2. The daily grind
• If you refer to routine tasks or activities
as the grind, you mean they are boring
and take up a lot of time and effort.
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The daily grind of government is
done by Her Majesty's Civil Service.
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Life continues to be a terrible
grind for the ordinary person.
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11. It’s an on line startup
• On line startup company
• (Commerce) an on line business enterprise that has
been launched recently
• Start-Up Company
• A company in its earliest stage of development,
usually before its IPO. Start-up companies
concentrate on product development and build-up of
capitalization. Nearly all start-up companies operate
at a loss, at least at first. Some start-ups go through
a period where they have no revenue at all. Start-ups
spend their time perfecting their business plans and
developing products that will eventually be sold on
the open market. Most start-ups rely on
venture capital or loans to continue operations during
this phase. See also: Payout period, Dot-com bubble.
12. Not tied to an old-line brick
and mortar company
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tied up
tied up
If someone or something is tied up, they are busy or being used, with the
result that they are not available for anything else. (INFORMAL)
He's tied up with his new book. He's working hard, you know.
More and more old people have capital tied up in a house.
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brick–and–mortar
adjective
relating to or being a traditional business serving customers in a building as
contrasted to an online business <a brick–and–mortar store>
brick–and–mortar or bricks–and–mortar
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/brick-and-mortar
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• no-brain·er (nō′brā′nər)
• n. Informal
• Something so simple or easy as to
require no thought.
• something that requires or involves
little or no mental effort.
• "the enormous popularity of his TV show
makes the book a no-brainer for him"
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intransitive verb
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a : to come to an end : expire <time ran out>
b : to become exhausted or used up <the gasoline ran out>
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: to jut out
transitive verb
funding
funding
Funding is money which a government or organization provides for a particular
purpose.
They hope for government funding for the scheme.
Many colleges have seen their funding cut.
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• run out runs out; running out; ran out
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If you run out of something, you have no more of
it left.
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They have run out of ideas.
We're running out of time.
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By now the plane was running out of fuel.
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We had lots before but now we've run out.
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16. They closed down yesterday
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• : an occurrence or situation in which
work is stopped for a long time or
permanently in a business, factory, etc.
• : the end of television or radio
broadcasts for the day
