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cushion English

Meaning cushion meaning

What does cushion mean?
Definitions in simple English

cushion Noun

— A cushion is a pillow; a soft thing that people can sit on or put their head on when they lie down. Here's a bed with sheets, a cushion and a blanket. Here's a soft chair with two cushions to make it even softer.

cushion

— verb protect from impact cushion the blow — noun (= shock) a mechanical damper; absorbs energy of sudden impulses the old car needed a new set of shocks — noun a soft bag filled with air or a mass of padding such as feathers or foam rubber etc — noun the layer of air that supports a hovercraft or similar vehicle

Synonyms cushion synonyms

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cushion English » English

pillow pad mattress non-call period bolster soften buffer mat shock absorber shock pincushion carpet bed watch over upholstery upholster tick support stuff stone template stifle squab spring slake sink into shock mitigation safeguard rug remit relieve redemption redeem pulvillus protect preserve pouffe pillowcase padstone padding pad stone packing block mute muffle mitigate matting lining kiss inkpad inflatable cushion harbour

Topics cushion topics

What do people use cushion to talk about?
Daily life Household equipment Furniture

Chair

Conjugation cushion conjugation

How do you conjugate cushion?

cushion · verb

Examples cushion examples

How do I use cushion in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Tom placed a cushion on the floor and sat on the cushion.
I'm going to make a cushion and fill it with fir needles.
Tom placed a cushion on the floor and sat on it.

Movie subtitles

A great show, the whole company, a cushion with that medal on it.
Tape measure around the neck and pin-cushion on the hip.
Miss Jessica used to say this is the only way. for a lady to break her fast. in bed, with a lacy cushion to bank her head on.
I don't want him bleeding over my cushion.
This cushion, this frame - it's all her.
I sat on a soft cushion in a pine-paneled office. I gave orders, people jumped and I made a bucket of dough per week.
We found Mitchell's wallet there, down behind a sofa cushion.
Enough we could take there for a small cushion for the Zelton job?
Have you got the air cushion?
I still can't find that air cushion.
I come in all alone carrying Josephine's handkerchief on a cushion.
The cushion of water between the explosion and the wall absorbs the shock almost completely.
The cushion of water acts in our favour sending shockwaves right through the wall.
Three-cushion?
What are you doing with that cushion?
Pausing merely to slip a pillow slip over the day cushion. we complete the metamorphosis.
She must have packed that paper under this cushion.
Here's one with a cushion.
Unless our murderer makes a cushion shot.
May I get you a cushion for your feet?
With cushion?
She was sitting on a cushion, wearing the finest silk stockings, with precious heels, and gloves made of snakeskin, once even gold-colored.
It may not heal your grief, but it will cushion it.
Last time, a dog came and ripped my cushion.
Offer him a cushion.
Lannington was smothered to death with a cushion.
Light like a down cushion!
Do you have the air cushion?
Oh, a 3-cushion game!
I've borrowed your pin cushion.
Here's your cushion, Sir.
You must have a cushion.
An air cushion.
Mon Dieu, please not on the cushion, my cushion, it.

News and current affairs

Such weak recoveries, by definition, lack the cushion of V-shaped rebounds.
Nor does time cushion anemic post-crisis recoveries from the inevitable next shock.
Too many Americans built no cushion into their budgets, and mortgage companies, focusing on the fees generated by new mortgages, did not encourage them to do so.
Boosting competitiveness through exchange-rate depreciation may not succeed in raising exports in a situation where world trade is rapidly contracting, but it can cushion the blow by switching demand toward domestically produced goods and services.
But if the stock market collapses too quickly, the Fed should worry about a recession and react aggressively to cushion the fall.
But, before long, many developing countries will also have to face up to it, and in many cases without a cushion of affluence.
Obsessed with the war on terror as well as an ideology of privatizing the functions of government, the administration systematically sapped FEMA's long-term ability to prevent disaster or at least cushion the blows when prevention is not possible.
Greater reliance on equity would give banks a much larger cushion to absorb losses.
For those without an equity cushion, refinancing was not a possibility, and rising interest rates have led to default, foreclosure, and homelessness.
When the packages were unwrapped, most of their contents turned out to consist of pools of toxic assets for which there was no proper due diligence, no evidence of capacity to repay, and little cushion to cope with a market downturn.
Even in China, where the government has deep pockets to cushion the fall, one Lehman Brothers-size bankruptcy could lead to a major panic.
It funded the investment imperatives of economic development and boosted the cushion of foreign-exchange reserves that has shielded China from external shocks.
Yet these are temporary remedies that cushion the unfavorable external and domestic environment, they go no further than that.
But sluggish growth means less tax revenue and more demands for payments to cushion hardship, placing pressure on government budgets.
Regulators then shifted to edicts requiring banks to maintain a specified capital cushion, thick enough to cover potential losses.
Not only can public assets be used to cushion shocks and counter adverse trends; they can also help fund an expansion of social insurance.
As a result, the Russian government's only option for financing its deficit is to tap its reserve fund, which is meant to cushion the economy against shocks.
None of these countries has adequate savings to cushion the blow of reduced revenues.
In particular, if the firm's equity capital erodes, the government should not provide funds (directly or indirectly) to increase the cushion available to bondholders.
They funded this activity with a lot of short-term debt and a wafer-thin cushion of equity.
In addition, such insulation discourages the raising of additional capital, inducing executives to run banks with a capital level that provides an inadequate cushion for bondholders and depositors.
Without an inflationary cushion labor markets would have to be modernized, and peso wages would fall to the point were the country could compete internationally.
The IMF has already moved quickly to help many of our member countries in this time of crisis, including by protecting social spending in order to cushion the impact of the crisis on the most vulnerable.
Borrowing and lending institutions will need to change, so that they better cushion people against the risk of personal bankruptcy.

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