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Also: a stick that is passed from one runner to another in a relay race; Also: a hollow metal stick that a majorette or drum major turns and throws while marching; Also: a thick, heavy stick used as a weapon by police officers

It was something of a hollow victory - she won the case but lost all her savings in legal fees.; Will their good intentions become realities or are they just hollow promises?

a hollow sound

The dog found a hollow in the ground to hide in from the wind.

We hiked along Bear Hollow last weekend.

I was told the news first and then I relayed it to the others.; TV pictures of the war were relayed around the world by satellite.

Relays of workers kept the machines going through the night.; After the landslide, volunteers worked in relays to rescue people buried under the rubble.

The bomb reduced the house to rubble.

They agreed to raise the trade embargo if three conditions were met.; After three weeks the siege was raised.

The announcement raised a cheer/laugh.; I want to raise (= talk about) two problems/questions with you.; This raises a number of important issues.;

raise concerns/doubts/fears: The company announced a package of reforms to address concerns raised by shareholders.; raise issues/objections/questions

I want to start my own business if I can raise (= obtain) the money/cash/capital/funds.; raise capital/funds/money: We will raise funds for reconstruction by disposing of assets.;

The share issue in the coffee company aims to raise €5m from investors eager to invest in ethical concerns.; raise a loan/mortgage

The exporter raises an invoice in the usual way on the overseas buyer.

If you have a technical fault, you can raise a call using the in-house system.; I've been trying to raise Jack/Tokyo all day.

a packet of cereal/biscuits/crisps/peanuts; a packet of chewing gum/cigarettes; She bought a packet of sweets to suck on the journey.

a packet of sugar; a packet of ketchup; a sachet of shampoo

Another: a very small container for holding a small amount of a liquid, sugar, etc.

It will be cheaper to send it as a small packet.; a packet of stamps

Also: a small package or envelope, or a collection of things in it

Our bookkeeping training packet includes everything you need to get started.

Another: pack a collection of documents that have been put together as a set

That house must have cost a packet!; Someone's making a packet out of this business.; The advertising campaign must have cost them a packet.

cost/pay/make a packet

She got £25 in cash in her first wage packet.

It's easy to go on expensive holidays when you have a pay packet the size of hers.; Investors were outraged when the former chief executive's pay packet rose 75% to £475,000.

Another: US - pay envelope; an envelope that contains the money that someone has earned - At first, the jump from the Friday pay packet to the monthly pay cheque can create what seems like two or three weeks of cash starvation.

The post office employee was accused of tampering with postal packets.

tampering with sth: They were charged with tampering with evidence.; product/evidence/records tampering

I stuck a 50p stamp on the envelope.; a valuable stamp collection; She affixed a stamp to the envelope.; He sealed the envelope and put a stamp on it.; a stamp album

A date stamp inside the front cover of a library book shows when it should be returned.; It is necessary to stamp your passport.; Every carton of yogurt is stamped with a sell-by date.; The invoice was stamped with the date that payment had been received.

The lawyer stamped the certificate with her seal.; She's stamped her name in all of her books; Sell-by dates are stamped on eggs.; The dark red royal crest was stamped on the back of the envelope.

Although this painting clearly bears the stamp of genius, we don't know who painted it.; Each manager has left his or her own stamp on the way the company has evolved.;

Also: to mark with a particular quality or show that someone has a particular quality; Our new administrator seems to be trying to stamp her authority on every aspect of the department.

With a stamp of her foot she stormed out.; She stood by the road, stamping her feet to stay warm.; Our new administrator seems to be trying to stamp her authority on every aspect of the department.; With a stamp of her foot she hurried out.

Also: to put a foot down on the ground hard and quickly, making a loud noise, often to show anger

The Board will meet Thursday to discuss the contract and is likely to give its stamp of approval Friday.; The foreign-made goods still have not earned the government's stamp of approval.

Manufacturers of tobacco products have to attach a revenue stamp to each packet.

Two leading egg producers have been prosecuted for altering the date stamp on their eggs.; The forms will be date stamped and worked on in strict chronological order.

Another: a specially printed piece of paper worth a specific dollar amount which the US government provides to poor people for buying food; More than 200,000 retailers are authorized to accept food stamps for groceries.

Another: a device used for printing with raised letters, numbers, or pictures made of an elastic substance such as rubber that you cover with ink and press against a surface, or the printed letters, etc., made in this way;

The guard marked my pass with a rubber stamp.; His secretary signs the stack of papers using a rubber stamp with his signature on it.

The boss makes the decisions and the committee just rubber-stamps them.; Congress is not going to simply rubber-stamp any policy the president proposes.; The board is expected to rubber-stamp the approval next month.

used to describe a group or organization that gives approval to ideas, projects, laws, etc. without examining them carefully first; The problem we face in this country is rubber-stamp boards.; a rubber-stamp legislature/parliament

The mayor has a lot of power, and city counselors provide a rubber stamp.

Any opposition to the new government was immediately stamped on by the army.

The new legislation is intended to stamp out child prostitution.; Our first goal is to stamp out hunger.

She stomped up the stairs and slammed her bedroom door.; I wish those people upstairs would stop stomping around.; She had waited hours already and was about to stomp away furiously.

Another: to put a foot down on the ground hard and quickly, making a loud noise, often to show anger

I stomped on his toes and ran away.; Also: to treat someone or something badly, or to defeat him, her, or it; This is another example of the big companies joining together to stomp on small businesses.

She affixed a stamp to the envelope.; The sticker must be affixed to your windshield.

The affixes un- and -less are often used to make negative words, such as "unhappy" and "careless".

The castle was under siege for months.; After a month-long siege, they gave themselves up to federal agents.; also: That whole weekend at Cannes, Brigitte Bardot was under siege by photographers.

The town had been besieged for two months but still resisted the aggressors.

When the pop star tried to leave her hotel, she was besieged by waiting journalists and fans.

After showing the controversial documentary, the channel was besieged with phone calls from angry viewers.

a bumper/window sticker; Sophie's notebook is covered with stickers.; There were two different price stickers on the shoes I wanted to buy.; Dana collects stickers of cartoon characters.

bumper sticker - a small sign on a car bumper that expresses an opinion or tells a joke

I got my truck for $2,000 less than the sticker price.

It is selling for $18.89 instead of for the list price of $34.95.; This valuation takes into account normal educational discounts: the list price would be significantly higher.

get/experience sticker shock: I think everybody who goes to the pump to fill up their car gets sticker shock.; Laser printers are now as cheap as $150, but the toner cartridges are guaranteed to induce sticker shock.

Exactly how the land is to be divided up is the main sticking point of the peace talks.

Timmy had sticking plasters on both knees.

he company is using multimedia to increase the stickiness of visits to its Oxford Street Store.

All our parcels are sent out with return address labels.

the crest of a hill/wave; We climbed to the crest of the hill.

The flood waters crested Thursday (= reached their highest level).

Mrs Singh is still riding the crest of a wave of popularity.

It's a real feather in our cap to be playing in the state championship.; The award was another feather in his cap.

He used the classified information to feather his own nest.

The rim of the cup was chipped and broken.; My reading glasses have wire rims.; The martini glass was rimmed with sugar.

Another: the outer edge of something, esp. of something curved or circular

We supply systems for clients on the Pacific Rim.

Another: the countries and areas that are on the edge of the Pacific Ocean, especially in East Asia, when they are considered as an economic group

The windows were wet where the rime had melted.

a chipped glass; All the plates were old and chipped.

He's got new rimless reading glasses.; rimless spectacles; His eyes were concealed by thick, rimless spectacles.; She was dressed in a sleeveless black waistcoat and rimless sunglasses.

gold-rimmed glasses; At the bottom of the garden was a rock-rimmed pool.; She was wearing dark-rimmed glasses.; Wear a broad-rimmed hat if you are in the sun.; Serve the cocktail in a cocoa-rimmed glass.

I made myself a large mug of cocoa (= enough to fill a mug) and went to bed.; He washed up his mug and put it back on the shelf.

He was mugged in broad daylight.

I spilled some tea into my saucer.; She served the tea in cups with saucers.

She decided that freelancing was a mug's game.