Collocations for "enter"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "enter" in context.
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enter
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.v
- enter and exit
- enter [here, through the front, in the back, at the side]
- enter a [city, country]
- enter the [building, store, school]
- enter your [username, password, pin, account, email]
- enter the following [information, facts]
- enter a search [term, criteria, keyword]
- enter the desired [amount, number]
- enter your [name, height, weight]
- enter [the race, a competition]
- enter [yourself, a team, a horse] in the [race]
- enter [to, and] win
- the [thought, idea, possibility] never entered my mind
- [it, the thought] did enter my mind that
- enter a [bid, claim, counter-claim]
- entering a new [era, phase, dawn]
- enter into the [agreement, contract]
- entered willingly into the [agreement, contract, marriage]
- entered into the [agreement] willingly
- enter into the [festive, Christmas, party] spirit
- enter into the spirit (of things)
- enter, stage [right, left]
- the bullet entered his [chest, brain, arm]
- sexually explicit: he entered her (from behind)
'enter' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
enable
- address
- age
- box
- competition
- contract
- key
- symbol
- stone
- member
- location
- search
- through
- dancing
- ID
- payment
- pin
- poetry
- procurement
- promotion
- root
- voucher
- cockpit
- code
- contest
- covenant
- cue
- dealer
- den
- domain
- login
- ram
- slash
- snatch
- warrant
- authorization
- badge
- foyer
- fray
- nerve
- nursing
- passport
- percentage
- phrase
- port
- prompt
- quantity
- queue
- simply
- sliding