Related Words:
- straitened
collapse - distressed or embarrassed (especially financially) related words >
- Lenten,
- Spartan,
- abstemious,
- ascetic,
- austere,
- badly off,
- bound,
- bounded,
- conditioned,
- confined,
- copyrighted,
- cramped,
- desperate,
- destitute,
- disciplined,
- distressed,
- down to bedrock,
- dwarfed,
- dwarfish,
- embarrassed,
- exiguous,
- feeling the pinch,
- finite,
- frugal,
- hard pressed,
- hard up,
- ill off,
- impecunious,
- impoverished,
- in Queer Street,
- in desperate straits,
- in extremis,
- in extremities,
- in narrow circumstances,
- in reduced circumstances,
- in straitened circumstances,
- inadequate,
- indigent,
- insolvent,
- insufficient,
- jejune,
- land-poor,
- lean,
- limited,
- meager,
- mean,
- miserly,
- moderated,
- narrow,
- necessitous,
- needy,
- niggardly,
- on the edge,
- oppressed,
- out of pocket,
- paltry,
- parsimonious,
- patented,
- penniless,
- pinched,
- poor,
- poorly off,
- poverty-stricken,
- prescribed,
- proscribed,
- puny,
- qualified,
- reduced,
- restricted,
- scant,
- scanty,
- scrawny,
- scrimp,
- scrimpy,
- short,
- short of cash,
- short of funds,
- short of money,
- skimp,
- skimpy,
- slender,
- slight,
- slim,
- small,
- sorely pressed,
- spare,
- sparing,
- squeezed,
- starvation,
- stingy,
- stinted,
- strait,
- strapped,
- stunted,
- subsistence,
- thin,
- unmoneyed,
- unnourishing,
- unnutritious,
- unprosperous,
- up against it,
- watered,
- watery
- retail
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- the selling of goods to consumers; usually in small quantities and not for resale
- selling or related to selling direct to the consumer; "retail trade"; "retail business"; "retail price"
- at a retail price; "I'll sell it to you retail only"
- sell on the retail market
- be sold at the retail level; "These gems retail at thousands of dollars each" related words >
- battologize,
- be in,
- bestrew,
- bill of sale,
- broadcast,
- business,
- carry,
- circumfuse,
- close out,
- commercial,
- convert into cash,
- cut under,
- deal in,
- deal out,
- demand,
- diffract,
- diffuse,
- dispense,
- disperse,
- dispread,
- disseminate,
- distribute,
- diverge,
- dump,
- effect a sale,
- fan out,
- fill,
- give an encore,
- go over,
- go through,
- handle,
- industrial,
- issue,
- iterate,
- job,
- make a sale,
- market,
- marketing,
- mass market,
- mercantile,
- merchandise,
- merchandising,
- merchant,
- move,
- outlet,
- overscatter,
- oversow,
- overspread,
- pad,
- practice,
- propagate,
- publish,
- radiate,
- reaffirm,
- reassert,
- recapitulate,
- recite,
- recount,
- rehash,
- rehearse,
- reissue,
- reiterate,
- reprint,
- resell,
- restate,
- resume,
- retailing,
- retell,
- review,
- reword,
- run over,
- sacrifice,
- sale,
- sales,
- say over,
- say over again,
- scatter,
- sell,
- sell off,
- sell on consignment,
- sell out,
- sell over,
- sell retail,
- sell short,
- sell up,
- sell wholesale,
- selling,
- sow,
- sow broadcast,
- splay,
- spread,
- spread out,
- strew,
- sum up,
- summarize,
- tautologize,
- tie-in,
- trade,
- trade in,
- trading,
- traffic in,
- turn into money,
- turn over,
- turnover,
- undercut,
- undersell,
- unload,
- utter,
- wholesale,
- wholesaling
- abalienation,
- alienation,
- amortization,
- amortizement,
- annihilation,
- assignation,
- assignment,
- bane,
- bargain and sale,
- barter,
- bequeathal,
- biological death,
- cash in,
- cessation of life,
- cession,
- clinical death,
- conferment,
- conferral,
- consignation,
- consignment,
- conveyance,
- conveyancing,
- crossing the bar,
- curtains,
- death,
- death knell,
- debt of nature,
- decease,
- deeding,
- deliverance,
- delivery,
- depart,
- departure,
- die,
- disposal,
- disposition,
- dissolution,
- doom,
- drop,
- dying,
- ebb of life,
- end,
- end of life,
- ending,
- enfeoffment,
- eternal rest,
- exchange,
- exit,
- expiration,
- expire,
- extinction,
- extinguishment,
- final summons,
- finger of death,
- giving,
- go,
- going,
- going off,
- grave,
- hand of death,
- jaws of death,
- knell,
- last debt,
- last muster,
- last rest,
- last roundup,
- last sleep,
- lease and release,
- leaving life,
- loss of life,
- making an end,
- parting,
- pass,
- pass away,
- passing,
- passing away,
- passing over,
- perishing,
- quietus,
- release,
- rest,
- reward,
- sale,
- sentence of death,
- settlement,
- settling,
- shades of death,
- shadow of death,
- silence,
- sleep,
- somatic death,
- succumb,
- summons of death,
- surrender,
- trading,
- transfer,
- transference,
- transmission,
- transmittal,
- vesting
- hire
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- the act of hiring something or someone; "he signed up for a week's car hire"
- a newly hired employee; "the new hires need special training"
- engage or hire for work; "They hired two new secretaries in the department"; "How many people has she employed?" related words >
- admission,
- admission fee,
- anchorage,
- appoint,
- bareboat charter,
- base pay,
- bespeak,
- book,
- brief,
- brokerage,
- carfare,
- cellarage,
- charge,
- charges,
- charter,
- compensation,
- contract for,
- cost,
- cover charge,
- demand,
- dismissal wage,
- dockage,
- dues,
- earnings,
- emolument,
- employ,
- engage,
- enlist,
- entrance fee,
- escalator clause,
- escalator plan,
- exaction,
- exactment,
- fare,
- farm,
- farm out,
- fee,
- financial remuneration,
- gross income,
- guaranteed annual wage,
- hire out,
- hiring,
- income,
- job,
- lease,
- lease out,
- lease-back,
- lease-lend,
- lend-lease,
- let,
- let off,
- let out,
- license fee,
- living wage,
- minimum wage,
- net income,
- pay,
- pay and allowances,
- payment,
- payroll,
- pilotage,
- portage,
- portal-to-portal pay,
- preengage,
- price,
- purchasing power,
- put on,
- rate,
- real wages,
- recruit,
- remuneration,
- rent,
- rent out,
- rental,
- reserve,
- retain,
- salary,
- salvage,
- scot,
- scot and lot,
- severance pay,
- shot,
- sign on,
- sign up,
- sign up for,
- sliding scale,
- stipend,
- storage,
- sublease,
- sublet,
- subrent,
- take into employment,
- take on,
- take-home,
- take-home pay,
- taxable income,
- toll,
- total compensation,
- towage,
- underlet,
- wage,
- wage control,
- wage freeze,
- wage reduction,
- wage rollback,
- wage scale,
- wages,
- wages after deductions,
- wages after taxes,
- wharfage
- stock company
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- a theatrical company that performs plays from a repertoire
- a company whose capital is represented by stock related words >
- Aktiengesellschaft,
- accident insurance,
- acting company,
- actuary,
- aktiebolag,
- annuity,
- assurance,
- aviation insurance,
- bail bond,
- body corporate,
- bond,
- business,
- business establishment,
- business life insurance,
- cartel,
- cast,
- cast of characters,
- casualty insurance,
- certificate of insurance,
- chamber of commerce,
- characters,
- chorus,
- circus troupe,
- combine,
- commercial enterprise,
- compagnie,
- company,
- concern,
- conglomerate,
- conglomerate corporation,
- consolidating company,
- consortium,
- copartnership,
- corporate body,
- corporation,
- corps de ballet,
- court bond,
- credit insurance,
- credit life insurance,
- deductible,
- diversified corporation,
- dramatis personae,
- endowment insurance,
- ensemble,
- enterprise,
- family maintenance policy,
- fidelity bond,
- fidelity insurance,
- firm,
- flood insurance,
- fraternal insurance,
- government insurance,
- health insurance,
- holding company,
- house,
- industrial life insurance,
- industry,
- insurance,
- insurance agent,
- insurance broker,
- insurance company,
- insurance man,
- insurance policy,
- interinsurance,
- joint-stock association,
- joint-stock company,
- liability insurance,
- license bond,
- limited payment insurance,
- major medical insurance,
- malpractice insurance,
- marine insurance,
- mutual company,
- ocean marine insurance,
- operating company,
- partnership,
- permit bond,
- plunderbund,
- policy,
- pool,
- public utility,
- repertory company,
- robbery insurance,
- social security,
- stock insurance company,
- supporting cast,
- syndicate,
- term insurance,
- theft insurance,
- trade association,
- troupe,
- trust,
- underwriter,
- utility
- whet
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- sharpen by rubbing, as on a whetstone
- make keen or more acute; "whet my appetite" related words >
- accelerate,
- aculeate,
- acuminate,
- aggravate,
- agitate,
- animate,
- antepast,
- antipasto,
- aperitif,
- appetizer,
- arouse,
- awaken,
- bait,
- barb,
- beef up,
- bestir,
- blow the coals,
- blow up,
- bribe,
- canape,
- carrot,
- challenge,
- complicate,
- concentrate,
- condense,
- consolidate,
- cultivate,
- cuspidate,
- deepen,
- double,
- edge,
- encouragement,
- enhance,
- enliven,
- exacerbate,
- exaggerate,
- excite,
- exhilarate,
- fan,
- fan the flame,
- feed the fire,
- ferment,
- file,
- fillip,
- fire,
- foment,
- foretaste,
- galvanize,
- grind,
- heat,
- heat up,
- heighten,
- hone,
- hop up,
- hot up,
- impassion,
- incense,
- incentive,
- incite,
- incitement,
- inducement,
- inflame,
- infuse life into,
- instigate,
- intensify,
- interest,
- invigorate,
- invitation,
- jazz up,
- key up,
- kindle,
- lure,
- magnify,
- make complex,
- make sensitive,
- nettle,
- oilstone,
- payment,
- percentage,
- persuasive,
- pick up,
- pique,
- point,
- profit,
- provocation,
- provoke,
- put up to,
- quicken,
- rally,
- ramify,
- redouble,
- refine,
- reinforce,
- renew,
- reset,
- resuscitate,
- revive,
- reward,
- rouse,
- sensibilize,
- sensitize,
- set,
- set on,
- sharp,
- sharpen,
- sic on,
- smorgasbord,
- soup up,
- spiculate,
- spur,
- step up,
- stimulate,
- stimulation,
- stimulative,
- stimulus,
- stir,
- stir the embers,
- stir up,
- strap,
- strengthen,
- strop,
- sweetener,
- sweetening,
- taper,
- tickle,
- triple,
- wake,
- waken,
- whip up,
- work up
- stimulation
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- the act of arousing an organism to action
- any stimulating information or event; acts to arouse action
- (physiology) the effect of a stimulus (on nerves or organs etc.) related words >
- a high,
- actuation,
- aggravation,
- agitation,
- alpha decay,
- animation,
- arousal,
- arousing,
- atom-chipping,
- atom-smashing,
- atomic disintegration,
- atomic reaction,
- atomization,
- bait,
- beta decay,
- bombardment,
- bracer,
- bracing,
- breeding,
- bribe,
- bullet,
- carrot,
- chain reaction,
- cleavage,
- cordial,
- direction,
- disintegration series,
- dissociation,
- electrification,
- emotion,
- encouragement,
- energizing,
- enlivenment,
- exacerbation,
- exasperation,
- exchange reaction,
- excitation,
- excitedness,
- excitement,
- exhilaration,
- fillip,
- firing,
- fission,
- fission reaction,
- fomentation,
- galvanization,
- gamma decay,
- incentive,
- incitation,
- incitement,
- inducement,
- inflammation,
- influence,
- infuriation,
- inner-direction,
- instigation,
- interest,
- invigoration,
- invitation,
- ionization,
- irritation,
- lathering up,
- lure,
- manic state,
- motivation,
- moving,
- neutron reaction,
- nonreversible reaction,
- nuclear fission,
- nucleization,
- other-direction,
- payment,
- pep rally,
- pep talk,
- percentage,
- persuasive,
- perturbation,
- photodisintegration,
- pick-me-up,
- profit,
- prompting,
- proton gun,
- proton reaction,
- provocation,
- quickening,
- rabble-rousing,
- reanimation,
- recreation,
- refection,
- refreshing,
- refreshment,
- regale,
- regalement,
- reinvigoration,
- renewal,
- reversible reaction,
- revitalization,
- revival,
- revivescence,
- revivescency,
- revivification,
- reward,
- splitting the atom,
- steaming up,
- stimulative,
- stimulus,
- stirring,
- stirring up,
- stirring-up,
- sweetener,
- sweetening,
- target,
- thermonuclear reaction,
- tonic,
- vitalization,
- vivification,
- whet,
- whipping up,
- working up
- abatement
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- the act of abating; "laws enforcing noise abatement" related words >
- abridgment,
- agio,
- allayment,
- alleviation,
- allowance,
- analgesia,
- anesthesia,
- anesthetizing,
- appeasement,
- assuagement,
- attenuation,
- attrition,
- bank discount,
- blunting,
- breakage,
- calming,
- cash discount,
- chain discount,
- charge-off,
- concession,
- contraction,
- cut,
- dampening,
- damping,
- deadening,
- debilitation,
- decrease,
- decrement,
- decrescence,
- deduction,
- deflation,
- demulsion,
- depreciation,
- depression,
- devitalization,
- dilution,
- diminishment,
- diminution,
- discount,
- drawback,
- dulcification,
- dulling,
- dying,
- dying off,
- ease,
- easement,
- easing,
- effemination,
- enervation,
- enfeeblement,
- evisceration,
- exhaustion,
- extenuation,
- fade-out,
- falling-off,
- fatigue,
- hushing,
- inanition,
- kickback,
- languishment,
- leniency,
- lessening,
- letdown,
- letup,
- lightening,
- loosening,
- lowering,
- lulling,
- miniaturization,
- mitigation,
- modulation,
- mollification,
- numbing,
- pacification,
- palliation,
- penalty,
- penalty clause,
- percentage,
- premium,
- price reduction,
- price-cut,
- quietening,
- quieting,
- rebate,
- rebatement,
- reduction,
- refund,
- relaxation,
- relief,
- remedy,
- remission,
- rollback,
- sagging,
- salvage,
- salving,
- scaling down,
- setoff,
- simplicity,
- slackening,
- softening,
- soothing,
- subduement,
- subtraction,
- tare,
- tempering,
- thinning,
- time discount,
- trade discount,
- tranquilization,
- tret,
- underselling,
- weakening,
- write-off
- treasure house
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- a storehouse for treasures related words >
- Fort Knox,
- Golconda,
- archives,
- armory,
- arsenal,
- attic,
- bank,
- basement,
- bay,
- bin,
- bonded warehouse,
- bookcase,
- box,
- bunker,
- bursary,
- buttery,
- cargo dock,
- cash register,
- cashbox,
- cellar,
- chest,
- closet,
- coffer,
- coin box,
- conservatory,
- crate,
- crib,
- cupboard,
- depository,
- depot,
- dock,
- drawer,
- dump,
- eldorado,
- exchequer,
- fisc,
- glory hole,
- godown,
- gold depository,
- gold mine,
- hold,
- hutch,
- library,
- locker,
- lumber room,
- lumberyard,
- magasin,
- magazine,
- mine,
- money chest,
- penny bank,
- piggy bank,
- pork barrel,
- public crib,
- public till,
- public treasury,
- public trough,
- rack,
- repertory,
- repository,
- reservoir,
- rick,
- safe,
- safe-deposit box,
- shelf,
- stack,
- stack room,
- stock room,
- storage,
- store,
- storehouse,
- storeroom,
- strong room,
- strongbox,
- subtreasury,
- supply base,
- supply depot,
- tank,
- till,
- treasure house,
- treasure room,
- treasure trove,
- treasury,
- vat,
- vault,
- warehouse,
- wine cellar
- drawback
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- the quality of being a hindrance; "he pointed out all the drawbacks to my plan" related words >
- abatement,
- agio,
- allowance,
- bank discount,
- blemish,
- block,
- blockade,
- bottleneck,
- breakage,
- bug,
- cash discount,
- catch,
- chain discount,
- charge-off,
- concession,
- cordon,
- crack,
- curtain,
- cut,
- damage,
- deduction,
- defect,
- defection,
- deficiency,
- depreciation,
- determent,
- deterrent,
- detriment,
- difficulty,
- disability,
- disadvantage,
- discount,
- evil,
- failing,
- failure,
- fault,
- faute,
- flaw,
- foible,
- frailty,
- handicap,
- hang-up,
- harm,
- hazard,
- hindrance,
- hitch,
- hole,
- hurdle,
- hurt,
- ill,
- impairment,
- impediment,
- imperfection,
- inadequacy,
- inconvenience,
- infirmity,
- injury,
- joker,
- kickback,
- kink,
- liability,
- little problem,
- loss,
- loss of ground,
- mischief,
- objection,
- obstacle,
- obstruction,
- obstructive,
- one small difficulty,
- penalty,
- penalty clause,
- percentage,
- prejudice,
- premium,
- price reduction,
- price-cut,
- problem,
- rebate,
- rebatement,
- reduction,
- refund,
- rift,
- rollback,
- rub,
- salvage,
- setoff,
- shortcoming,
- snag,
- something missing,
- step backward,
- stumbling block,
- stumbling stone,
- taint,
- tare,
- time discount,
- trade discount,
- tret,
- trouble,
- underselling,
- vulnerable place,
- weak link,
- weak point,
- weakness,
- write-off
- dun
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- horse of a dull brownish grey color
- a color or pigment varying around a light grey-brown color; "she wore dun"
- of a dull greyish brown to brownish grey color; "the dun and dreary prairie"
- make a dun color
- cure by salting; "dun codfish"
- persistently ask for overdue payment; "The grocer dunned his customers every day by telephone" related words >
- account,
- annoy,
- apply pressure,
- bay,
- bayard,
- bedevil,
- beige,
- beleaguer,
- beset,
- besiege,
- bill,
- bill collector,
- bill of account,
- bill of lading,
- blandish,
- brown,
- brownish,
- brownish-yellow,
- brunet,
- buckskin,
- bug,
- buttonhole,
- cajole,
- calico pony,
- caliginous,
- call,
- call in,
- check,
- chestnut,
- chocolate,
- cinnamon,
- coax,
- cocoa,
- cocoa-brown,
- coffee,
- coffee-brown,
- collection agent,
- credit man,
- creditor,
- creditress,
- dapple-gray,
- debtee,
- demand payment,
- dim,
- drab,
- dun-brown,
- dun-drab,
- dunner,
- dusk,
- dusky,
- ecru,
- exert pressure,
- fawn,
- fawn-colored,
- fuscous,
- gloomy,
- gnaw,
- gray,
- grege,
- grizzle,
- harass,
- hazel,
- importune,
- invoice,
- itemized bill,
- khaki,
- lurid,
- manifest,
- mortgage-holder,
- mortgagee,
- murky,
- nag,
- nag at,
- needle,
- note-holder,
- nut-brown,
- obscure,
- olive-brown,
- olive-drab,
- paint,
- painted pony,
- pester,
- piebald,
- pinto,
- plague,
- ply,
- press,
- pressure,
- push,
- reckoning,
- roan,
- score,
- seal,
- seal-brown,
- send a statement,
- sepia,
- skewbald,
- snuff-colored,
- somber,
- sorrel,
- statement,
- tab,
- tan,
- taupe,
- tawny,
- tease,
- toast,
- toast-brown,
- umber,
- umber-colored,
- urge,
- walnut,
- walnut-brown,
- wheedle,
- work on,
- yellowish-brown
- exploit
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- use or manipulate to one's advantage; "He exploit the new taxation system"; "She knows how to work the system"; "he works his parents for sympathy"
- draw from; make good use of; "we must exploit the resources we are given wisely" related words >
- abuse,
- accomplished fact,
- accomplishment,
- achievement,
- act,
- acta,
- action,
- adventure,
- apply,
- aristeia,
- attainment,
- beguile,
- benefit from,
- bestow,
- bleed,
- bleed white,
- blow,
- bold stroke,
- capitalize on,
- cash in on,
- clip,
- coup,
- cultivate,
- dealings,
- deed,
- do,
- doing,
- doings,
- drain,
- effort,
- employ,
- emprise,
- endeavor,
- enterprise,
- exercise,
- fait accompli,
- feat,
- finesse,
- fleece,
- gest,
- go,
- gouge,
- hand,
- handiwork,
- handle,
- heroic act,
- hold up,
- ill-use,
- impose,
- impose upon,
- improve,
- improve the occasion,
- job,
- jockey,
- make capital of,
- make hay,
- make use of,
- maneuver,
- manipulate,
- measure,
- milk,
- misuse,
- move,
- operation,
- overcharge,
- overprice,
- overt act,
- overtax,
- passage,
- performance,
- play,
- play on,
- presume upon,
- proceeding,
- production,
- profit by,
- profiteer,
- put to advantage,
- res gestae,
- screw,
- skin,
- soak,
- step,
- stick,
- sting,
- stroke,
- stunt,
- suck dry,
- surcharge,
- swindle,
- take advantage of,
- thing,
- thing done,
- tour de force,
- trade on,
- transaction,
- turn,
- turn to account,
- turn to profit,
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