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economics
1. n. (social sciences) The study of resource allocation, distribution and consumption; of capital and investment; and of management of the factors of production.
without
1. adv. (archaic, or literary) Outside, externally.
2. adv. Lacking something.
Being from a large, poor family, he learned to live without.
3. adv. (euphemism) In prostitution: without a condom being worn.
4. prep. (archaic, or literary) Outside of, beyond.
The snow was swirling without the cottage, but it was warm within.
5. prep. Not having, containing, characteristic of, etc.
It was a mistake to leave my house without a coat.
6. prep. Not doing or not having done something.
He likes to eat everything without sharing.
He shot without warning anyone.
7. conj. (archaic, otherwise nonstandard) Unless, except (introducing a clause).
adjustment
1. n. The action of adjusting something
2. n. The result of adjusting something; a small change; a minor correction; a modification or alteration
3. n. The settling or balancing of a financial account
The credit card company made an adjustment to my account to waive the late fee.
4. n. The behavioural process of balancing conflicting needs, or needs against obstacles in the environment.
When Jim graduated, he found adjustment to the working world difficult.
5. n. The assessment, by an insurance company, of a claim; the settlement of such a claim
to
1. part. A particle used for marking the following verb as an infinitive.
I want to leave.
He asked me what to do.
I don’t know how to say it.
I have places to go and people to see.
2. part. As above, with the verb implied.
"Did you visit the museum?" "I wanted to, but it was closed.".
If he hasn't read it yet, he ought to.
3. part. A particle used to create phrasal verbs.
I have to do laundry today.
4. prep. Indicating destination: In the direction of, and arriving at.
We are walking to the shop.
5. prep. Used to indicate purpose.
He devoted himself to education.
They drank to his health.
6. prep. Used to indicate result of action.
His face was beaten to a pulp.
7. prep. Used after an adjective to indicate its application.
similar to ..., relevant to ..., pertinent to ..., I was nice to him, he was cruel to her, I am used to walking.
8. prep. (obsolete,) As a.
With God to friend (with God as a friend); with The Devil to fiend (with the Devil as a foe); lambs slaughtered to lake (lambs slaughtered as a sacrifice); t
9. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate a ratio or comparison.
one to one = 1:1
ten to one = 10:1.
I have ten dollars to your four.
10. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate that the preceding term is to be raised to the power of the following value; indicates exponentiation.
Three squared or three to the second power is nine.
Three to the power of two is nine.
Three to the second is nine.
11. prep. Used to indicate the indirect object.
I gave the book to him.
12. prep. (time) Preceding.
ten to ten = 9:50; We're going to leave at ten to (the hour).
13. prep. Used to describe what something consists of or contains.
Anyone could do this job; there's nothing to it.
There's a lot of sense to what he says.
14. prep. (Canada, UK, Newfoundland, West Midlands) At.
Stay where you're to and I'll come find you, b'y.
15. adv. Toward a closed, touching or engaging position.
Please push the door to.
16. adv. (nautical) Into the wind.
17. adv. misspelling of too
remove
1. v. To move something from one place to another, especially to take away.
He removed the marbles from the bag.
2. v. (obsolete, formal) To replace a dish within a course.
3. v. To murder.
4. v. (cricket, transitive) To dismiss a batsman.
5. v. To discard, set aside, especially something abstract (a thought, feeling, etc.).
6. v. (intransitive, now rare) To depart, leave.
7. v. (intransitive) To change one's residence; to move.
8. v. To dismiss or discharge from office.
The President removed many postmasters.
9. n. The act of removing something.
10. n. (archaic) Removing a dish at a meal in order to replace it with the next course, a dish thus replaced, or the replacement.
11. n. (British) (at some public schools) A division of the school, especially the form prior to last
12. n. A step or gradation (as in the phrase "at one remove")
13. n. Distance in time or space; interval.
14. n. (dated) The transfer of one's home or business to another place; a move.
15. n. The act of resetting a horse's shoe.
the
1. art. Definite grammatical article that implies necessarily that an entity it articulates is presupposed; something already mentioned, or completely specified later in that same sentence, or assumed already
I’m reading the book. (Compare I’m reading a book.)
The street in front of your house. (Compare A street in Paris.)
The men and women watched the man give the birdseed to the bird.
2. art. Used before a noun modified by a restrictive relative clause, indicating that the noun refers to a single referent defined by the relative clause.
The street that runs through my hometown.
3. art. Used before an object considered to be unique, or of which there is only one at a time.
No one knows how many galaxies there are in the universe.
God save the Queen!
4. art. Used before a superlative or an ordinal number modifying a noun, to indicate that the noun refers to a single item.
That was the best apple pie ever.
5. art. Added to a superlative or an ordinal number to make it into a substantive.
That apple pie was the best.
6. art. Introducing a singular term to be taken generically: preceding a name of something standing for a whole class.
7. art. Used before an adjective, indicating all things (especially persons) described by that adjective.
Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
8. art. Used to indicate a certain example of (a noun) which is usually of most concern or most common or familiar.
No one in the whole country had seen it before.
I don't think I'll get to it until the morning.
9. art. Used before a body part (especially of someone previously mentioned), as an alternative to a possessive pronoun.
A stone hit him on the head. (= “A stone hit him on his head.”)
10. art. When stressed, indicates that it describes an object which is considered to be best or exclusively worthy of attention.
That is the hospital to go to for heart surgery.
11. adv. 1=With a comparative ormore and a verb phrase, establishes a parallel with one or more other such comparatives.
The hotter the better.
The more I think about it, the weaker it looks.
The more money donated, the more books purchased, and the more happy children.
It looks weaker and weaker, the more I think about it.
12. adv. 1=With a comparative, and often withfor it, indicates a result more like said comparative. This can be negated withnone.
It was a difficult time, but I’m the wiser for it.
It was a difficult time, and I’m none the wiser for it.
I'm much the wiser for having had a difficult time like that.
effects
1. n. plural of effect
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of effect
effect
1. n. The result or outcome of a cause. See usage notes below.
The effect of the hurricane was a devastated landscape.
2. n. Impression left on the mind; sensation produced.
3. n. Execution; performance; realization; operation.
4. n. The state of being binding and enforceable, as in a rule, policy, or law.
The new law will come into effect on the first day of next year.
5. n. (filmology) An illusion produced by technical means (as in "special effect")
The effect of flying was most convincing.
6. n. (sound engineering) An alteration, or device for producing an alteration, in sound after it has been produced by an instrument.
I use an echo effect here to make the sound more mysterious.
I just bought a couple of great effects.
7. n. (physics, psychology, etc.) A scientific phenomenon, usually named after its discoverer.
Doppler effect
8. n. (usually plural) Belongings, usually as personal effects.
9. n. Consequence intended; purpose; meaning; general intent; with to.
10. n. (obsolete) Reality; actual meaning; fact, as distinguished from mere appearance.
11. n. (obsolete) Manifestation; expression; sign.
12. v. To make or bring about; to implement.
The best way to effect change is to work with existing stakeholders.
13. v. misspelling of affect
of
1. prep. Expressing distance or motion.
2. prep. (now obsolete, or dialectal) From (of distance, direction), "off".
3. prep. (obsolete except in phrases) Since, from (a given time, earlier state etc.).
4. prep. From, away from (a position, number, distance etc.).
There are no shops within twenty miles of the cottage.
5. prep. (North America, Scotland, Ireland) Before (the hour); to.
What's the time? / Nearly a quarter of three.
6. prep. Expressing separation.
7. prep. (Indicating removal, absence or separation, with the action indicated by a transitive verb and the quality or substance by a grammatical object.)
Finally she was relieved of the burden of caring for her sick husband.
8. prep. (Indicating removal, absence or separation, with resulting state indicated by an adjective.)
He seemed devoid of human feelings.
9. prep. (obsolete) (Indicating removal, absence or separation, construed with an intransitive verb.)
10. prep. Expressing origin.
11. prep. (Indicating an ancestral source or origin of descent.)
The word is believed to be of Japanese origin.
12. prep. (Indicating a (non-physical) source of action or emotion; introducing a cause, instigation); from, out of, as an expression of.
The invention was born of necessity.
13. prep. (following an intransitive verb) (Indicates the source or cause of the verb.)
It is said that she died of a broken heart.
14. prep. (following an adjective) (Indicates the subject or cause of the adjective.)
I am tired of all this nonsense.
15. prep. Expressing agency.
16. prep. (following a passive verb) (Indicates the agent (for most verbs, now usually expressed with by).)
I am not particularly enamoured of this idea.
17. prep. (Used to introduce the "subjective genitive"; following a noun to form the head of a postmodifying noun phrase) (see also 'Possession' senses below).
The contract can be terminated at any time with the agreement of both parties.
18. prep. (following an adjective) (Used to indicate the agent of something described by the adjective.)
It was very brave of you to speak out like that.
19. prep. Expressing composition, substance.
20. prep. (after a verb expressing construction, making etc.) (Used to indicate the material or substance used.)
Many 'corks' are now actually made of plastic.
21. prep. (directly following a noun) (Used to indicate the material of the just-mentioned object.)
She wore a dress of silk.
22. prep. (Indicating the composition of a given collective or quantitative noun.)
What a lot of nonsense!
23. prep. (Used to link a given class of things with a specific example of that class.)
Welcome to the historic town of Harwich.
24. prep. (Links two nouns in near-apposition, with the first qualifying the second); "which is also".
I'm not driving this wreck of a car.
25. prep. Introducing subject matter.
26. prep. (Links an intransitive verb, or a transitive verb and its subject (especially verbs to do with thinking, feeling, expressing etc.), with its subject-ma
I'm always thinking of you.
27. prep. (following a noun (now chiefly nouns of knowledge, communication etc.)) (Introduces its subject matter); about, concerning.
He told us the story of his journey to India.
28. prep. (following an adjective) (Introduces its subject matter.)
This behaviour is typical of teenagers.
29. prep. Having partitive effect.
30. prep. (following a number or other quantitive word) (Introduces the whole for which is indicated only the specified part or segment); "from among".
Most of these apples are rotten.
31. prep. (following a noun) (Indicates a given part.)
32. prep. (now archaic, literary, with preceding partitive word assumed, or as a predicate after to be) Some, an amount of, one of.
On the whole, they seem to be of the decent sort.
33. prep. (Links to a genitive noun or possessive pronoun, with partitive effect (though now often merged with possessive senses, below).)
He is a friend of mine.
34. prep. Expressing possession.
35. prep. Belonging to, existing in, or taking place in a given location, place or time. Compare "origin" senses, above.
He was perhaps the most famous scientist of the twentieth century.
36. prep. Belonging to (a place) through having title, ownership or control over it.
The owner of the nightclub was arrested.
37. prep. Belonging to (someone or something) as something they possess or have as a characteristic; (the "possessive genitive". (With abstract nouns, this inter
Keep the handle of the saucepan away from the flames.
38. prep. Forming the "objective genitive".
39. prep. (Follows an agent noun, verbal noun or noun of action.)
She had a profound distrust of the police.
40. prep. Expressing qualities or characteristics.
41. prep. (now archaic, or literary) (Links an adjective with a noun or noun phrase to form a quasi-adverbial qualifier); in respect to, as regards.
My companion seemed affable and easy of manner.
42. prep. (Indicates a quality or characteristic); "characterized by".
Pooh was said to be a bear of very little brain.
43. prep. (Indicates quantity, age, price, etc.)
We have been paying interest at a rate of 10%.
44. prep. (US, informal considered incorrect by some) (Used to link singular indefinite nouns (preceded by the indefinite article) and attributive adjectives mod
It's not that big of a deal.
45. prep. Expressing a point in time.
46. prep. (chiefly regional) During the course of (a set period of time, day of the week etc.), now specifically with implied repetition or regularity.
Of an evening, we would often go for a stroll along the river.
47. prep. (UK dialectal, chiefly in negative constructions) For (a given length of time).
I've not tekken her out of a goodly long while.
48. prep. (after a noun) (Indicates duration of a state, activity etc.)
After a delay of three hours, the plane finally took off.
inflation
1. n. An act, instance of, or state of expansion or increase in size, especially by injection of a gas.
The inflation of the balloon took five hours.
2. n. (economics) An increase in the general level of prices or in the cost of living.
3. n. (economics) A decline in the value of money.
4. n. (economics) An increase in the quantity of money, leading to a devaluation of existing money.
5. n. Undue expansion or increase, as of academic grades.
6. n. (cosmology) An extremely rapid expansion of the universe, theorised to have occurred very shortly after the big bang.
contrasted
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of contrast
2. adj. Set in contrast (of two or more things).
3. adj. Displaying or marked by contrast; contrasty.
contrast
1. n. A difference in lightness, brightness and/or hue between two colours that makes them more or less distinguishable.
2. n. The degree of this difference.
The red and the orange don't have much contrast between them — I can hardly tell them apart.
3. n. A control on a television, etc, that adjusts the amount of contrast in the images being displayed.
4. n. A difference between two objects, people or concepts.
Israel is a country of many contrasts.
5. n. (rhetoric) Antithesis.
6. v. To set in opposition in order to show the difference or differences between.
7. v. (intransitive) To form a contrast.
Foreground and background strongly contrast.
with
1. prep. Against.
He picked a fight with the class bully.
2. prep. In the company of; alongside, close to; near to.
He went with his friends.
3. prep. In addition to; as an accessory to.
She owns a motorcycle with a sidecar.
4. prep. Used to indicate simultaneous happening, or immediate succession or consequence.
5. prep. In support of.
We are with you all the way.
6. prep. (obsolete) To denote the accomplishment of cause, means, instrument, etc; – sometimes equivalent to by.
slain with robbers
7. prep. Using as an instrument; by means of.
cut with a knife
8. prep. (obsolete) Using as nourishment; more recently replaced by on.
9. prep. Having, owning.
10. adv. Along, together with others, in a group, etc.
Do you want to come with?
11. adv. -->
12. n. alternative form of withe
real
1. adj. True, genuine, not merely nominal or apparent.
2. adj. Genuine, not artificial, counterfeit, or fake.
This is real leather.
3. adj. Genuine, unfeigned, sincere.
These are real tears!
4. adj. Actually being, existing, or occurring; not fictitious or imaginary.
a description of real life
5. adj. That has objective, physical existence.
No one has ever seen a real unicorn.
6. adj. (economics) Having been adjusted to remove the effects of inflation; measured in purchasing power (contrast nominal).
My dad calculated my family's real consumption per month.
What is the real GNP of this polity?
7. adj. (economics) Relating to the result of the actions of rational agents; relating to neoclassical economic models as opposed to Keynesian models.
8. adj. (mathematics, of a number) Being either a rational number, or the limit of a convergent infinite sequence of rational numbers: being one of a set of numbers with a one-to-one correspondence to the poi
9. adj. (legal) Relating to immovable tangible property.
real estate; real property
10. adj. Absolute, complete, utter.
This is a real problem.
11. adj. (slang) Signifying meritorious qualities or actions especially as regard the enjoyment of life, prowess at sports, or success wooing potential partners.
I'm keeping it real.
12. adv. (US, colloquial) Really, very.
13. n. A commodity; see realty.
14. n. (grammar) One of the three genders that the common gender can be separated into in the Scandinavian languages.
15. n. (mathematics) A real number.
16. n. (obsolete) A realist.
17. n. Former unit of currency of Spain and Spain's colonies.
18. n. A coin worth one real.
19. n. A unit of currency used in Portugal and its colonies from 1430 until 1911, and in Brazil from 1790 until 1942
20. n. A coin worth one real.

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