Collocations for "structure"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "structure" in context.
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structure
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- [a solid, a loose, a tight, an unsafe] structure
- a [circular, rectangular, triangular] structure
- a [glass, crystal, metal, wooden] structure
- the [building, house, property] structure
- a [huge, great, magnificent, horrendous] structure
- the structure of a [building, language, debate, wall]
- a structure made of [glass]
- the [company, organizational, hierarchical] structure
- the [book, movie, story] structure
- the [lexical, grammatical, linguistic] structure
- [language, question, sentence, phrase] structure
- [data, content, domain, directory] structure
- the structure of [plants, corals, proteins, DNA]
- needs structure [during the day, in class]
- need structure to [function, succeed]
- need [more, less] structure
- structure an [argument, article, essay]
- structure your [investments, finances]
- structure the [company, business, environment, classroom] (so that)
- structure the [meeting, debate, conversation] (so that)
- structured to [provide, meet, ensure, allow, attract, support]
- structure and organize
'structure' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
badly
- brittle
- column
- composition
- crystal
- erection
- fee
- flank
- formal
- give
- governance
- gut
- guy
- hastily
- hierarchy
- internal
- mistake
- narrative
- parallel
- parking
- phrasal
- pillar
- ram
- recall
- restoration
- retain
- rot
- sag
- sentence
- shaped
- skew
- solid
- sound
- squat
- sturdy
- sustain
- underlying
- undermine
- void
- wave