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prize
verbs
win a prize
( also take a prize )
• She won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1938. • Ms Brolls also took the prize for best individual speaker.
get a prize
( also receive a prize formal )
• The winner gets a prize. • If your letter is published, you will receive a £5 prize.
share a prize
• They will share the first prize of £500.
give (somebody) a prize
( also award (somebody) a prize formal )
• A prize will be given for the best-decorated egg. • Four years later he was awarded the Erasmus Prize.
a prize goes to somebody
(= they get it )
• The fiction prize goes to Carol Shields.
ADJECTIVES/NOUN + prize
first/second etc prize
• She won first prize in a poetry competition.
the top prize
• The film won the top prize at the Berlin Film Festival.
a consolation prize
(= one given to someone who has not won )
• The runner-up will get a consolation prize of a camera.
the booby prize
(= one given as a joke to the person who comes last )
• The cake I made for the competition was so bad I got the booby prize.
a cash prize
• There's a $5,000 cash prize for the winner.
prize + NOUN
a prize winner
• Congratulations to all the prize winners!
prize money
• The players are demanding an increase in prize money.
a prize draw
British English (= a competition in which people whose names or tickets are chosen by chance win prizes )
• He won the car in a prize draw.
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verb PREP. above a precious thing to be prized above all else | as The library is prized as the finest of its kind in England. | for The berries are prized for their healing properties. PHRASES highly/much prized two fruits that are much prized in Madeira, noun ADJ. big, great, prestigious | special | coveted She was the first woman to win this coveted prize. | glittering He strove for the glittering prizes of politics. | first, top | runner-up, second | consolation | booby The booby prize was awarded to the worst singer in the competition. | cash, money VERB + PRIZE award (sb), give (sb) | present The prize was presented by the mayor. | get, receive, take, win | accept PRIZE + VERB go to sb/sth The prize went to the grey long-haired cat. | be worth sth a prize worth over £3,000 PRIZE + NOUN winner (also prizewinner) | money | draw PREP. ~ for He won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Oxford Collocations Dictionary