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Collocations for complete - verb

1. finish sth

ADVERB

on schedule, on time
successfully
The project has now been successfully completed.
just, recently
We have recently completed a 10-year study.
fully, partially
I've fully completed my training.

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2. write information

ADVERB

accurately, correctly
Has the form been correctly completed?

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Complete is used with these nouns as the object:
acquisition, arrangement, assessment, assignment, building, check, checklist, circuit, collection, conquest, construction, coupon, course, crossing, cycle, deal, degree, diploma, dissertation, doctorate, draft, duty, education, enquiry, errand, evaluation, exercise, form, formality, grade, high school, inspection, inventory, investigation, job, journey, lap, level, look, manoeuvre, manuscript, marathon, master, merger, mission, module, move, negotiation, novel, objective, orbit, order, outfit, painting, paperwork, pass, passage, phase, picture, preparation, procedure, process, programme, project, puzzle, questionnaire, quiz, renovation, repair, repetition, report, restoration, review, revision, revolution, ritual, round, rout, sale, schooling, semester, sentence, sequence, set, stint, study, survey, task, term, test, thesis, training, transaction, transformation, transition, treatment, trial, trip, voyage, work, workout

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Collocations for complete - adj.

1. having/including all the parts

VERBS

be, seem
survive
The book survives complete only in the second edition of 1533.
make sth
You've made my life complete.

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ADVERB

remarkably
a remarkably complete account of the negotiations
very
A very complete index provides easy reference to topics in the book.
far from, less than, not quite
almost, essentially, largely, nearly, virtually
fairly, reasonably, relatively

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2. finished

VERBS

be, seem

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ADVERB

almost, nearly, substantially, virtually
The job is almost complete.
far from
not yet

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Complete is used with these nouns:
absence, acceptance, accuracy, advantage, agreement, amateur, amazement, anarchy, annihilation, anonymity, answer, antithesis, astonishment, authority, autonomy, ban, beginner, bibliography, blockade, blockage, bore, break, breakdown, catastrophe, ceasefire, census, certainty, change, chaos, check, circle, circuit, clarity, closure, cock-up, coincidence, collapse, collection, comfort, command, commitment, confidence, confidentiality, conformity, confusion, consistency, contempt, contradiction, contrast, control, conviction, cooperation, cure, cycle, darkness, dedication, defeat, departure, dependence, description, despair, destruction, detachment, detail, devastation, devotion, disappearance, disappointment, disarmament, disarray, disaster, disbelief, discretion, disgust, disintegration, disorder, disregard, disrespect, document, dominance, domination, embargo, equality, examination, exclusion, exemption, exhaustion, explanation, failure, faith, farce, flop, fool, forgiveness, freedom, freeze, fulfilment, gamut, garbage, guide, halt, harmony, helplessness, honesty, idiot, ignorance, immunity, impartiality, inability, independence, index, indifference, information, innocence, integration, integrity, inventory, isolation, jerk, knowledge, lack, liberty, lie, list, loser, loyalty, lunatic, madness, mastery, mess, misery, misunderstanding, mystery, myth, nightmare, nonsense, novice, obedience, obscurity, omission, openness, opposite, outfit, outsider, overhaul, overview, package, panic, paralysis, physical, picture, privacy, protection, range, reappraisal, reconstruction, record, recording, recovery, refusal, relaxation, reliance, relief, removal, renovation, replacement, report, resolution, responsibility, rest, restoration, rethink, return, reversal, review, revision, revolution, rubbish, ruin, safety, satisfaction, seclusion, secrecy, segregation, sense, sentence, separation, sequence, seriousness, service, set, shake-up, shock, silence, sincerity, skeleton, solution, specification, specimen, spectrum, standstill, stranger, stupidity, submission, success, support, surprise, surrender, switch, text, theory, transcript, transformation, trust, truth, turn, U-turn, understanding, unity, unknown, version, victory, waste, withdrawal, work, wreck

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