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Collocations for foreign - adj.

1. not coming from your own country

VERBS

be, look, sound
The name sounded foreign.

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ADVERB

slightly
a slightly foreign accent
distinctly
He was a small man, distinctly foreign in appearance.

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2. (foreign to sb) not typical of sb/not known to sb

VERBS

be, feel, seem

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ADVERB

very
completely, entirely, quite, totally, utterly
This kind of attitude is completely foreign to her.

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Foreign is used with these nouns:
accent, adventure, affair, agent, aggression, aid, arena, army, asset, assistance, bank, base, body, branch, capital, commentator, commerce, competition, competitor, consumer, corporation, correspondent, counterpart, country, credit, creditor, culture, currency, customer, debt, demand, diplomat, domination, editor, elite, embassy, enemy, expedition, film, firm, fund, funding, government, holiday, immigrant, import, income, influence, interest, intervention, investment, investor, journalist, labour, land, language, learner, manufacturer, market, media, mercenary, merchant, military, minister, ministry, missionary, multinational, nation, nationality, news, object, observer, occupation, origin, ownership, participation, partner, passport, policy, port, posting, power, press, producer, relation, reporter, right, rival, sale, secretary, security, service, shore, soil, source, spy, state, station, stock, student, subsidiary, substance, supplier, territory, terrorist, tongue, tour, tourist, trade, trader, travel, traveller, trip, troops, vessel, visit, visitor, water, word

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