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Collocations for fair - noun

ADJECTIVE

annual
antiques, art, book, craft, horse (BrE), school (esp. AmE), steam (BrE)
career, job, science, trade
fun (usually funfair)
local, street
county, state (both AmE)

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VERB + fair

attend, go to, visit
have, hold, host
The city is holding its annual trade fair in May this year.
organize
She is organizing next year's book fair.

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fair + VERB

take place

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PREPOSITION

at a/the fair
I bought it at a local craft fair.

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Collocations for fair - adj.

VERBS

be, seem
make sth
I'll give you ten pounds each to make it fair.
consider sth, think sth
I didn't think it fair that the others should be allowed to go but not me.

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ADVERB

scrupulously, very
It's important to be scrupulously fair when grading the final exam paper.
absolutely, completely, entirely, perfectly, quite, totally
I don't care what he thinks. It seems perfectly fair to me.
That doesn't seem quite fair.
hardly, not really
It's hardly fair that I should be working while everyone else is enjoying themselves!
pretty, reasonably

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PHRASES

to be fair
To be fair, we hadn't really spent enough time on the job.

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PREPOSITION

to
That seems fair to all sides.

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Fair is used with these nouns:
allocation, amount, assessment, balance, bet, bit, catch, chance, comment, comparison, compensation, competition, complexion, compromise, contest, copy, criticism, cross section, deal, degree, description, distance, distribution, division, election, estimate, exchange, fight, guess, hair, head, hearing, imitation, indication, inference, measure, number, offer, percentage, play, price, proportion, reflection, rent, representation, return, sex, size, skin, slice, summary, system, test, trade, treatment, trial, use, vote, wage, warning, weather, while, wind

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