drink

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Drinks - general words
blender
caffeinated
carbonated
chaser
craft
drink
flat
flight
glass
hospitality
hospitality tray
ice cube
iced
Jägerbomb
shaved ice
straw
sundowner
thirst-quenching
top something up
weak

beverage | American Dictionary

beverage
noun[ C ]
us/ˈbev·rɪdʒ/
a drink of any type:
cool, refreshing beverages
What’s your favorite beverage?

beverage | Business English

beverage
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈbevərɪdʒ/us
a drink that is produced to sell to people:
the alcoholic beverage, tobacco, and gambling industries
The agency regulates and controls the sale of all beverages exceeding 16% alcohol.

Examples of beverage

beverage
This word fits well if it refers to the mixing of a beverage inside the lidded vessel.
By contrast, the rural activities of the food, beverages and tobacco sector provide 58 % of exports.
More precisely, the leaves used to make the beverage mate.
These include several companies from the food, beverage, and tobacco sector and also several technological companies.
The second largest industry allocation over this period corresponds to food, beverages and tobacco (15.4 per cent).
The food, beverages and tobacco sub-sector represents 46 per cent of the total sales directly attributable to tourists.
On three separate items, subjects report frequency of alcohol use in the past 30 days for each of the three different types of alcoholic beverages.
Formation and occurrence of flavor compounds in wine and distilled alcoholic beverages.
It asked specifically what foods or beverages had been consumed, the date of consumption and the vendor where purchased.
It sweetened the ' beverages revolution ' of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
For alcoholic beverages, seafood, and other aquatic products, no change in caloric intake was assumed.
In 1994, only 8.6 per cent of funds collected from deposits on beverage containers were returned.
But the relative clause in (i) is clearly not lacking any such denotation (it is supplied by beverage).
And milk is the only beverage that naturally provides the unique combination of calcium in protein for healthy, effective weight loss support.
The company claimed that the exclusive beverage contracts were a restraint of trade, and therefore illegal.
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Collocations withbeverage

beverage

These are words often used in combination with beverage.

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alcoholic beverage
Unlike wine and spirits, beer was not generally considered a ' real ' alcoholicbeverage.
beverage container
The beveragecontainer industry, a very sensitive industry, has been seriously hit by the recent industrial recession.
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