Collocations for "confidence"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "confidence" in context.
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confidence
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- [consumer, public, employee, self-] confidence
- [improve, work on, build up] your (self-) confidence
- has [poor, great] self-confidence
- you have my complete confidence
- have [full, total, complete] confidence in you
- placed [total] confidence in him
- have [no, decreasing, increasing] confidence in
- have (no) confidence in your ability [to, as]
- has no confidence when [playing, speaking]
- lacks (self-)confidence
- increase your confidence
- give his confidence a boost
- gain confidence from (the experience)
- my confidence has [not, never] wavered
- I'm telling you in strict confidence
- have the strictest confidence in
- I say this in confidence
- a (complete) lack of confidence
- confidence in the [economy, company]
- confidence and security
- inspire confidence [in, by]
- expressed his confidence [in]
- [speak, play, perform] with confidence
- with the confidence of [youth, inexperience]
- was given the vote of confidence (by the management)
- the [senators, directors, politicians] exchanged confidences
- your confidence level
- confidence-building [exercises, activities]
- a confidence trick
'confidence' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
absolute
- bid
- blow
- brash
- brim
- build
- builder
- buy
- climate
- complete
- compliment
- confront
- consumer
- deed
- ebb
- falter
- fluency
- gain
- image
- impede
- investor
- lack
- level
- lose
- low on
- market
- outward
- paramount
- predict
- pronounce
- public
- quail
- regain
- restore
- self
- seriously
- strict
- stride
- success
- supposedly
- undermine
- understandable
- utmost
- utter
- vote
- weaken
- work
- wound