oxford dictionary of idioms 3rd edition

... a number of sources on the publication of the hardback edition of this book One corres­ pondent even devoted much of Christmas Day to the task! On the publication of the paperback edition, we ... Plenty more have had to be excluded because of pressures of time and space, but we hope that what remains is a satisfying cross-section of the vast range of idioms which occur in everyday English, ... sources and to provide a point of extended reference It is by no means complete: it contains some of the books we have referred to which are collections of idioms of one type or another To have

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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; ... 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 ... process of migration withone phase of migration linked to subse-quent phases of migration A major ex-ample is when the first cohort of migrantsinduces subsequent flows of migrants con-sisting of their

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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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... externaleconomyofscale(D0) Areductioninthe AVERAGECOSTSofafirm asaresultoftheexpansionofthewhole industryofwhichitispart.Amajor exampleoftheseeconomiesoccursinthe caseofthetrainingoflabour:thegeneral ... recording of the business transactions of a firm in a manner ordered by the legislation of the country of domicile of that firm The main elements of it are the construction of a balance ... Amanager’sweightedpreferencefora particulartypeofcost.Asmanagersoften preferanexpansionofstaff(asameansof beinginchargeofalargerestablishment), theywillpreferextraexpenditureonstaff tootherformsofexpenditure. expenseratio(M2)seecostratio

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... 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 ... inventory (M2) The stocks of goods held by a firm for the purposes of production or final... comparison of the prices of goods of different countries, or of unit labour costs, expressed ... school of thought,... of their implicit nature Employers make such tacit agreements as part of their pursuit of long-term profitability This concept was inspired by OKUN’s study of STAGFLATION

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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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... and profits fall with the consequence that the rate of growth of internal funds based on profits is less than the rate of growth of borrowing References... finance as a result of operating ... maintains the register of permitted restric- tive trade practices. 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 ... interest for it in terms of itself, e.g a wheat rate of interest, a steel rate of interest A steel rate of interest of 10 per cent means that 110 tonnes of steel in a year’s time

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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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... in an economy. supernormal profit (D0) Profits in excess of NORMAL PROFIT. This can occur under PERFECTCOMPETITION in the short run but is often a permanent feature of many MONOPOLISTIC and OLIGOPOLISTIC ... that more of one means less of another Trade-offs occur in many parts of both microeconomics and macroeconomics, e.g the trade-off between work and leisure, between consumption of one good ... of Statistics He was Director of the Netherlands Central Planning Bureau from 194 5 to 195 5, Professor of Development Planning at... of INDIRECT TAXATION is necessary if the goal of

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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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... Cambridge International Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs PB 0 521 56558 8 HB 0 521 56299 6 Trang 3Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms Common idioms 1 Some of the most common idioms in English are ... Trang 1INTERNATIONAL DICTIONARY of IDIOMS Photocopiable Worksheets CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL DICTIONARY of IDIOMS Trang 2About these worksheetsThese exercises and ... began 5 She’ll never give up the theatre It’s her Idioms from other idioms 14 The dictionary entries for all of the idioms below also show other idioms which are formed from them Verbs may be turned

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... Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms CHRIS BALDICK OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS OXFORD PAPERBACK REFERENCE The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms Chris Baldick is Professor of English ... Writers' Dictionary Zoology *forthcoming The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms CHRIS BALDICK OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Great Clarendon Street, Oxford ox2 6DP Oxford ... Second Edition viii used, closely based on the system devised by Joyce M Hawkins for the Oxford Paperback Dictionary, offers a basic but sufficient indication of the essential features of stress-placing

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... 1 a.income of a customer over the course of his or her entire relationship with a company 2 b.income of a customer over the course of his or her entire lifetime 3 c.profitability of a customer ... overproduction 4 d.the lack of product variety Trang 17101 Free Test Bank for Essentials of Marketing 3rd Edition by Lascu Mutiple Choice Questions - Page 3 Communication in the form of advertising, personal ... execution of the production, pricing, promotion, and distribution of a product 4 d.all of the actual and potential consumers of a company’s products Customer relationship management does all of the

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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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... the sense of excitement of discovery that Gyorgy and colleagues experienced when they began tounravel the mystery of vitamin B complex Some of the major highlights of the earlyyears of vitamin ... growth, after a state of deficiency has been created The third type ofstudy is the examination of blood levels of the nutrient or a metabolite of the nutrientover a specified period of time after a ... radio-enzymatic technique (38) The advantage of this type of procedure is that it allows foranalyses of a large number of samples in one assay Determination of vitamin B6in foods and biological samples

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... guarantee of profitability (A) True (B) False Answer : (B) Unethical behavior is not necessarily illegal behavior (A) True (B) False Answer : (A) A lack of business ethics can result in a lack of business ... (A) 17 The "front page of the newspaper test" is an application of whether conduct gives the appearance of impropriety (A) True (B) False Answer : (A) 18 The first question of the Blanchard/Peale ... culture (D) is an example of Christian consequentialism Answer : (C) 79 Which of the following is not necessarily a benefit of using ethics as a business strategy? (A) Firm's profits increase (B) Affords

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... number of an element determined? A the number of neutrons plus the number of electrons B the number of electrons only C the number of protons plus the number of neutrons D the number of protons ... All atoms of an element have the same number of protons The mass number is the sum of the number of protons and the number of neutrons The charge atom is determined by the number of electrons ... drinks high levels of radioactive Iodine-131, then has a PET scan C Injection of low levels of radioactive glucose, then patient has a PET scan. D Injection of low levels of radioactive Thallium-201,

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... mathematical indicator of A the concentration of H+ present in a solution B the concentration of OH- present in a solution C the total amount of all ions in a solution D the ability of a solution ... to determine the age of biological specimens E They are used to trace the path of materials throughout the body 39 The number of neutrons in the nucleus of an average atom of an element is best ... number of electrons and protons together B subtracting the number of electrons from the number of protons C adding the mass number to the number of electrons D subtracting the number of protons

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... which indicates that the product contains 22% of the DV of calcium, 2% of the DV of Vitamin C and 30% of the DV from fat Based on this information which of the following statements is correct? A) ... who generally prepares most of the meals for her household Even though she always prepares meals that offer enough Calories and nutrients for her family of four, she often tends to make the same ... beneficial to your GI tract, but consuming excess amounts of fiber can result in the loss of nutrients This statement is an example of which of the factors to consider in planning diets? A) adequacy

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