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Collocations for eliminate - verb

ADVERB

altogether, completely, entirely, totally
The risk cannot be eliminated altogether.
This procedure does not completely eliminate the possibility of an accident.
almost, nearly, practically, virtually
largely
effectively, essentially
Getting this job has effectively eliminated his financial worries.
successfully
possibly, potentially
eventually, ultimately
a policy that they claim will eventually eliminate corruption in the industry
gradually
quickly, rapidly
immediately

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VERB + eliminate

seek to, take steps to, try to
help (to)
be designed to
The single market is designed to eliminate barriers to free movement.
be impossible to

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PREPOSITION

from
Try to eliminate fatty foods from your diet.

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Eliminate is used with these nouns as the object:
ambiguity, backlog, barrier, bias, bureaucracy, chance, clutter, competition, confusion, corruption, debt, deficit, delay, discrimination, disparity, distraction, duplication, effect, emission, enemy, error, exemption, fat, gap, guesswork, hassle, hazard, incentive, inefficiency, influence, interference, job, middleman, mistake, need, odour, penalty, pollution, possibility, poverty, practice, prejudice, problem, reliance, requirement, restriction, risk, rival, subsidy, suffering, tariff, tax, taxation, threat, uncertainty, vestige, waste

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