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evaluate
Verb
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If you evaluate someone or something, you judge it.
It is difficult to evaluate the effectiveness of the LINK programme, but we believe it has been useful.
offshoring
noun
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The location of a business in another country for tax purposes or lowering production costs.
strategy
Noun
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A strategy is a planned way to do something.
The new government is likely to change the economic strategy because the old strategy clearly isn't working.
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Strategy is the skill of planning.
You can't just do whatever comes into your head. You need to have a strategy.
for
Preposition
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shows that something belongs to something else, or has a specific function
This cake is for you.
This is a net for catching fish.
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For is used to show the reason for something
He was angry, for he had never been called such terrible names before.
for
Subordinator
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For introduces a clause with a subject and a to-infinitive
It's not good for you to be too relaxed.
hr
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noun
(= hour)
a period of time equal to 1/24th of a day
the job will take more than an hour
function
Noun
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Something or someone's function is its purpose or its job.
The army sometimes performs a policing function.
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A function is an organised event.
I met Sylvia at a church function last week.
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If mathX/math is a function of mathY/math, then mathX/math exists because of or is affected by mathY/math
The speed of the computer is a function of its main processor.
When you see, mathY=f(X)/math, you read it, "mathY/math is a function of mathX/math". Here the value of mathY/math depends on the value assigned to the variable mathX/math.
function
Verb
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If something is functioning, it is working and is not completely broken.
Her heart stopped, but her brain continued to function.
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If something functions as mathX/math, it does the job of mathX/math.
In this sentence, "sentence" functions as the subject.