ADJ
- acute, excellent, good, normal, sharp
- bad, impaired, poor
VERB + HEARING
- have, possess
- Whales have acute hearing
- lose
- She lost her hearing when she was a child
- get back, regain
- Is there any chance that he'll get his hearing back?
- affect, impair, make worse
HEARING + VERB
- deteriorate, get worse, go
- His hearing began to deteriorate. Her hearing was already going
- come back, get better, improve
- Two months after the accident her hearing came back
HEARING + NOUN
- impairment, loss, problems
- aid
- to have/wear a hearing aid
- person
- a course in sign language for both deaf and hearing people
PHRASES
- hard of hearing
- You'll have to speak more loudly. I'm afraid she's rather hard of hearing
ADJ
- final, preliminary
- fair
- formal, full
- open, public
- private, secret
- oral
- appeal, custody, disciplinary, petition, pre-trial
- committee, congressional, court, tribunal
VERB + HEARING
- conduct, hold
- Most councils hold hearings in public
- ask for, call for, demand
- Protesters are calling for a public hearing
- get, have
- She said that she had had a very fair hearing from the disciplinary tribunal
- attend
- adjourn
- tell
- The hearing was told that the child had been left with a 14-year-old babysitter
PREP
- at a/the ~
- At a preliminary hearing the judge announced that the trial would begin on March 21
- in a/the ~
- She was granted a divorce in a five-minute hearing
- pending a/the ~
- Pending the hearing of the case by the court, the business will be allowed to continue trading
- without a ~
- A High Court judge dismissed the case without a hearing
VERB + HEARING
- give sb/sth
- At least give our ideas a fair hearing before you reject them
- get
- You haven't got much chance of your plan getting a sympathetic hearing
- deserve
- Their views deserve a hearing
PREP
- ~ for
- All I'm asking is a fair hearing for my ideas