Collocations for "choose"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "choose" in context.
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choose
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.v
- choose a [meal, drink, partner, product]
- choose a [category, topic]
- choose your [options, settings]
- choose a [school, doctor, lawyer]
- choose [one] over [another]
- choose between [one] and [another]
- choose [an alternative, a different, another]
- choose from [hundreds, thousands]
- choose what [photos, information] you can see
- I choose you (for my team)
- please choose (one)
- choose for yourself
- choose [quickly, carefully, thoughtfully]
- chose the [best, nearest, cheapest] school
- [difficult, not easy, tough, easy] to choose
- [difficult] to choose just one
- she chose to [accept, stay, go, decline]
- should you choose to [accept]
- chosen from among [hundreds, thousands] (of)
- chosen to represent [her country, Great Britain]
- (has) chosen to remain anonymous
'choose' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Pope
- alternate
- alternative
- alternatively
- another
- any
- anything
- anywhere
- as
- assortment
- audience
- between
- bias
- cake
- catchy
- category
- cellar
- coach
- coin
- conference
- confused
- contestant
- control
- cork
- covering
- deck
- deposit
- domain
- download
- either
- eternity
- fabric
- fairly
- filling
- former
- free
- freedom
- gender
- guidance
- healthy
- kind
- language
- layout
- leisure
- lesser
- letterhead
- location
- maiden
- map
- margin