Collocations with the Verb HAVE

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A collocation is a pair or group of two or more words that are commonly used together in English.

Here is the list of common collocations with Verb HAVE that you should learn.

Learn collocations with the verb HAVE

Have a bab	Have a backache
Have a bad fall	Have a bad temper
Have a bath	Have a birthday
Have a bite	Have a break
Have a business trip	Have a busy day
Have a career/a goal	Have a chance
Have a chat	Have a cold
Have a competition	Have a confrontation
Have a conversation/chat	Have a cup of tea/coffee
Have a dance	Have a day off
Have a discussion	Have a dispute
Have a doubt	Have a dream
Have a drill	Have a drink
Have a feeling	Have a fight
Have a fit	Have a game
Have a glass of wine	Have a go
Have a goal	Have a good time
Have a nice day!	Have a great weekend
Have a haircut	Have a hard time
Have a headache	Have a holiday
Have a jacuzzi	Have a jog
Have a laugh	Have a lecture
Have a lesson	Have a lie down
Have a limp	Have a lisp
Have a listen	Have a look
Have a massage	Have a meal
Have a meeting	Have a moment
Have a nap	Have a night mare
Have a party	Have a passion for
Have a plan	Have a problem
Have a quarrel	Have a relationship
Have a rest	Have a ride
Have a right	Have a run
Have a safe journey	Have a salad
Have a sandwich	Have a scrub
Have a shave	Have a shower
Have a smell	Have a snack
Have a snooze	Have a stretch
Have a stroke	Have a swim
Have a talk	Have a taste
Have a temperature	Have a think
Have a touch	Have a try
Have a walk	Have a wash
Have a wish	Have a word
Have a workout	Have access (to)
Have an accident	Have an appointment with
Have an argument	Have an effect (on)
Have an energy bar	Have an event
Have an exam	Have an excuse
Have an experience	Have an ice-cream
Have an idea	Have an interview
Have an opportunity	Have breakfast
Have difficulty	Have faith
Have food	Have fun/a good time
Have no education	Have no fear
Have patience	Have a rest
Have room	Have self-esteem
Have sex	Have skills
Have some sugar	Have something to eat
Have soul	Have success
Have sympathy	Have the chance (to)
Have time	Have trouble
Have work

Examples of Collocations with the verb HAVE

Have a bath

• I can’t remember the last time I had a bath.
  

Have a break

• Let’s have a break when you finish this exercise
  

Have a chat

• I’ll have a chat to John about it.
  

Have a coffee

• Would you like to have a cup of coffee?
  

Have a conversation

• Can we have a conversation before we make any decision?
  

Have a dance

• Let’s have a dance together.
  

Have a day off

• I have a day off to take care of my grandmother.
  

Have a decision

• We have a decision and a resolution.
  

Have a dispute

• I have a dispute with anyone who would challenge us.
  

Have a dream

• I had a dream that I won the lottery.
  

Have a drill

• We have a drill. We’re going to drill.
  

Have a drink

• Would you like to have a drink after work?
  

Have a fight

• My best friend and I had a fight.
  

Have a game

• He said we could have a game.
  

Have a haircut

• She has a haircut.
  

Have a holiday

• I want to have a holiday with my family.
  

Have a jog

• You should have a jog in the evening.
  

Have a lecture

• I will have a lecture tomorrow.
  

Have a lesson

• I have a lesson in 15 minutes.
  

Have a lie down

• I’ll go home and have a lie down instead.
  

Have a meal

• Seldom, if ever, do I have a meal alone.
  

Have a nap

• I was exhausted so I had a nap on the sofa.
  

Have a party

• It’s your birthday nextweek, let’s have a party!
  

Have a problem

• Our school is having financial problem.
  

Have a quarrel

• Mrs. Ridgewell asked if they’d had a quarrel.
  

Have a rest

• You look awful. Lie down and have a rest.
  

Have a run

• You have a run in your stocking.
  

Have a scrub

• If you don’t have a scrub, you can make your own.
  

Have a shave

• I’ll just have a shave before we go.
  

Have a shower

• I usually have two showers a day.
  

Have a snooze

• I’m going to have a snooze after lunch.
  

Have a stretch

• If your machine does not have a stretch stitch, use a zigzag stitch.
  

Have a sweet

• He did not have a sweet.
  

Have a swim

• This afternoon I have a swim meet.
  

Have a talk

• We can have a talk about it some other time.
  

Have a think

• He doesn’t eat meat, he’s avoiding cheese, he’ll have a think about wine.
  

Have a walk

• We would often have a walk of an evening.
  

Have a wash

• I need to have a wash before dinner.
  

Have an argument

• I had an argument with my father.
  

Have fun

• Did you have fun at the party.
  

Have lunch

• I’m having lunch with Linda today.
  

Have sympathy

• I really have sympathy for them.

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