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He has no respect for authority whatsoever.

He was remanded on theft charges. The accused was remanded in custody (= kept in prison before the trial began) for a week.

after you have been accused of committing a crime to go to a particular place, usually your home, to wait until the trial begins, after paying an amount of money to the court that will not be given back if you do not appear at the trial

The court awarded/granted/gave custody of the child to the father.

The suspect is now in custody. UK You will be remanded in custody until your trial.

Investment advisers with actual custody of clients' funds pose a higher risk to clients.

Before replying I will retrieve my contract from safe custody and check it myself. The annual safe custody cost would amount to €44.

We taught our dog to retrieve a ball. They've managed to retrieve most of the data. Did they manage to retrieve anything from the fire?; Important historic documents were retrieved from a dumpster last week.

Goodwill that is lost is extremely difficult to retrieve.

The school has to rely on the goodwill of the parents to help it raise money. Releasing the hostages has been seen as a gesture of goodwill/a goodwill gesture.

The company's assets are worth £200 million, plus goodwill.

My aunt gave me some towels, and I gave them to the Goodwill.

: a US-based organization that collects old clothes and other unwanted things and sells them at low prices in special shops. The money is used to provide jobs, training, and services for people who are poor and cannot find work:

We hope the negotiations will take place in an atmosphere of openness and goodwill.

Although the insurance firm refused to pay her claim, they did offer her a goodwill payment of £5,000.

a payment made by someone buying a business for things that cannot be directly measured, for example, customers' loyalty

Ex gratia payments were made to all those who had been affected by the spillage.; The bank did pay me £100 ex-gratia.

oil spillages

There's been a lot of hype around/surrounding his latest film.

No sports event is more hyped than the Super Bowl.

People wondered aloud whether the company had been overhyped.

I always feel hyped up before an exam.

I can't see what all this ballyhoo is about.

a bally stupid idea I bally well hope he finds the money he owes me.

a game of hoopla

The usual hoopla surrounded the arrival of the pop star.

He's been working as a policeman on the same patch for 20 years.

I'll have to sew a patch onto these jeans - they're ripped at the knee.

They issued an update to patch the bug. We need to identify and patch vulnerabilities in internet security.

a skirt with two patch pockets

The couple are working on patching up their differences.

also - to repair something, especially in a simple and temporary way

There is a marked cleavage between the parties about the government's defence policy.

Forgetting the president's name was a bit of a boob.; He boobed rather badly by getting her name wrong.

So do you think she's had a boob job?

Oops, I think I made a boo-boo there - I hope she's not too upset.; I did a boo-boo! I spilled coffee!

You didn't say boo to me about going to your mother's this weekend.

This resort is considered by those who are in the know to have the best downhill skiing in Europe.; Ask Keith – he’s always in the know about upcoming projects.

A long row of market stalls was filled with every kind of food you could imagine.

There was one bathroom with a shower stall in the corner.

My car stalled at the traffic light.

"I have to look it up on my machine at home," he said stalling for time.

If you stall a person, you delay them or prevent them from doing something for a period of time: - I managed to stall him for a few days until I'd got enough money to pay back the loan.

Japan's economic growth has stalled.

People at the back started booing loudly. Her singing was so bad that she was booed off the stage.

You will always be my boo.

She jumped out of the cupboard and shouted "Boo!"

The bodyguard was killed while checking the president's car for booby traps. a booby-trap bomb They put a bucket of water on top of his door as a booby trap.

verb - to hide something dangerous, especially a bomb, inside somewhere that looks safe - The police discovered that the car was booby-trapped.; Computer viruses can be spread in booby-trapped e-mail attachments.

He treats me like a skivvy.

I'm not going to skivvy for you any more.

Why did you do that, you stupid great tit?

I noticed she didn't send me a card - I think it was tit for tat because I forgot her birthday last year.

Like most souvenir shops, it sells a lot of old tat.

Stop it, Joe, you're really getting on my tits.

She has a huge arse.

I don't want some smart-arse from the city telling me how to manage my farm.

Tell him to get off his arse and do some work for once. If she doesn't get her arse in gear, she's going to be late.

I fell off my bike and went arse over tit.

"She said she had food poisoning." "Food poisoning, my arse! She just drank too much last night."

I wish he'd stop arsing around and actually do some work.

His new trousers ripped when he bent down. I ripped my shirt on a nail.

noun - a tear in a piece of cloth or paper - Your sleeve has a rip in it.

We ripped up the carpets and laid a new wooden floor.

How do I rip a DVD movie to my hard drive?

noun - a copy of a CD or DVD that you make on a computer - illegal rips of copyrighted music

A hurricane ripped through Rhode Island yesterday.

He is in the gym every day trying to get a ripped body. Pilates will get your abs looking ripped.

He was so ripped, it hit him like a punch to the face.

$300 for that shirt? - That's a complete rip-off. Loan protection is the biggest rip-off in banking today. rip-off prices

an act of cheating someone by charging too much or not giving anything of value for money spent

All along the road there were market stalls selling rip-off Versace, Gucci and Lacoste.

Bob's tickets cost much less than ours - I think we've been ripped off.

I nearly flipped out when she told me she and David were getting married.

Low interest rates are making loan repayments easier to manage.; keep up/meet repayments - If you think you cannot meet repayments, talk first to your lender.

verb - the act of paying back money that you have borrowed:

an endowment for sth: The Las Vegas millionaire pledged $10 million for the project and an endowment for the school.; We are trying to set up an endowment to support the library.

There are tests that can establish a baby's genetic endowment.

Some traders may be eligible for a repayment supplement under the new legislation.

The player was fined $5,000 for flipping off fans who had booed him.

She'll flip her lid if I'm late again.

The salesman wrote down the figures on a flip chart.

They did a complete flip-flop by deciding to have a large wedding rather than getting married secretly.

verb - to change a plan completely

It is illegal to do/make a U-turn on a motorway.

The prime minister did/made a quick U-turn in response to all the adverse publicity.

The match has been cancelled because of adverse weather conditions. They received a lot of adverse publicity/criticism about the changes.

adversely - adverb

The accounts showed an adverse balance caused by lack of orders.

Before expressing a qualified opinion an auditor should always try to resolve problems with the management of the organization concerned.

(= someone whose job is to officially examine accounts) that the information in a company's accounts is generally correct but is limited in some way, for example because the information is not shown in a way that the auditor agrees with:

She hopes to qualify (as a lawyer) at the end of the year.; This course qualifies you to teach in any secondary school.

She doesn't qualify for maternity leave because she hasn't been in her job long enough.

Nigeria was the first team to qualify for the World Cup.

I'd like to qualify my criticisms of the school's failings, by adding that it's a very happy place.

In the sentence "He walked quickly along the road", "quickly" and "along the road" qualify "walked".

Being prequalified means a lender tells you how much you can afford but doesn't commit to a loan.

More than 100 companies pre-qualified to bid for the eight British Rail train operating companies.

I'd only gone a little way down the street when I remembered I hadn't locked the door, so I made/did a quick about-turn.

This is the government's second about-turn on the issue.

In 1986 he made a very public and dramatic political volte-face from Left to Right.

a collegiate theatre collegiate sports

Oxford and Cambridge are both collegiate universities.

He was sitting upright in his hospital bed, propped up by pillows. There were the usual bunch of drinkers propped up at (= leaning against) the bar.

How long is the government likely to survive without the US military force there to prop it up?

The US Federal Reserve adjusted interest rates in January in an attempt to prop up the economy.; prop up the dollar/pound/yen, etc.: Should the Central Bank intervene to prop up the ailing euro, or wait for a natural recovery?

The government seems to have no understanding of what ails the country.

I don’t know what’s ailing her.

the country's ailing economy Ted asked me if I could help him fix his ailing car.

He's visiting his ailing father.

ailing company/economy/industry: The ailing company shut down two of its smaller plants in an attempt to trim costs.

Their strategy is to focus on software and services for vertical markets.

The vertical structures of the past are less popular now that decision-making and innovation are encouraged at all operating levels. If there are more than five levels of management, the organization is said to be high in vertical differentiation.

vertical farming - NOUN - the business or activity of growing crops in tall buildings in cities:

Another striking feature is a high vertical garden with forest-like foliage that covers an outside wall.

Vertical loading gives employees responsibilities and control formerly reserved for higher level positions.

a vertical-loading CD/DVD player

Mobile phone companies are becoming more powerful through vertical integration.

ALSO - the degree to which a company carries out the different stages in an industrial or commercial process, rather than depending on outside suppliers and customers

Vertical analysis reports each amount on a financial statement as a percentage of another item.

The strategy of vertical disintegration can be used to restore competitive advantage as specialized suppliers are better placed to respond to market needs.

Career progression of women and men in the higher education sector confirms a pattern of vertical segregation.

Horizontal segregation arises when men and women do different types of work: heavy manual labour is usually done by men, for example.

lean hamburger meat

lean and fit

It has been a particularly lean year for the education department.

The conductor leaned over us and asked for our tickets.; She paused for a moment to rest and leaned against a large rock.; He leaned his bike against the wall.

When you say that a company or business is lean, you mean that it has the fewest employees it needs to do its work.

Companies are downsizing, aiming to be leaner and more efficient, with demands on employees for greater productivity.

NOUN - Leanness means eliminating all waste, including time, and ensuring a smooth and predictable output.

a house with a lean-to garage

The company is driven by technological advances and a lean-and-mean mentality.

The factory has adopted a lean manufacturing programme to weed out waste in its production processes.

They had leaned on the dictionary as the authority that answered all their questions.

He said he was leaning toward entering the race for governor.

He's got that lean and hungry look.

We may have to lean on them a little if we want our money.

He leaned against the wall. She leaned her head on his shoulder.

I don't know what his political leanings are.

the sexual proclivities of celebrities his proclivity for shapely blondes