Converse of object

• subsidize: We also have a large subsidized canteen which has theme days, which I enjoy.

• run: She herself is a member of the SVP Conference, which runs a canteen for 200 children every day.

• visit: We spent much of the day in a classroom and stayed together as a group when visiting the canteen for tea and lunch breaks.

Preposition: at

• lunchtime: It got me to the front of the queue in the canteen at lunchtime!

Adjective modifier

• mobile: When we came out with the examiner he took us to a mobile canteen.

• old: The museum offers refreshments in the refurbished old works canteen.

Modifies a noun

• meal: Typical formal hall costs about £ 8. Typical canteen meal costs about £ 2.50.

• assistant: I moved around and got a very well paid job in a factory as a canteen assistant.

• facility: They will return to base to use the canteen facilities.

• menu: They were talking earnestly about what the canteen menu might be.

• culture: Much has been said about our culture, the canteen culture, the occupational culture.

• staff: The canteen staff would heat them up for her.

Noun used with modifier

• prison: Personal Spends All inmates are allowed access to a certain amount of cash which can be used to buy items from the prison canteen.

• factory: We moved on to the factory canteen to eat.

• staff: The trust has closed the staff canteen to help save money.

• pit: Pegswood pit canteen was quite a small place and only supplied meals for a few of the workers.

• workplace: In order to achieve a heart beat award hospital and workplace canteens and schools have to comply with a wide range of criteria.

• school: Getting all your food from the school canteen in a tin, or from stalls on the side of the road, is great.

Possessives

• t: Let me guess, tha'd left t ' mac in t ' canteen?

Preposition: of

• cutlery: Pigs are sound sleepers, packed tightly together like spoons in a canteen of cutlery.