label

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noun

1 paper, etc. attached to sth

ADJECTIVE

▪ adhesive, sticky

▪ package

▪ product

▪ clothing, food, nutrition (esp. AmE)

▪ address, mailing (AmE)

▪ luggage (esp. BrE)

▪ price

▪ warning

▪ care

▪

The care label says ‘dry-clean only’.

▪ designer

▪

clothes with a designer label

VERB + LABEL

▪ bear, carry, have

▪

It doesn't have a price label on it.

▪ attach, put on, stick on

▪

She stuck labels on all the jars.

▪ remove, take off

▪ check, consult, read

▪

Always read the label before taking any medicine.

PREPOSITION

▪ on a/the label

▪

What does it say on the label?

▪ label on

▪

the label on the bottle

2 description

ADJECTIVE

▪ ideological, party

VERB + LABEL

▪ apply, assign, attach, slap on, use

▪

Why do we need to attach a label to these feelings?

▪

One sometimes feels that the label ‘classic’ is applied to any book that is dull.

▪ reject

3 company; brand

ADJECTIVE

▪ music, record

▪ major

▪ independent, indie

▪ brand-name (esp. AmE), private

▪ designer

▪

Designer labels grew by nearly 4% in 2007.

VERB + LABEL

▪ launch

▪ sign to, sign with

▪

The band is hoping to sign with a major label.

PREPOSITION

▪ under a/the label

▪

The record was produced under the Virgin label.

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verb

1 put a label on sth

ADVERB

▪ appropriately, correctly, properly

▪ incorrectly, wrongly

▪

Some of the plants were wrongly labelled/labeled.

▪ carefully, clearly, neatly

▪

a pile of small plastic bags, each carefully labelled/labeled.

PREPOSITION

▪ with

▪

The samples were all labelled/labeled with a date and place of origin.

2 describe sb/sth as a particular thing

ADVERB

▪ falsely

▪

She was falsely labelled/labeled a liar.

▪ automatically

PREPOSITION

▪ as

▪

It would be easy to label the boys as troublemakers.

Label is used with these nouns as the object: ↑coward, ↑product