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frequent English

Meaning frequent meaning

What does frequent mean?
Definitions in simple English

frequent Adjective

— An event is frequent if it happens many times in a short time. Broken toys is the most frequent reason children ask for help here. Seeing a lion is not a frequent event around here.

frequent Verb

— Someone frequents a place if they go there regularly. I frequent some of the restaurants on this street.

frequent

— adjective coming at short intervals or habitually a frequent guest frequent complaints — adjective frequently encountered a frequent (or common) error is using the transitive verb 'lay' for the intransitive 'lie' — verb (= haunt) be a regular or frequent visitor to a certain place She haunts the ballet — verb (= shop, shop at) do one's shopping at; do business with; be a customer or client of

Synonyms frequent synonyms

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frequent English » English

often common repeated haunt regular patronize visit frequently usual oftentimes many times sponsor shop at shop resort repetitive repetitious remain patronise multiple incessant hang out general continual constant buy at attend widespread widely used wander visit usual ordinary universal routine rife reiterative recurring recurrent quick public prevailing popular permanent ordinary not rare not infrequent normal multiplex multifold mix loiter

Topics frequent topics

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States Time Aspectual time Once

Often

Conjugation frequent conjugation

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frequent · verb

Examples frequent examples

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Simple sentences

She's a frequent visitor to this country.
The teacher was worried by Tom's frequent absence from class.
There are good grounds for the view that Paris was the scene of frequent riots even before the revolution of 1789.
Typhoons are frequent in this region.
High fever is a frequent accompaniment of influenza.
There is no other country in the world where earthquakes are as frequent as in Japan.
He makes frequent visits to Japan on business.
He interrupted the speaker with frequent questions.
They make frequent trips to Europe.
Japan has frequent earthquakes.
The European Union is set up with the aim of ending the frequent and bloody wars between neighbours, which culminated in the Second World War.
Mining-induced earthquakes are a frequent occurrence in the Ruhr area.
Carelessness causes frequent accidents.
He has frequent arguments with his wife.
Typhoons are frequent there in fall.
My boss called me down for frequent absence from work.
The teacher was worried by Tom's frequent absences from class.
Fiona's letters were becoming less and less frequent.
His visits became less frequent as time passed.
As a child, my daughter had frequent asthma attacks.
Frequent sex is not good.

Movie subtitles

In five years, we will know for certain, from Kepler's results, how frequent Earth-like planets are.
In the first week, all frequent visitors of the restaurant. took special attention to the new violinist.
But our reunions are so frequent.
In it, there is the frequent entry of a single word: dancing.
He has to take frequent rests. The doctor says.
But that of a kind of high priest to a virgin goddess then my drinks grew deeper and more frequent, that's all.
What I mean is, he's been a frequent guest in your home.
In the past, of course, that type of experience was very frequent among saints.
But even so, no matter how hard I tried. her attacks increased in violence and became more and more frequent.
Your husband has testified. that you have frequent fits of temper.
And then towards the end, the letters got less frequent.
Her stays in Paris grew longer and more frequent.
You've testified that the Phantom has been a frequent guest. at the numerous parties given by Miss Angela Dunning. That is correct.
A curious phenomenon, Your Highness, but quite frequent.
He has to take frequent rests.
I haven't been able to reach you not knowing what ice-cream parlors you frequent.
They are becoming more frequent, and you're afraid.
She said that all the best people of Paris frequent it.
Then he or she will view the enthusiasms of youth problems which are the frequent products of a sheltered immaturity.
He's a well-known New York attorney and a frequent visitor to our fair land.
Come again. Come right frequent.
The work was hard, the scoldings frequent and occasionally he beat me.
I learned of his frequent visits here from my daughter.
She had frequent attacks, and needed frequent shots.
Do you suffer from frequent itching?
I'm afraid you'll find very little integrity. among some of the men who frequent our waterfront.
How frequent?
If you frequent criminal circles, you can't be choosey.
There is no shelter, captain. - Are these attacks frequent?
Anyway, those walks through the park were a frequent thing with her, her nerves were shot and the doctor recommended it.
I see you frequent bars.
They confuse illness with evil and use this excuse to induce you to frequent the salons.

News and current affairs

However, being radical does not necessarily mean being irrational, and revolutionary Iran has given frequent proof of its pragmatism.
Manufacturing production has plummeted, the trade balance has deteriorated sharply, and corporate bankruptcies are increasingly frequent.
This is easily explained by their geographic segregation, higher levels of unemployment, higher school dropout rates, and disproportionately frequent interactions with the criminal justice system.
Indeed, many in the financial community have little understanding of the intricate workings of the macroeconomic system--as evidenced by their frequent mistakes in managing it.
The security policy of the Bush administration has been worse than frightening; it has been, to borrow one of the president's most frequent utterances nowadays, terrifying.
Inspections would need to be frequent and intrusive to reassure the outside world of what Iran is doing - or, perhaps more to the point, what it is not doing.
Communities are already facing more extreme and frequent droughts, floods, and other weather events.
Corruption is limited by the frequent alternation of power, since tyrants typically need many years to build up systems of mega-corruption, usually involving family and business associates.
I am a frequent IMF critic, so when the IMF gets something right, I should acknowledge it.
Travel broadens the mind, they say, but for that to happen, more is required than merely frequent changes of location.
Despite frequent accusations to the contrary, Georgia's viability as an independent state is very much in Russia's interests.
The Adzhar people consider themselves Georgians, but still have frequent squabbles with the central government, so how could ethnically distinct Abkhazia and South Ossetia feel assured that their relations with Georgia would work out any better?
Indeed, they threaten to become much more frequent and troubling.
My Princeton University colleague Daniel Kahneman and several co-researchers tried to measure people's subjective well-being by asking them about their mood at frequent intervals during a day.
Furthermore, they are prone to frequent drought, which reduces their output significantly, leaving many as little more than decorative infrastructure landmarks.
Higher and more frequent yields mean less poverty in farm families, and lower food prices for cities.
Though Pakistan has not experienced a nuclear breach, and the government insists that safeguards remain robust, the country's increasingly frequent and severe bouts of instability raise serious questions about the future.
The frequent and spectacular early modern bankruptcies of the French and Spanish monarchies concerned for the most part debt owed to foreigners.
In rural areas, corruption emanates from frequent expropriation of land-lease contracts held by farmers working on collectively owned land, which local officials then turn over to non-agriculture land developers.
China's financial system is failing in that respect, owing to frequent administrative and political intervention.
Since then, many of China's inherent strengths have been sapped by all-too-frequent external shocks.
In agriculture-dependent countries like Ethiopia, longer droughts and more frequent flooding are threatening livelihoods and food supplies.
But they also have a historically ingrained sense of insecurity, owing to frequent conquest and domination, which is being aggravated today by the presence of American troops to their west in Iraq and to their east in Afghanistan.
China also has become more insistent in pressing its territorial claims both to India's northeastern Arunachal Pradesh state and to the Japanese-controlled Senkaku Islands, with Chinese warships making more frequent forays into Japanese waters.

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