arena

arena
noun
1 for sports/entertainment
ADJECTIVE
▪ Olympic
▪ sports
▪ training
▪ basketball, hockey, rodeo, showjumping, etc.
▪ ice
▪ indoor, outdoor
▪ home (esp. AmE)
▪

The Hurricanes have a new home arena.

▪ 10 000-seat, etc.
VERB + ARENA
▪ build
▪ leave
▪

He left the arena to loud applause.

ARENA + NOUN
▪ floor
PREPOSITION
▪ in an/the arena, into an/the arena
▪

The rider has to halt the horse in the arena.

2 area of activity
ADJECTIVE
▪ global, international, national, world
▪ domestic, foreign
▪

the challenges faced by farmers in the international and domestic arenas

▪ wider
▪

Unions are also active in the wider arena of the state.

▪ public
▪ academic, commercial, cultural, economic, financial, legal, legislative, political, social
▪ policy
▪

This observation also applies in the environmental policy arena.

▪ digital, online
▪

the challenges of bringing a business into the online arena

▪ competitive
VERB + ARENA
▪ create, provide
▪

The conference should provide an arena for marketing our products.

▪ emerge into, enter, move into
▪

Some documents have now emerged into the public arena.

▪

He had no desire to enter the political arena.

▪ dominate
PREPOSITION
▪ in an/the arena, within an/the arena
▪

The company has been very successful in the commercial arena.

▪ outside an/the arena
▪

I want to work outside the arena of competition.


Collocations dictionary. 2013.

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