frequent1 adjectivefrequent2 verb
frequentfre‧quent1 /ˈfriːkwənt/ ●●○ W3 adjective 
WORD ORIGINfrequent
Origin:
1400-1500 French, Latin frequens ‘crowded, full’EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- As a frequent business traveler, I have spent many nights in bland hotel rooms.
- As the treatment began to take effect, her headaches became less frequent.
- Gunshots are so frequent in the neighborhood that she rarely calls the police anymore.
- His job involved making frequent trips to Saudi Arabia.
- My duties brought me into frequent contact with Captain Nagumo.
- Simmons is a frequent guest on daytime TV talk shows.
- The doctor recommended frequent salt baths to help the wound heal.
- Bradycardia is a frequent side effect.
- Despite frequent double-teaming, Shaw was still the Bears' most viable receiving option.
- Fighting may be restrained because the advantage of dangerous tactics will decrease as the habit becomes more frequent in the population.
- Its use is most frequent in the field of consumer products.
- That had to ne injected daily, but her husband recalls the injections being much less frequent.
- The vertiginous episodes tend to grow less frequent and less severe as hearing loss progresses.
- There are frequent references in her notes to such visits.
- There were frequent attempts to check it.
Longman Language Activatoroften happening or often done
· His job involved making frequent trips to Saudi Arabia.· The doctor recommended frequent salt baths to help the wound heal.· My duties brought me into frequent contact with Captain Nagumo. · As the treatment began to take effect, her headaches became less frequent.frequent visitor/traveller/flier etc (=someone who visits, uses something etc frequently) · As a frequent business traveler, I have spent many nights in bland hotel rooms. · Simmons is a frequent guest on daytime TV talk shows.
repeated actions are done on several occasions, especially because they do not have any effect at first: · The torture involved repeated beatings and electric shock treatment.· There have been repeated requests for the United Nations to send peace-keeping forces to the area.· Massieu remains a free man, despite repeated attempts to arrest him on murder and drug charges.
done often as a habit, especially when this is annoying to other people: · Ingrained attitudes and habitual ways of thinking are very difficult to change.· Tony's habitual laziness became even more extreme in winter, and he would sometimes stay in bed until mid afternoon.habitual drinker/gambler/drug user/offender/felon etc (=someone who does something bad or illegal): · My father was a habitual gambler, until my mother packed her bags and threatened to leave.· It is estimated that as many as half the young men in the community are habitual drug users.
use this about things that annoy you because they happen repeatedly over a long time: · It's impossible to work with these constant interruptions.· We've had continual problems with the computer system ever since it was installed.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY
Her headaches are becoming less frequent. Trains rushed past at frequent intervals. She was a frequent visitor to the house.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES Laughter was a rare occurrence in his classroom. Flooding in the area is a common occurrence.
Her headaches are becoming less frequent. Trains rushed past at frequent intervals. She was a frequent visitor to the house. (=happening often)· She disliked Stephen's frequent absences on business.
· A common complaint of children is that parents do not listen to them.
· The Johnsons were regular guests at Eric’s house in Notting Hill.
· Restaurants are subject to regular health and safety inspections.
Laughter was a rare occurrence in his classroom. Flooding in the area is a common occurrence.· Medieval literature contains frequent references to insanity.
(=when something is used a lot)· The heavy use of pesticides in the area led to severe health problems.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN· Laura's frequent absences in London meant that her baby, Emma, was often left behind with Gwenny Hughes.· The national income, too, is hard to calculate exactly in the frequent absence of reliable national statistics.· There is a frequent absence of straight lines between the two periods, however.· The school sent Rachaela a letter saying that Ruth's frequent absences were causing her work to suffer.
· One of the most frequent causes of fighting is the dispute over the possession of desired objects.· Drug-induced renal magnesium wasting is one of the more frequent causes of clinical hypomagnesemia.· Overreaching for an article on nearby furniture is a frequent cause of accidents.· Muscle Tension Tight cervical muscles related to anxiety-depression is a frequent cause of neck pain in an outpatient population.· In the 1950s, male homosexuality was a frequent cause of suicidal attempts or feelings, because of the pre-Woolfenden potential for blackmail.· A frequent cause is marital infidelity.· A less frequent cause is one in which part of the chromosome is attached to another.· A closed loop that some one can catch their foot in and trip is one of the most frequent causes of industrial accidents.
· Efforts are best directed towards ensuring correct use rather than suffering the disruption caused by frequent change.· This species requires frequent change of water.· We know that in most regions there have been frequent changes of climate in the geologically immediate past.· A padded, correctly adjusted saddle, rest breaks and frequent changes in position may help.· Military service also brings about major and frequent changes of domicile.· But the council also said that frequent changes in immigration and asylum policies had played a fundamental and negative role.· More frequent change would have produced a counterproductive restlessness.· The breakdown of departments into functional areas is unfortunately subject to frequent change, making computerisation of the return difficult.
· As already mentioned, an increasing number of research reports shows that a frequent complaint made by patients is lack of information.· Parents are-generally aware that their frequent complaints are hurting their relationships.· Another frequent complaint is that few managers seem to add real value to the work of their subordinates.· This arrangement naturally resulted in frequent complaints by the forest inhabitants about illegal extortion by the foresters.· Background noise Background noise preventing speech reception is a frequent complaint among people whose use a hearing-aid.
· President Gorbachev, with whom Chancellor Helmut Kohl had been in frequent contact, clearly gave his approval.· Friends and business associates of Maurice were in frequent contact.· Firstly people will have more-frequent contact with many more of their neighbours.
· The response: No one ever tried to seize frequent flier miles.· He is a frequent flier and knows some of the pilots by name.· But with electronic ticketing, you can still get advanced seat assignments, check in at curbside and accrue frequent flier mileage.· A: They have the same value to other carriers as frequent flier tickets: None.
· The cottage, which was regularly to shelter four or five inhabitants together with frequent guests, was a tiny building.· I had experienced Mr Weinberg on a number of occasions-he was a frequent guest at the White House.· St Kevin from Glendalough, and St Columcille-Columba from just about everywhere, were frequent guests.· Dvorak and Toscanini were frequent guests.
· Once established, the 20 minute process can be repeated at frequent intervals.· Four soldiers with submachine guns patrolled the room, and an officer made his rounds at frequent intervals.· In chronic cases the potency is usually administered every alternate day, or less frequent intervals if required.· Sight-seeing tours with guides leave Waverley Bridge at frequent intervals each day.· Downpipes should be clean and placed at frequent intervals soas to avoid long gutter runs and changes of direction.· Check the call-sign reception at frequent intervals.· Inevitably, the incontinent patient needs cleaning and drying at very frequent intervals, to prevent infections such as cystitis.· Attempts were made at frequent intervals to contact Mr Clark without success.
· Because of the frequent occurrence of kept, this causes difficulties in quantitative analysis.· Gingival hyperplasia is a frequent occurrence, especially in children and young adults.· Playground fights at my London comprehensive, an austere archetypal 1960s building near Marble Arch, were frequent occurrences.· Before the established use of surnames a recourse to nicknames was almost necessary and certainly of very frequent occurrence.· However, complex eigenvalues and vectors are of frequent occurrence, and require special consideration.· Worse, a spokesman for the Treasury implies this is a frequent occurrence.
· In doing so I will be making frequent reference to the empirical research findings of criminologists working mostly in the positivist tradition.· There are frequent references in her notes to such visits.· There are frequent references in his diary to air-raids, sometimes two or three in the same day.· Video showing rapid and intensive change, for example, will need frequent reference frames to maintain an intelligible motion sequence.· Despite frequent references in the press to the number of Party functionaries in leading posts at the Front, such criticisms persisted.· One area of television where frequent reference has been made to homosexuality is in the arts programmes.
· On his frequent trips to the United States, the Shah was given royal receptions.· Few can afford either the calories or the cost of frequent trips to these gourmet candy stores.
· The information will be largely internally supplied and will have frequent use.· On further questioning, the young woman admitted to frequent use of laxatives.· Both require frequent use of the gearbox if they are to live up to expectations.· We shall make frequent use of this distinction in the course of the present work.· Leave blank lines between paragraphs and make frequent use of headings to hold the reader's interest.· He and Dunn made frequent use of their binoculars.· Allen cast around and within a few yards further came upon a man-made path, narrow and winding, but in frequent use.· The decline in the demand for wooden poles has been accelerated by the frequent use of metal poles.
· These cases require frequent visits and continuing follow-up by the Honorary Welfare Officers.· McNicholas makes frequent visits to Britain to raise funds to keep these projects going.· John Barratt was to oversee the Coniston adventure from Grassington but making frequent visits.· Francis of Assisi, who tamed a very bad wolf there during one of his frequent visits.· Dolly was paying frequent visits to the house.· Now that her brothers had come home, Margarett made frequent visits to Boston.· There would be frequent visits, more songs to be sung, perhaps a few arguments on the way, but nothing vital.· In 1917 Pétain threw a share of the blame for the mutinies upon the frequent visits of Deputies to the front.
· Florence was a frequent visitor ... and had many of her ideas adopted in Parliament through the devotion of her brother-in-law.· Those of them who live in Calcutta are frequent visitors to Motherhouse, especially on festivals and feast days.· Malachi was a more frequent visitor.· And the child, Fritha, or Frith, was a frequent visitor.· Dolly was a frequent visitor to the house and there would be long conferences.· We have been frequent visitors at Government House and have been staying also at their cottage, New Norfolk.· Landladies were among the more frequent visitors to Bloomsbury House as the records indicate: Often, lodging and employment went together.· After the election, I became a frequent visitor to Downing Street.
WORD FAMILYnounfrequency ≠ infrequencyadjectivefrequent ≠ infrequentverbfrequentadverbfrequently ≠ infrequently
happening or doing something often OPP infrequentmore/less frequent Her headaches are becoming less frequent. Trains rushed past at frequent intervals. She was a frequent visitor to the house.frequent1 adjectivefrequent2 verb
frequentfre‧quent2 /frɪˈkwent $ frɪˈkwent, ˈfriːkwənt/ verb [transitive] formal VERB TABLE
frequent
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | frequent |
| he, she, it | frequents | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | frequented |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have frequented |
| he, she, it | has frequented | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had frequented |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will frequent |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have frequented |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am frequenting |
| he, she, it | is frequenting | |
| you, we, they | are frequenting | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was frequenting |
| you, we, they | were frequenting | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been frequenting |
| he, she, it | has been frequenting | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been frequenting |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be frequenting |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been frequenting |
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
- Again, he was in an hotel, although not the kind he would normally care to frequent.
- Although he frequented the great houses of the city, his own quarters were modest.
- He tells the friend that he rarely frequents such spots because nature is not his teacher.
- Mallard duck, grey wagtail and occasionally kingfishers frequent the waterside. 6.
- Nor are the skies above frequented by commercial airlines, which eliminates interfering radar signals.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES Laughter was a rare occurrence in his classroom. Flooding in the area is a common occurrence.
(=happening often)· She disliked Stephen's frequent absences on business.
· A common complaint of children is that parents do not listen to them.
· The Johnsons were regular guests at Eric’s house in Notting Hill.
· Restaurants are subject to regular health and safety inspections.
Laughter was a rare occurrence in his classroom. Flooding in the area is a common occurrence.· Medieval literature contains frequent references to insanity.
(=when something is used a lot)· The heavy use of pesticides in the area led to severe health problems.
WORD FAMILYnounfrequency ≠ infrequencyadjectivefrequent ≠ infrequentverbfrequentadverbfrequently ≠ infrequently
to go to a particular place often: The bar was frequented by actors from the nearby theatre.