Collocations for "involved"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "involved" in context.
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involve
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.v
- involve the [public, community, employees]
- involve him in the [game, discussion, party]
- involve them in the [decision, process, development]
- involve yourself in her [business, affairs]
- didn't want to involve himself [with, in]
- involves many [people, lives, families]
- involves the following [people, organizations, departments]
- involves [an employee, a student, an individual]
- the [drug, procedure, operation] involves risk
- involves some [form, kind, level, type, degree, sort] of
- involves [public, local, government] participation
- would involve [a change, an alteration, an increase] in
- would involve [greater staff, higher pay, layoffs, higher taxes]
- could involve any number of
- [frequently, commonly, typically, usually] involved
- doesn't want to be involved
- involved with [drugs, prostitution]
- involved in the [crime, robbery, murder, prank]
- thought to be involved in the [crime, disappearance, shooting]
- became (romantically) involved with him
'involved' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
activity
- affair
- allegedly
- aspect
- awful
- bloody
- boy
- bribery
- citizen
- clash
- closely
- cognitive
- conflict
- coup
- deceit
- deception
- deeply
- directly
- discomfort
- dispute
- drug
- dumping
- effort
- endeavor
- facet
- fruitful
- fully
- heavily
- implication
- incident
- involve
- messy
- organized
- paperwork
- passionate
- personally
- physically
- possible
- potential
- presently
- quarrel
- regularly
- restrain
- risk
- road
- rumble
- shady
- slimy
- somehow
- stunt