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Collocations for imitation - noun

1. copy of a thing

ADJECTIVE

accurate, good, passable
exact, perfect
cheap, crude, pale, poor
Accept no cheap imitations of our product!
Their version of jazz funk is a pale imitation of the real thing.
mere
They are mere imitations of existing products.

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2. act of copying sth

ADJECTIVE

slavish
direct
Children are seen as learning to write by direct imitation of adult models.

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PREPOSITION

in imitation of
The poems, some in imitation of Whitman, are unremarkable.

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3. copy of the way sb speaks, behaves, etc.

ADJECTIVE

accurate, fair, good, passable
perfect
He does a perfect imitation of a turkey.
close, convincing
a voice that's a close imitation of a snake hiss
bad, lame, poor

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VERB + imitation

do, give, perform
He does a very good imitation of Liza Minelli.

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