Collocations for "encourage"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "encourage" in context.
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encourage
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.v
- encourage [new ideas, creativity, free thinking]
- encourage her to [try, make, think, do]
- is encouraging him to [know, see, hear, read, have]
- encourage your [students, employees, children]
- encourage our [customers, users, clients, members]
- encourage (them) with a [prize, treat, reward]
- are encouraged to [apply, attend, contact]
- applications are encouraged from
- is positively encouraged
- encourage diversity in the [classroom, workplace, wilderness]
- (to) encourage good behavior
- we encourage participation from
- encourage [higher, greater, positive, more]
- encourage and [support, assist, promote, reward]
'encourage' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
aim
- cheer
- citizen
- coax
- conducive
- cultural
- customer
- diversity
- employee
- empower
- empowerment
- enthusiasm
- fighting
- foster
- friendship
- green
- implementation
- integration
- interaction
- introduce
- loss
- nursing
- organization
- peer
- promote
- prune
- public
- reward
- sharing
- support
- swimming
- trade
- transit
- transport
- uptake
- welcome
- youngster
- youth