By Elizabeth Knowles, Julia Elliott
New phrases are the footprints of time. To recite a few of the words that experience develop into renowned within the 1990s--Generation X, Prozac, highway rage, shock-jock, voice mail--is to fast-forward via our contemporary heritage. Now, within the moment variation of The Oxford Dictionary of latest phrases, readers can get pleasure from a smorgasbord of latest phrases and words which have been coined--or popularized--in the final ten years.
Here are hundreds and hundreds of exciting, informative articles that supply the pronunciations, definitions, pattern sentences, origins, and casual histories of over 2,500 new phrases and words. The editors have drawn phrases from politics, the environmental flow, expertise, enterprise, activities, and leisure; politically charged phrases corresponding to tree-hugger, feminazi, and lipstick lesbian, and renowned expressions equivalent to ''the ___ from hell'' (waiter from hell, dentist from hell) and ''been there, performed that.'' Two-thirds of the articles are new to this version, and the others--on still-prominent phrases incorporated within the first edition--have been both revised or newly written. this beneficial and interesting source is the 1st position to show for info whilst confronted with new phrases and words, and should be a gold mine of language for be aware fanatics all over.
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1988, p. 13 asset asset noun (Business World) The first word of a number of compounds fashionable in the business and financial world, including: asset card, a US name for the debit card (see card°); asset management, the active management of the assets of a company so as to optimize the return on investments; the job of an asset manager; asset-stripping, the practice of selling off the assets of a company (especially one which has recently been taken over) so as to make maximum profit, but without regard for the company's future; the activity of an asset-stripper.
The Australian 24 Nov. 1987, p. 5-million plan to revamp the Tower. The Times 28 Sept. 1990, p. 17 antibody-positive adjective (Health and Fitness) Having had a positive result in a blood test for the Aids virus HIV; at risk of developing Aids. Etymology: Formed by compounding; having a positive test for antibodies to HIV. Long before Aids, antibody-positive was in technical use for the result of any blood test for antibodies to a virus; it is only in popular usage that it has become specialized almost exclusively to the Aids sense.
The chemical does not remain on the surface of the fruit, but penetrates the flesh, so that it cannot be washed off or removed by peeling. The results of research published in the second half of the eighties showed that, when the apples were subsequently processed (in order to make apple juice, for instance), Alar could be converted into unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine (or UDMH), a potent carcinogen. This discovery brought Alar unwelcome publicity during the late eighties: mothers anxious to protect their children from harmful chemicals in foods (among them some famous mothers such as film star Meryl Streep in the US and comedian Pamela Stephenson in the UK) led a campaign to have its use discontinued.