collocations.org

Collocations for enter - verb

1. come/go into a place

ADVERB

illegally
people who enter the country illegally
cautiously
quickly, slowly
quietly, silently
suddenly

Back to top ▲


VERB + enter

allow sb/sth to, permit sb/sth to
He stood back to allow us to enter.
forbid sb to

Back to top ▲


PREPOSITION

by, through
We entered through a large iron gate.
from
The dancers entered from the side of the stage.

Back to top ▲


PHRASES

enter and exit, enter and leave
They pass each other as they enter and exit the building.

Back to top ▲


2. add information to sth

ADVERB

manually
You may need to enter this information manually.
automatically

Back to top ▲


PREPOSITION

in
Your details have been entered in our database.
into, on, onto
Please enter all your personal details on the form provided.
Enter the data onto the computer.

Back to top ▲


enter into sth - PHRASAL VERB

ADVERB

freely, voluntarily
Staying married is a choice that is freely entered into.

Back to top ▲


Enter is used with these nouns as the subject:
army, bullet, competitor, cubicle, immigrant, team, train, troops, vessel

Back to top ▲


Enter is used with these nouns as the object:
academy, airspace, arena, army, atmosphere, bankruptcy, bar, battle, bloodstream, business, cabinet, camp, century, chamber, chart, church, college, command, competition, confines, consciousness, contest, convent, conversation, country, data, debate, decade, dispute, dock, education, elevator, equation, era, event, field, final, folklore, forest, foyer, game, grade, ground, hallway, harbour, head, high school, industry, inheritance, kindergarten, league, lung, mainstream, mall, mansion, market, marketplace, menopause, middle age, military, mind, minefield, ministry, mode, monastery, mythology, name, navy, number, office, orbit, paradise, parliament, partnership, password, period, phase, plea, politics, port, precinct, premises, production, profession, programme, prostitution, puberty, quiz, race, raffle, rally, rank, realm, recession, repertoire, restroom, retirement, ring, room, roundabout, school, season, service, stage, strait, talk, territory, theatre, tournament, trance, treatment, tunnel, turn, university, usage, vagina, valley, vehicle, vocabulary, war, week, workforce, world, yard, zone

Back to top ▲

Report an error or submit a comment/suggestion on enter