Collocations for "central"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "central" in context.
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central
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.adj
- [live, work] in the central part of [the city, town]
- is a central [area, neighborhood]
- use central air (conditioning)
- the central [government, bank]
- the central nervous system
- let's [meet, have lunch] in a central location
- is central to everything I [stand for, believe in]
- is central to our [mission, morals, business plan]
- is a central [idea, theme, concept] in
- the [idea] is central to
- [the discovery, his work] was central to modern [physics]
- take a central [role, position] (in)
- UK: [smashed, crashed] into the central reservation
- in Central [America, London, Park]
- Central Standard Time
- (Eastern) Central time (zone)
'central' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
America
- American
- Asian
- European
- air
- argument
- bank
- boiler
- café
- coastal
- comprise
- core
- defense
- escalation
- figure
- furnace
- government
- heating
- intelligence
- lane
- nervous
- picnic
- plateau
- premise
- principle
- puzzle
- railway
- region
- reservation
- somewhere
- staircase
- station
- tenet
- time
- urban
- west