job.
aggressive, bad, belligerent, cavalier, critical, hostile, irreverent, negative, patronizing, wrong | carefree, casual, flexible, laid-back, liberal, relaxed
The teachers seem to have a very relaxed attitude towards discipline.
conservative, inflexible, rigid, uncompromising | ambivalent | general, prevailing, public
The general attitude of the public is sympathetic.
changing | mental, moral, sexual

VERB + ATTITUDE

adopt, have, take
The government has taken a positive attitude to this problem.
change
The experience changed his attitude to religion.

ATTITUDE + VERB

exist, persist, prevail
This sort of attitude exists among certain groups of people.
change

ATTITUDE + NOUN

problem
At school he was thought to have an attitude problem.

PREP.

~ about
changing attitudes about death
~ of
an attitude of confidence and trust Youth is simply an attitude of mind.
~ to/towards
There has been a marked change in attitude towards the European single currency.

PHRASES

a change in/of attitude, with attitude
(informal) (= having a confident, aggressive attitude that challenges what people think) a rock band with attitude

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