A Country in Search of People
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Created by:
brianacadia on May 2, 2012
Subjects:
business, Brazil, economy, employment
Description:
Vocabulary from an article about the current labor market and the Brazilian economy.
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29 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 youth | young people |
| record | an extreme attainment |
| shortage | an acute insufficiency |
| at play | the result (succeeding or not succeeding) has not yet been determined |
| auditing | The job of reviewing and evaluating the records used to prepare a company's financial statements. |
| adamant | very determined |
| cherish | to hold in great affection |
| veritable | actual, true, real |
| sort | type or kind (category of something) |
| bottleneck | slow down or impede by creating an obstruction |
| realize | perceive (an idea or situation) mentally |
| in check | unable to act freely |
| face | deal with (something unpleasant) head on |
| grant | allow to have |
| arduous | difficult to accomplish |
| latter | the second of two things mentioned |
| ladder | steps consisting of two parallel members connected by rungs |
| spiral | to move in an adverse direction in an accelerating or out-of-control way |
| accompany | be associated with |
| attainment | an accomplishment, the act of achieving |
| robust | strong and healthy |
| mere | only; not much of something |
| kick off | start |
| fuel | a substance that can be consumed to produce energy |
| lengthy | protracted |
| defer | to delay or postpone |
| IPO | initial public offering: a corporation's first offer to sell stock to the public |
| precisely | exactly |
| inevitably | definitely, unavoidably |
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