ADJ
- constructive, excellent, good, interesting, helpful, positive, practical, sensible, valuable
- absurd, bizarre, impractical, ludicrous, outrageous, preposterous, ridiculous, stupid
- tentative
VERB + SUGGESTION
- have
- Has anyone got any suggestions for a title? I've had several helpful suggestions from colleagues
- come up with, give sb, make, offer, put forward
- Can you give us any suggestions for a slogan? May I make a suggestion?
- accept, act on, adopt, take up
- I think we might take up the suggestion of printing the books in Hong Kong
- take sb up on
- May we take you up on your suggestion of sharing the costs for the party?
- deny, dismiss, reject
- They dismissed the suggestion that they hadn't worked hard. He rejected my suggestion as impractical
- welcome
- consider, look at, note
- We have noted your suggestion and will give it due consideration
PREP
- at the ~ of
- At the suggestion of his boss, he resigned
- ~ about/as to/ concerning/on
- Management welcomes practical suggestions on how to improve the facilities
- ~ for
- suggestions for further reading
PHRASES
- amid suggestions that
- She left the country amid suggestions that she had stolen from the firm
- be open to suggestions
- I'm not sure what to do with all this money, but I'm open to suggestions
ADJ
- implicit
- hypnotic
- analgesia through hypnotic suggestion
PREP
- by/through ~
- There's no scientific basis to the method?it works by suggestion
PHRASES
- the power of suggestion
- These healers claim to remove the pain by the power of suggestion
PREP
- at the ~ of
- At the slightest suggestion of criticism, he loses his temper
- ~ of