Collocations for "incident"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "incident" in context.
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incident
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- a [political, military, domestic, school] incident
- a [minor, major] [political, border] incident
- had a little incident in the [bathroom, bedroom]
- there was an incident in [Afghanistan]
- the incident in question
- are [fifty] recorded incidents of
- an incident of [sexual, physical] abuse
- there was a slight incident during the [party, presentation]
- in a response to the incident
- the incident occurred at [8:00]
- the incident occurred on [Monday]
- the incident involved several [cars, shoppers, personnel]
- the incident was [brought about, caused] by
- [report, record] the incident
- a slight incident involving
- was not just a single incident
- have been more than one incident
- for every incident
- there has been another incident of
- was just an isolated incident (of)
- everything [happened, went off] without incident
- the [trip, journey, vacation] went on without incident
- the [trip] was not without incident
- an incident report
- incident management
- fill out an incident report
- an incident report [system, database, archive]
- incident [analysis, rates, prevention]
- are incident to the [job, task, role, profession]
- [hazards, risks, dangers] incident to the [job]
- the incident [beam, light, radiation]
'incident' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Israel
- alleged
- bizarre
- brush
- capture
- cloud
- curious
- detail
- digest
- documentation
- duty
- faithful
- function
- fuss
- glance
- history
- humor
- inquiry
- interview
- lead
- link
- memory
- mention
- minor
- mysterious
- notorious
- personnel
- reason
- recording
- regret
- relation
- relative
- remark
- remove
- repeat
- report
- reported
- resumé
- riding
- runway
- shadow
- summary
- unfortunate
- upset
- violent
- vivid
- when