Object

• subject: I decide I will broach the subject on the way down in the train.

• topic: The Parents ' Pack has leaflets to help you broach the topic.

• idea: Late one evening I broached the idea to my friend.

• question: She broaches the question of how we are to harmonize the two.

• matter: Then I broached the matter with a party of British Transport Commission officials visiting the lock.

• issue: You might decide to get someone to broach the issue on your behalf.

Converse of object

• wear: She wore a bright red glass broach like a bunch of grapes.

• cut: Use a cutting broach to open the hole for the new bearing.

Modifies a noun

• spire: Above these at the base of the broach spire are clock faces, the clock a gift of 1885.

• stop: Large, almost rounded, two-centred arch, chamfered with broach stops; reveals have two holes apiece for hinges.

Modifying Another Word

• even: Yet what is the chance of a Labor government even broaching this with the business lobby?

• first: She said the idea was first broached at a partners ' conference over the summer.

• also: Generic issues eg staff relations, supervision, controlling the office environment, are also broached.

• not: The potential effects of the decision on family law or commercial leases were not broached.

• never: But it seems that there are some topics that even great writers should never broach.

• n't: Some ca n't broach the subject, full stop; others don't know how to start or where to take it from there.

Noun used with modifier

• glass: She wore a bright red glass broach like a bunch of grapes.