Meaning & use
welcome packs
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Meanings
nouncountable
Sets of information, small gifts, or useful items given to people who have just arrived or joined.
Grammar: Countable and normally plural in this form; the singular is 'welcome pack'.
Patterns
- a welcome pack for someone
- give out welcome packs
- receive a welcome pack
Every new student gets a welcome pack with a campus map and a timetable.
The company hands out welcome packs on the first day of training.
Inside the welcome pack there was a notebook, a pen, and a discount card.
nouncountablebusiness
A collection of introductory documents sent to new customers or members.
Grammar: Often used with 'digital' or 'online' when the material is sent by email.
Patterns
- send a welcome pack to someone
- a digital welcome pack
We send a digital welcome pack as soon as someone signs up.
The welcome pack explains how to log in and contact support.
Word forms
| singular | welcome pack |
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Common combinations
- hand out welcome packs
- Volunteers handed out welcome packs at the entrance.
- a welcome pack for new members
- They put together a welcome pack for new members.
- receive a welcome pack
- You will receive a welcome pack within three days.
- a digital welcome pack
- The digital welcome pack includes links to all the forms.
- contents of the welcome pack
- Check the contents of the welcome pack before you start.
Synonyms and how they differ
- welcome kit
- Very close in meaning and common in American English; 'welcome pack' is the usual British choice.
- starter pack
- Focuses on the items you need to begin an activity, not on welcoming a newcomer.
- information pack
- Broader: it can be sent to anyone, not only to people who have just arrived.
Word family
Commonly confused: welcome packs or package?
welcome packs vs package
A 'package' is a parcel or a set of things sold together; a 'welcome pack' is specifically the set given to a newcomer.
Practice
Which sentence uses 'welcome packs' most naturally?
Choose one answer.
'Welcome packs' is a plural noun, so it works as the object of 'receive'. The other options wrongly use it as a verb.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “welcome packs”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.