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tea

US /ti/

noun Core · B1 Ăn uống

Definition

a beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water

Tested in TOEIC business and workplace contexts.

Examples

Would you like tea or coffee with your breakfast?

Collocations

  • Easy hot cup of tea
    describing hot cup of tea (used of physical heat; having a high or higher than desirable temperature or giving off heat or feeling or causing a sensation of heat or burning)
  • Medium afternoon tea break in the office lounge
    describing afternoon tea break in the office lounge (the part of the day between noon and evening)
  • Hard organic green tea export standards
    describing organic green tea export standards (a fertilizer that is derived from animal or vegetable matter)
  • Very Hard not one's cup of tea in career choices
    describing not one's cup of tea in career choices (negation of a word or group of words)

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