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Vocabulary - 2018/05

crow

〔雄のニワトリなどが〕大きな声で鳴く、誇らしげに[得意げに・得意そうに]言う

Ex) President Trump crowed about the landmark on Friday, tweeting, “4% is Broken!”

entitlement

権利(の付与)

Ex) Technical support entitlement (テクニカルサポートを受ける権利)

frenetic

熱狂した、大騒ぎの

Ex) during a period of frenetic activity remembered as the dot-com boom

impervious

〔人が批判・痛みなどに〕無感覚な、影響されない、鈍感な

Ex) He is impervious to criticism and rational argument.

payroll

1) 給与、給料、the total amount of money paid to the employees of a particular company
2) 従業員数、雇用人口、the total number of people employed by a company, or in an economy:

Ex1) The company relieved Tom of his post, but he remains on the company payroll.
Ex2) The reduction in temporary hiring has led to the second successive month of falling payrolls.

rank-and-file worker (employee)

〔管理職ではない〕一般社員、the ordinary workers

Ex) In 2000, wages for rank-and-file workers rose at an annual rate of around 4 percent.

unemployment rate

失業率、jobless rate

Ex) The unemployment rate fell below the 4 percent.

upshot

結果、結論、result

Ex) What's the upshot?

vie

競争する、compete

Ex) It’s easier to get low levels of unemployment when fewer people are vying for jobs.