givenverb
uk/ˈɡɪv.ən/us/ˈɡɪv.ən/past participle of give
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Giving, providing and supplying
- accommodate
- accord
- administer
- administration
- assignment
- award
- dish
- go round (somewhere)
- hand sth around
- hand sth back
- hand sth in
- hand sth out
- invest
- lay
- spare
- stake sb to sth
- step
- step forward
- supplier
- supply
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givenpreposition
uk/ˈɡɪv.ən/us/ˈɡɪv.ən/knowing about or considering a particular thing:
Given his age, he's a remarkably fast runner.
Given (the fact) that he's had six months to do this, he hasn't made much progress.
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Knowledge and awareness
- abroad
- acquaintance
- as every schoolboy/schoolchild knows idiom
- at/in the back of your mind idiom
- awareness
- be ahead of the game idiom
- consciousness
- familiarity
- firsthand
- general knowledge
- glimpse
- grounding
- have a nodding acquaintance with sb/sth idiom
- literacy
- loop
- omniscient
- perception
- perceptual
- reflexivity
- schoolboy
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givenadjective
uk/ˈɡɪv.ən/us/ˈɡɪv.ən/given adjective (ARRANGED)
already decided, arranged, or agreed:
At the given signal, the group rushed forward to the barrier.
The bomb could go off at any given (= any) time and in any given (= any) place.
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Certainty
- (as) clear as day idiom
- (as) sure as eggs is eggs idiom
- and that's flat! idiom
- assured
- assuredly
- bet
- consider it done idiom
- cut and dried
- decided
- decidedly
- definite
- dispute
- doubt
- mistake
- natch
- pronounced
- proof positive
- seal
- set/put the seal on sth idiom
- shadow
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given adjective (HAVE HABIT)
be given to sth
to do something regularly or as a habit:
She was given to staying in bed till lunchtime.
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Standard and routine
- bog-standard
- conformance
- conformity
- day-to-day
- default
- diet
- institutionalize
- orthodox
- regular
- regularize
- round
- routine
- routinely
- set
- standard
- staple
- std
- stock
- the daily round idiom
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givennoun [ C ]
uk/ˈɡɪv.ən/us/ˈɡɪv.ən/something that is certain to happen:
You can take it as a given that there will be champagne at the wedding.
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Certainty
- (as) clear as day idiom
- (as) sure as eggs is eggs idiom
- and that's flat! idiom
- assured
- assuredly
- bet
- consider it done idiom
- cut and dried
- decided
- decidedly
- definite
- dispute
- doubt
- mistake
- natch
- pronounced
- proof positive
- seal
- set/put the seal on sth idiom
- shadow
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