Collocations for relationship - noun

friendly, good, happy, harmonious, healthy, strong
They have a very healthy father-son relationship.

broken, difficult, failed, fragile, poor, rocky, stormy, strained, troubled, uneasy, volatile
Their relationship has always been a stormy one.

close, intense, intimate, special
Britain's special relationship with the US

committed, enduring, lasting, long-standing, long-term, monogamous, permanent, serious, stable, steady
He was not married, but he was in a stable relationship.

brief, casual
caring, love-hate, loving
abusive
family, human, interpersonal, one-to-one, personal
doctor-patient, parent-child, etc.
business, contractual, financial, formal, professional, social, working
marital, physical, romantic, sexual
platonic
gay, heterosexual, homosexual, lesbian, same-sex
power
The play is about power relationships at work.

enjoy, have
They enjoyed a close working relationship.
The school has a very good relationship with the community.
He had brief relationships with several women.

begin, build, build up, cultivate, develop, establish, forge, form, foster
Building strong relationships is essential.
They established a relationship of trust.

cement, improve, strengthen
continue, maintain
deal with, handle, manage
He's not very good at handling personal relationships.

break off, end
She broke off the relationship when she found out about his gambling.

destroy, ruin
Lack of trust destroys many relationships.

exist
We want to improve the relationship that exists between the university and industry.

deepen, develop, evolve, progress
blossom, flourish
work
I tried everything to make our relationship work.

continue, last
deteriorate, go wrong, worsen
break down, break up, end, fail

difficulties, problems
breakdown (esp. BrE)
goals
counsellor/counselor (esp. BrE)

in a/the relationship
In normal human relationships there has to be some give and take.
At the moment he isn't in a relationship.

relationship among
The focus is on relationships among European countries.

relationship between, relationship to
their relationship to each other

relationship with

the breakdown of a relationship
a network of relationships, a web of relationships

blood, family, kin, kinship
distant
He claimed to have a distant relationship with royalty.

relationship between
‘What's the relationship between you and Tony?’ ‘He's my cousin.’

relationship to
What relationship are you to Pat?

close
There's a close relationship between increased money supply and inflation.

direct
clear
complex, complicated
significant
true
particular
inverse, negative
the inverse relationship between gas consumption and air temperature

positive
causal, dynamic, reciprocal, symbiotic
the symbiotic relationship between corals and algae

linear, spatial
economic, functional, legal
natural, organic
symbolic

bear, have
The fee bears little relationship to the service provided.

analyze, assess, evaluate, examine, explore, investigate, look at, study
His latest book examines the relationship between spatial awareness and mathematical ability.

determine, discover, establish, find
They discovered a relationship between depression and lack of sunlight.

demonstrate, show
see, understand
describe

exist
No statistically significant relationship existed between the occurrences.

emerge
A clear relationship emerged in the study between happiness and level of education.

in a/the relationship
The different varieties of the language are in a dynamic relationship with each other.

relationship among
Our research will explore the relationships among these variables.

relationship between
I can't see the relationship between the figures and the diagram.

relationship to
the relationship of a parasite to its host

relationship with

the nature of the relationship
stand in a … relationship to sth
Women and men stand in a different relationship to language.