Definitions
Etymologies
- down- + turn (Wiktionary)
Examples
“NPD results for the last month, when they arrive, should be pretty telling; until now, we've only been able to speculate on whether the downturn is affecting game buying, but most analysts have said that the next round of NPD should show for sure.”
“Another trend of the economic downturn, is that families in our neighborhood with young children are unable to carry out their plans to move to larger homes with more private yard space, because of the slump in the housing market.”
“An economic downturn is 60-70% perception mostly uncertainty.”
“They claim that the economic downturn is hitting the porn business and that federal assistance is needed to boost the nation's sex drive.”
“The economic downturn is causing difficult budget problems for families, schools, businesses, governments and other organizations.”
“Google CEO Eric Schmidt, meeting with journalists in New York today, said that the economic downturn is ending.”
“ISTANBUL — Turkey's rapid recovery from the global downturn is giving a new boost to the government's plan to turn Istanbul into an international financial center to rival Dubai or eventually even London, according to Ali Babacan, deputy prime minister for the economy.”
“Of course, the economic downturn is probably at least partly responsible for pushing online ad spend ahead of television spend now, but the long-term trend has been evident for some time (advertisers recognising that people are accessing more and more online content).”
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“The last thing any family or individual needs during an economic downturn is an unplanned pregnancy, for all of the many reasons that EU Expat set forth.”
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EU Buzz - ALL words and expressions
A combined list of
1. EU Buzz - single words
2. EU Buzz - collocations
3. EU Buzz - the 100 most active
collocation constituentsabsorption capacity, absorption rate, acceding country, accession candidate, accession countries, accession country, accession criteria, accession cycle, accession negotia..., accession partner..., accession priorities, accession treaty and 2650 more...
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WF - nominal compounds (figurative)
An extensive list I have been working on for quite some time. Feel free to add more of the kind if you miss any.
brainstorming, upside, downside, goldplating, bikeshedding, mudslinging, downgrading, headhunter, streamlining, mainstreaming, gerrymandering, frontloading and 503 more...
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EU Buzz - single words (1+2+3)
1. Strictly EU terms with special European meaning used only in the EU
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2. Keywords central to the understanding of the EU (people working for the EU are usually able to give thematic...acceleration, action, additionality, administrator, agenda, agricultural, agri-environmental, agriflation, agri-food, applicant, approach, assent and 1325 more...
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Junk
walrus, fascination, broadway, fickle, downturn, bridge, gargle, rotunda, mesh, fab, shortlife, strumming and 304 more...
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hard to sense
somewhat, somewhere, elsewhere, whereby, likewise, spite, ever, along, otherwise, whatever, whichever, hitherto and 116 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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Reversible words
turnover, overturn, overtake, takeover, wayside, sideway, windup, upwind, takeout, outtake, upend, end up and 41 more...
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Cultural Caca
Sometimes misleading, often peculiar and technical.
slimming, caca, sku, bogo, prenup, complimentary, sweetener, keeper, painterly, semiautobiographical, hack-a-shaq, upside and 35 more...
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