Collocations for "month"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "month" in context.
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month
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- a [calendar, lunar, full, leap, 30-day] month
- [this, last, next, the following] month
- in [two] months
- in [two] month's time
- going [away, on vacation] in a month
- going [away] for a month
- the [construction, voyage, project] took a month
- took a month to [arrive, complete, finish]
- the [show, play, movie] [starts, comes out] next month
- [extended, reduced] by [three] months
- [charge, pay, rent] per month
- [charge] by the month
- hasn't paid the [bills, rent] this month
- get paid at the [beginning, start, end, middle] of the month
- a baby of [three] months
- is [three] months old
- [in, during] the month of [September]
- the first [three] months of the [year, job, course]
- never in a month of Sundays!
- it's my time of the month
- a month's [trial, subscription, salary]
- a month's worth of [food, drink, supplies, fuel]
'month' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
April
- August
- December
- February
- Friday
- ID
- May
- Monday
- November
- October
- September
- Sunday
- Thursday
- Tuesday
- advance
- any
- away
- ban
- birth
- birthday
- blaze
- bond
- calendar
- campaign
- cemetery
- charge
- cinema
- clear
- coming
- commence
- comprehensive
- contract
- contractor
- cope
- covenant
- craze
- crunch
- deployment
- diploma
- dispute
- dollar
- double
- downtime
- drought
- each
- echo
- elevator
- eligible
- entitlement
- escalate