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market
Noun
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A market is a place where many people come to buy and sell things.
It's time to take the cows to the market.
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The market is the stock market.
The market rose Tuesday on good results from the banking sector.
Cable stocks have lost an estimated market value of $ 6 to $ 8 billion.
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A market is a group of people or businesses that might buy goods or services.
The government is trying to help farmers find a new market for their grain.
The financial and oil markets continued to react negatively to the news from the war.
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A market is the total amount or value of a particular kind of goods or services bought or sold.
The company already has a 54-percent share of the commercial jet market.
market
Verb
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If you market something, you make it available for sale and you try to get people to buy it.
Manufacturers who spend millions to develop new drugs heavily market their products.
allocation
Noun
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An allocation is the amount that is given out or shared.
Our department's allocation of computer time is too small.
We need to increase the allocation of funds to fix the roads problem.
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Allocation is the act of giving out or sharing something.
The budget allocations are becoming less and less frequent.
With the new focus on the environment, governments are rethinking their resource allocation plans.
The broad allocation of contracts means that we don't depend on any one company.
and
Conjunction
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You use and to talk about two things at once.
I like singing and reading.
Mary and Jane went on a holiday together.
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You use and when you are listing a few things and you are now on your last item of the list.
I like singing, reading, cycling and playing soccer.
I used to like this girl from my class as she is pretty, gentle and caring.
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And is used when you are putting two sentences together.
She came into the store, shouted at the cashier, and left.
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Used to show what happened after something else.
The alarm went off and I woke up.
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And is used to join certain numbers together.
Two hundred and thirty-five people went missing after the earthquake.
environmental
Adjective
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Environmental protection, education, issues, etc. all relate to the natural world: land, air, water, and living things.
The country needs help to deal with its environmental problems.
Saving the forests makes economic as well as environmental sense.
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Environmental factors, impact, effect, etc. all relate to the area around someone or something.
The disease is caused by a combination of genetic and environmental factors.
costs
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noun
pecuniary reimbursement to the winning party for the expenses of litigation