ADULT SON collocation | meaning and examples of use (original) (raw)
collocation in English
meanings of adult and son
adult
adjective
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/ˈæd.ʌlt/us
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/əˈdʌlt/
being, involving, or relating to an adult (= a person or animal that has grown to full size ...
son
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/sʌn/us
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/sʌn/
Examples of adult son
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In 1979, three had an adult son living in the same household.
She lives with an adult son.
She may have no control over an adult son.
Look at the treatment of the adult son or daughter.
Under this system, when a farmer who has an adult son dies, that son succeeds him.
She has been left with an adult son and lives in a colliery house.
There is obviously no privacy for the adult son and daughter.
One of my constituents who has an adult son with learning difficulties recently approached me.
The letter concerns a family with a young adult son who has serious mental health problems.
I also have a constituent who tragically lost his adult son in the crash.
If that family were on income support, without the adult son their entire rent would be paid by housing benefit.
He is married and has one adult son.
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He has an adult son and a teenage daughter.
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When he died, he was succeeded by his adult son.
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By making the decision, his adult son fades away.
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He has three married children and one single adult son.
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At my previous surgery a man was desperately concerned about his inability to meet the fees for his adult son in a private home.
The first is the assumption that an adult, unmarried daughter is likely to be dependent on her parents, whereas an adult son is not.
An adult son living at home may be assumed to be contributing £39 a week and therefore the housing benefit would be down to £3 a week.
In a large number of cases the increase granted in respect of the child has been taken from an adult son or an adult daughter.
It is always difficult for parents to come to terms with the death of a young adult son as the result of a road accident.
They have an adult son and daughter, and six grandkids; a second son died of leukemia.
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In regard to the adult son, he may well be dependent on his parents for reasons other than incapacity; for instance, while he is training for a profession.
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