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... disapprove of his thinking’s way. 8 In Sam’s expert opinion, the operas of Puccini are the best around 9 The queen lost it in the attic of the castle’s 10 The sword of the bodyguard of the queen ... as a subject—the doer of the action or the experiencer of the state—then the form 1.pl takes is we; if 1.pl.’s func-tion is that of object—the recipient or “patient” of the acfunc-tion—then ... feminine, each English sentence does so only once—with Trang 2the predicate’s head noun For English, its pronoun system (see fig 5d) does a much better job of showing how considerations of natural

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... get off? 5 Was she able to answer the question? Emphasis and Emphatic Structures English achieves emphasis in a variety of ways One way is by applying peak stress—the most salient degree of ... not a dummy verb. There is yet another way that English can emphasize the action of the verb: by avoiding a contraction and then peak stressing one of the two noncontracted elements—the verb form ... O N T R A C T I O N S Many of the nonmodal auxiliaries also form contractions in a variety of verb tenses They do so by attaching their contracted forms to the end of nouns and pronouns whether

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... also to offer the curious reader interesting facts about the origins of phrases and examples of their use This second edition of the Oxford Dictionary of Idioms is based on the first edition, ... Britain Trang 9Contents Preface vii Dictionary of Idioms 1 Index 323 Trang 11Preface The aim of the Oxford Dictionary of Idioms is to provide clear definitions of phrases and sayings for those ... Trang 5The Oxford Dictionary of Idioms Trang 7Idioms Edited by Judith Siefring OXPORD Trang 8OXFORD U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S Great Clarendon Street, Oxford 0x2 6DP Oxford University

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... Trang 1Dictionary of English Idioms & Idiomatic Expressions Dictionary of English Idioms & Idiomatic Expressions 1 ~ A ~ 1 ~ B ... different from the dictionary definitions of the individual words, which can make them hard for ESL students and learners to understand Here, we have a dictionary of 1059 English idiomatic expressions ... grin like a Cheshire cat Hair of the dog If someone has a hair of the dog, they have an alcoholic drink as a way of getting rid of a hangover, the unpleasant effects of having drunk too much alcohol

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... 1Routledge Dictionaryof Economics Second edition The most informative dictionary of economics available, the Routledge Dictionary ofEconomics avoids the tendency to indulge in long-winded definitions of ... interpretation of economics in the broad sense makes adictionary of this kind more of a dictionary for economists, rather than adictionary of economics with terms peculiar to the subject Even if a dictionary ... that this Routledge Dictionary ofEconomics is all of these Trang 7Preface to the second editionTen years have elapsed since the first edition of this Dictionary The vocabulary ofeconomics in the

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... Department of Labor, he wasassistant professor of economics at YaleUniversity (1954–62) before becomingProfessor of the Economics of Education at the University of London Institute ofEducation; ... survey of the ownership, extent and value of land usually undertaken for taxa-tion purposes Cadbury code of corporate governance (G3) The recommendations of the Committee on the Financial Aspects of ... relativescarcity of factors of production Instead of relative prices, changes in the quantity of capital lead to capital reversing Alsoknown as reverse capital deepening be-cause a lower rate of profit can

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... the lack of co-operation between divisions divestment (L1) The disposal of part of the assets of a firm; the opposite of aMERGER An apprai-sal of the activities of a diversified firm often results ... financing of an unprofitable part of an enterprise by a more profitable part Apublic enterprise, instead of following the Trang 5rule of attributing costs properly to eachdivision to make each part of ... appli-cation of increasing amounts of labour to a fixed amount of land with the conse-quence that the MARGINAL PRODUCT of la-bour declined This view of agricultural production was central to much of CLASSI-CAL

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... economy of scale (D0) A reduction in theAVERAGE COSTSof a firm as a result of the expansion of the wholeindustry of which it is part A majorexample of these economies occurs in thecase of the ... committee consists of seven of the board’s governors plus five of the presidents of the regional Federal Reserve Banks, one of whom is always the Pre-sident of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York It ... (M4)The recording of the business transactions of a firm in a manner ordered by thelegislation of the country of domicile ofthat firm The main elements of it are theconstruction of a balance sheet

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... analysis ofANTITRUSTbut now includes the examination of all the func-tions of management A major aspect of the subject is the study of market tures and an examination of the implica-tions of those ... basic income/flat tax propo-sal, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press income terms of trade (F1) A measure of the purchasing power of exports in terms of imports The formula used for calculating ... exchange of agricultural products for machines Trade of this kind occurs most often between ECONOMIES at different stages of development, especially between countries of theFIRSTandTHIRD WORLDS

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... Oxford University Press marginal rate of transformation (D2)The reduction in the amount of output ofgood X as a consequence of an additionalunit of a related good Y being produced;the slope of ... therate of profit and labour as a basis ofvalue, he was able to form them into apowerful new synthesis This consisted oftheTURGOT–SMITHstages theory, an analysis of the circulation of money and of ... one part of a market from another market share (L1, M3) The proportion of the sales of an industry sold by a particular firm or group of firms This share is the basis of the concept of an AGGREGATE

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... Exchange N-firm concentration ratio (L1) The ratio of the sales of a group of firms of an industry to the sales of that industry as a whole The number of firms most commonly chosen for industrial censuses ... Press of America.Holtman, A.G (1988) ‘Theories of non-profit institutions’, Journal of EconomicSurveys 2: 30–45 Rose-Ackerman, S (ed.) (1986) The Profit Sector: Economic Theory andPublic Policy, Oxford: ... Itmaintains the register of permitted restric-tive trade practices admin-Office of Management and Budget (H1) An office of the US president set up in 1970 in succession to the Bureau of the Budget(founded

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... rates ofreturn of HUMAN CAPITAL and of majorpublic investments are often calculated An alternative measure is the INTERNAL RATE OF RETURN which takes into accountthe timing of earnings rate of return ... Essay on the Influence of a Low Price of Corn on the Profits of Stock, his first attempt to create a model of the economy using the DIFFERENTIAL THEORY OF RENT, the law ofDIMINISHING RETURNSand ... ‘Relational wealth and the quality of life’, Journal of Socio-economics 29: 305–40 relative concentration (L1) A measure of the distribution of economic activity, or of values of an economic variable,

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... changes in an economy supernormal profit (D0) Profits in excess ofNORMAL PROFIT This can occur underPERFECT COMPETITIONin the short run but is often a permanent feature of manyMONOPOLISTICandOLIGOPOLISTICfirms ... the merging of two or more organizations together.The new larger structure is more effectivethan the sum of the two previous firms,particularly because of a variety of types of ECONOMY OF SCALE ... society ofanother hour of work in the case ofpersonal income taxes 3 The difference between gross and net,after tax, rates of return in the case ofinvestors 4 The difference between the total cost ofemploying

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... level of output, neither expanding nor contracting as any spending of entre-preneurs’ profits leads to an equal creation of other profits elsewhere in the economy 2 The money-creating process of ... workablecompetition are its level of profits relative to normal profits, its costs relative to those of the most efficient scale, the extent of itsproduct variation and selling costs and itsrate of technical progress ... significance of the debts hasoften been measured by the ratios of debt to gross national product or of debt toservice, but it has been asserted that abetter measure is the comparison of therate of growth

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... ConciseOxford Dictionary of Literary Terms CHRIS BALDICK OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Trang 2OXFORD PAPERBACK REFERENCEThe Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms Chris Baldick is Professor of English ... Terms Engineering* Saints English Etymology Science English Folklore* Scientists English Grammar Shakespeare English Language Ships and the Sea English Literature Sociology English Place-Names Statistics* ... and Queens of World Mythology Britain* World Religions King's English Writers' Dictionary Law Zoology Linguistics Literary Quotations *forthcoming Trang 4The ConciseOxford Dictionary of Literary

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... of material of a group of samples lected by a single operation of a sampling device from parts of a lot that are separated col-in time or space {iŋ⭈krə⭈mənt } incubation [CHEM] Maintenance of ... CHEM] The effect of difference of mass between isotopes of thesame element on nonnuclear physical and chemical properties, such as the rate ofreaction or position of equilibrium, of chemical reactions ... equivalent conductance of an electrolyte in the limit of infinite dilution,regardless of the presence of other ions 2.The law that the equivalent conductance of a very dilute solution of a strong electrolyte

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... for most of the chapters, and links to useful websites for learning more about statistics Perhaps best of all, I fixed all of the mistakes that were in the last edition of the book Of course, ... sincere thanks to the reviewers of this third edition of the book: Gregg Bell, University of Alabama, Catherine A Trang 13xii    ■    PrefaceRoster, University of New Mexico, and one anonymous ... and I followed most of yours, to the benefit of the readers I always rely on the help of several students when producing the vari-ous editions of this book, and for this edition I was assisted

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... which the product of the graphotactics of a language is transparent orthography the spelling system of a language palate roof of the mouth (oral cavity) paraphrase a restatement of a text or passage ... representation of a minimal unit of meaning morphology analysis of the form and the function of the morphemes of a given language morphosyntactically viewed, analyzed, and categorized from the standpoint of ... syntax or in the nature of its constituent elements standard spoken English English as spoken by the most prestigious speakers of the speech community standard written English English as written...

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... consists of two clauses or more, each of which can break off into a separate independent clause that can constitute an independent sentence. Here are some examples of compound sentences and of the ... prescriptive English disapproves of the use of him in (117), colloquial English permits it and its use is quite widespread. Thus native speakers regularly produce both versions of our sentence ... sentences all but one of whose clauses delete the verb. Sentence (11) offered another example of that.] Linking two clauses only (but/yet/for): [25] Mary loves falafel but hates tofu. [26] *Mary...

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