fair

fair
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noun
ADJECTIVE
▪ annual
▪ antiques, art, book, craft, horse (BrE), school (esp. AmE), steam (BrE)
▪ career, job, science, trade
▪ fun (usually funfair) (BrE)
▪ local, street
▪ county, state (both AmE)
VERB + FAIR
▪ attend, go to, visit
▪ have, hold, host
▪

The city is holding its annual trade fair in May this year.

▪ organize
▪

She is organizing next year's book fair.

FAIR + VERB
▪ take place
PREPOSITION
▪ at a/the fair
▪

I bought it at a local craft fair.

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adj.
VERBS
▪ be, seem
▪ make sth
▪

I'll give you ten pounds each to make it fair.

▪ consider sth, think sth
▪

I didn't think it fair that the others should be allowed to go but not me.

ADVERB
▪ scrupulously, very
▪

It's important to be scrupulously fair when grading the final exam paper.

▪ absolutely, completely, entirely, perfectly, quite, totally
▪

I don't care what he thinks. It seems perfectly fair to me.

▪

That doesn't seem quite fair.

▪ hardly, not really
▪

It's hardly fair that I should be working while everyone else is enjoying themselves!

▪ pretty, reasonably
PHRASES
▪ to be fair
▪

To be fair, we hadn't really spent enough time on the job.

PREPOSITION
▪ to
▪

That seems fair to all sides.

Fair is used with these nouns: ↑allocation, ↑amount, ↑assessment, ↑balance, ↑bet, ↑bit, ↑catch, ↑chance, ↑comment, ↑comparison, ↑compensation, ↑competition, ↑complexion, ↑compromise, ↑contest, ↑copy, ↑criticism, ↑cross section, ↑deal, ↑degree, ↑description, ↑distance, ↑distribution, ↑division, ↑election, ↑estimate, ↑exchange, ↑fight, ↑guess, ↑hair, ↑head, ↑hearing, ↑imitation, ↑indication, ↑inference, ↑measure, ↑number, ↑offer, ↑percentage, ↑play, ↑price, ↑proportion, ↑reflection, ↑rent, ↑representation, ↑return, ↑sex, ↑size, ↑skin, ↑slice, ↑summary, ↑system, ↑test, ↑trade, ↑treatment, ↑trial, ↑use, ↑vote, ↑wage, ↑warning, ↑weather, ↑while, ↑wind

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