Collocations for "radio"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "radio" in context.
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radio
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- [FM, AM, ham] radio
- [commercial, pirate, public, digital, satellite] radio
- get a new car radio
- [communicate, transmit, send] the message by radio
- heard on the radio that
- hosts a [chat, sports] show on the radio
- works at the radio
- heard the [news, song] on the radio
- is on the radio [at, between, from]
- tune your radio to [89.1, 95.8] FM
- turn [off, on] the radio
- turn the radio [off]
- dial the radio into [101.5]
- listen to music on the radio
- follow the [match, game] on the radio
- [adjust, move] the radio's antenna
- radio for [help, backup, reinforcements]
- radioed [the police, security, his colleagues] for help
- radio in to the [station, control tower, police]
- radio a [message, report, clue]
- the [message] was radioed
- a [national, regional, local] radio station
- hosts a [morning, nighttime] radio show
- is a radio [host, personality, producer]
- a [news, sports, political, music] radio show
- radio [communication, technology, broadcasting]
'radio' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
advertisement
- advisory
- alert
- audience
- background
- band
- banter
- battery
- beacon
- beam
- blast
- broadcast
- bust
- commercial
- controller
- copy
- debate
- dial
- dispatch
- edit
- electronic
- entertaining
- father
- fiddle
- forecast
- frequency
- funny
- ham
- handle
- host
- hostess
- interview
- invent
- knob
- listen
- local
- microwave
- monitor
- music
- national
- news
- personality
- phone
- pirate
- play
- plea
- portable
- power
- presenter
- prime