trump1 nountrump2 verb
trumptrump1 /trʌmp/ noun 
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Spades are trump.
- Adversity is the regime's natural habitat, and in dealing with its own populace its one moral trump.
- In return, it promised not to play its one trump card - water.
- Parents must recognize that if a child does not want to do homework, the child holds the trump card.
- The citizens of Hebron, by contrast, hold all the trump cards.
- We had beaten him, but he played a final trump card.
- Why, produce her trump card.
WORD SETS
ace, nounbaccarat, nounbid, nounblackjack, nounbridge, nouncanasta, nouncard, nouncard table, nouncontract bridge, nouncourt card, nouncrib, nouncribbage, nouncut, verbdeal, noundeal, verbdealer, noundeck, noundiscard, verbdiscard, noundummy, nounface card, nounflush, nounfull house, noungin rummy, noungrand slam, nounhand, nounjack, nounjoker, nounking, nounkitty, nounknave, nounlead, verboverbid, verbpack, nounpatience, nounpicture card, nounplaying card, nounpoker, nounpontoon, nounqueen, nounraise, verbrubber, nounrummy, nounrun, nounshuffle, verbshuffle, nounsnap, nounsnap, interjectionsolitaire, nounspade, nounstrip poker, nounsuit, nountrick, nountrump, nountrump, verbtwenty-one, nounwhist, nounwild, adjectivewild card, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY
But then he decided to play his trump card (=use his advantage).COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN
But then he decided to play his trump card (=use his advantage).· We had beaten him, but he played a final trump card.· That was why Gorbachev wanted to negotiate-and that is why, in my opinion, President Reagan was holding the trump card.· This was one of the trump cards of News International in its dispute with the print workers in 1986-87.· In the struggle for development, every economy has certain advantages or trump cards.· And perhaps it was time to play the trump card up his sleeve.· Parents must recognize that if a child does not want to do homework, the child holds the trump card.· That night, though, our sincerity was our trump card.· The citizens of Hebron, by contrast, hold all the trump cards.
VERB· And a dream come true ... The advert for grandparents that came up trumps.· You've come up trumps, Derek.
· We had beaten him, but he played a final trump card.· A desperate Nixon then played his trump.· And perhaps it was time to play the trump card up his sleeve.· In return, it promised not to play its one trump card - water.· The full hand was as shown below: - Note what happens if declarer plays 2 rounds of trumps before proceeding.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► trumpsPHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
1trumps [plural] (also trump American English) the suit (=one of the four types of cards in a set) chosen to have a higher value than the other suits in a particular card game: - And perhaps it was time to play the trump card up his sleeve.
- In the struggle for development, every economy has certain advantages or trump cards.
- Parents must recognize that if a child does not want to do homework, the child holds the trump card.
- That night, though, our sincerity was our trump card.
- That was why Gorbachev wanted to negotiate-and that is why, in my opinion, President Reagan was holding the trump card.
- The citizens of Hebron, by contrast, hold all the trump cards.
- This was one of the trump cards of News International in its dispute with the print workers in 1986-87.
- We had beaten him, but he played a final trump card.
- And a dream come true ... The advert for grandparents that came up trumps.
- Conrad Allen came up trumps again, finishing fourth in the boys 800 metres in a personal best 2 mins. 22.
- Ibanez seem to have taken another daring step in their continuing success story and come up trumps once again.
- In part two: Four of a kind ... Durnin plays the winning hand as United come up trumps against Luton.
- You've come up trumps, Derek.
- And perhaps it was time to play the trump card up his sleeve.
- In the struggle for development, every economy has certain advantages or trump cards.
- Parents must recognize that if a child does not want to do homework, the child holds the trump card.
- That night, though, our sincerity was our trump card.
- That was why Gorbachev wanted to negotiate-and that is why, in my opinion, President Reagan was holding the trump card.
- The citizens of Hebron, by contrast, hold all the trump cards.
- This was one of the trump cards of News International in its dispute with the print workers in 1986-87.
- We had beaten him, but he played a final trump card.
Hearts are trumps.2[countable] (also trump card) a card from the suit that has been chosen to have a higher value than the other suits in a particular game3trump card something that you can do or use in a situation, which gives you an advantage: But then he decided to play his trump card (=use his advantage). They hold all the trump cards (=have things which could give them an advantage).4come/turn up trumps to provide what is needed, especially unexpectedly and at the last moment: Paul came up trumps and managed to borrow a car for us.trump1 nountrump2 verb
trumptrump2 verb [transitive] VERB TABLE
trump
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | trump |
| he, she, it | trumps | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | trumped |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have trumped |
| he, she, it | has trumped | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had trumped |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will trump |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have trumped |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am trumping |
| he, she, it | is trumping | |
| you, we, they | are trumping | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was trumping |
| you, we, they | were trumping | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been trumping |
| he, she, it | has been trumping | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been trumping |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be trumping |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been trumping |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Benckiser trumped Green's bid to buy the company.
- A family's decision for a woman to marry trumps her own decision to participate politically.
- Anxious to avoid indictment, peasants trumped up charges against their neighbors, while others accused their rivals of imaginary crimes.
- In the contest for national ascendancy, motherhood appeared to be trumping arms-bearing.
- That easily trumped the 23 percent winnings turned in by the overall market.
- That you have trumped this up.
- When state department analysts are asked for their opinions, however, pragmatism will probably trump ideology.
Longman Language Activatorwhen what someone says is not true
: it's/that's not true · "No one ever helps me." "That's not true."· You're believing what Mike's saying and it's just not true, he doesn't have a clue what's happening.it is not true that · It is not true that all women want to go out to work.
not true. Untrue is more formal than not true: · The report has proven this information to be untrue.it is untrue that: · It is untrue that the college broke the terms of the contract.completely/totally/absolutely/simply untrue: · The interviewer made it sound like I thought it was okay to hit a woman, which is totally untrue.
not true or not correct: · He gave a false name and address to the police.· The article gives a totally false impression of life in Russia today.· Decide whether these statements are true or false.· Her claims of being able to recall past lives were later proved false.
if what someone says or believes is happening is not the case , it is not happening and what they say or believe is not true: · Recent reports suggest that violent crime is increasing, but this is simply not the case.· People think if kids are aware of a particular brand or ad campaign, they'll buy the product, but that's not the case.
if there is no truth in or to something that has been said or written, it is completely untrue: · There is no truth in the rumour that Collins and his wife are about to divorce.· Robinson says there is no truth to the reports that he is ready to resign.
misleading information or statements make people believe something that is not true, especially by not giving them all the facts: · The holiday brochure is deliberately misleading, because the hotels it shows are not the ones you actually stay in.· These statistics give a misleading impression of what is happening to the economy.
if an explanation, story etc does not ring true , it does not seem to be true even though you are not quite sure why you think it is untrue: · There was something odd about her story, something that didn't ring true.· One of the jurors said that Hill's explanation just didn't ring true.
: trumped-up charge/accusation/case etc something someone says, a legal case etc that is false and has been invented, especially in order to harm someone else for political purposes: · He had been arrested by the secret police on trumped-up charges of spying.· Zola believed that the case against Dreyfus was trumped-up and utterly false.
WORD SETSace, nounbaccarat, nounbid, nounblackjack, nounbridge, nouncanasta, nouncard, nouncard table, nouncontract bridge, nouncourt card, nouncrib, nouncribbage, nouncut, verbdeal, noundeal, verbdealer, noundeck, noundiscard, verbdiscard, noundummy, nounface card, nounflush, nounfull house, noungin rummy, noungrand slam, nounhand, nounjack, nounjoker, nounking, nounkitty, nounknave, nounlead, verboverbid, verbpack, nounpatience, nounpicture card, nounplaying card, nounpoker, nounpontoon, nounqueen, nounraise, verbrubber, nounrummy, nounrun, nounshuffle, verbshuffle, nounsnap, nounsnap, interjectionsolitaire, nounspade, nounstrip poker, nounsuit, nountrick, nountrump, nountrump, verbtwenty-one, nounwhist, nounwild, adjectivewild card, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY Dissidents were routinely arrested on trumped-up charges.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB
Dissidents were routinely arrested on trumped-up charges.· The entire thing was entirely trumped up and she was absolved because of the publicity we gave the case.· Anxious to avoid indictment, peasants trumped up charges against their neighbors, while others accused their rivals of imaginary crimes.· The offer may trump up business for other companies, as well.
NOUN· Anxious to avoid indictment, peasants trumped up charges against their neighbors, while others accused their rivals of imaginary crimes.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
1to play a trump that beats someone else’s card in a game2to do better than someone else in a situation when people are competing with each other: - And perhaps it was time to play the trump card up his sleeve.
- In the struggle for development, every economy has certain advantages or trump cards.
- Parents must recognize that if a child does not want to do homework, the child holds the trump card.
- That night, though, our sincerity was our trump card.
- That was why Gorbachev wanted to negotiate-and that is why, in my opinion, President Reagan was holding the trump card.
- The citizens of Hebron, by contrast, hold all the trump cards.
- This was one of the trump cards of News International in its dispute with the print workers in 1986-87.
- We had beaten him, but he played a final trump card.
By wearing a simple but stunning dress, she had trumped them all.trump something ↔ up phrasal verb to use false information to make someone seem guilty of doing something wrong: They had trumped the whole thing up to get rid of him.—trumped-up adjective: Dissidents were routinely arrested on trumped-up charges.