COSSET | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

Meaning of cosset in English

(Definition of cosset from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of cosset

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I do not like the word, but we are talking about cosseting the consumer; this is the important thing.
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Alternatively, are we seeking to create a cosy little club, some sections of which will be cosseted at the expense of others?
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We have decided—rightly or wrongly—that we have to treat persons of that age as adults and that to cosset them is wrong.
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This is not a policy of fairness; it is a policy of consolidating and cosseting privilege.
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For millions of people, weekends are the only times available for them to cosset their special loves—cars, gardens and homes.
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It has been cossetted for far too long.
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We must cosset and look after the existing customers if we want to ensure that the recession does not destroy the industry altogether.
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He is cossetted to the tune of £40,000 a year of public money.
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The staff will be instructed to comfort and cosset the offenders.
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He can be much loved and cosseted and can be the most faithful animal.
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The capitalists have to be cosseted and their confidence built up.
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All these firms are sustained by public money, protected, and, indeed, cossetted by public money.
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Any idea that, in general, prisoners are kept in a cossetted or comfortable state is well astray.
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They do not wish to be cosseted, though it would be foolish to deny that they would not benefit from any limitation of liability.
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We feel that it will have to be a good deal fattened and cossetted before it reaches its proper stature.
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Translations of cosset

in Chinese (Traditional)
寵愛,疼愛, 溺愛…
in Chinese (Simplified)
宠爱,疼爱, 溺爱…
in Spanish
mimar…
in Portuguese
mimar…
in more languages
in French
in Turkish
in Dutch
in Czech
in Danish
in Indonesian
in Thai
in Vietnamese
in Polish
in Swedish
in Malay
in German
in Norwegian
in Ukrainian
dorloter…
şımartmak…
vertroetelen…
hýčkat…
forkæle, forvænne…
memanjakan…
ดูแลมากเกินไป…
nâng niu…
rozpieszczać…
dalta med, klema bort…
memanjakan…
verhätscheln…
skjemme bort, dulle med, forkjæle…
пестити, голубити…
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