Collocations for "council"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "council" in context.
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council
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- the [housing, education, school, local, regional] council
- is a member of the [housing] council
- the council on [housing]
- sits on the [housing] council
- the [governor's, president's] council (on)
- the council of [ministers, churches, state]
- applied to the council for [permission, a license]
- need [permission] from the council
- [Permission] is required from the council.
- [run, manage] the council's [finances, activities]
- is [organized, sponsored, run] by the council
- the council is [assessing, evaluating, looking into]
- consulted the council [on, for, to, before]
- the council [voted, discussed, decided]
- the [head, president, chair] of the council
- is a council [worker, member]
- the council [chambers, offices, headquarters]
- UK: lives in a council [apartment, house, block]
'council' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
European
- UN
- advise
- advisory
- borough
- chair
- chamber
- city
- complaint
- countryside
- county
- deem
- district
- dump
- estate
- failings
- initiate
- league
- misuse
- parish
- permit
- planner
- potato
- president
- promiscuous
- prosecute
- ramp
- rebuke
- referee
- registered
- resolution
- second
- sit
- student
- subset
- tenant
- volunteer
- warden