Monday, 16 February 2009

Calls to ensure conflict-free cocoa

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adjective [before noun]
having a negative or harmful effect on something:
The match has been cancelled due to adverse weather conditions.
They received a lot of adverse publicity/criticism about the changes.
So far the drug is thought not to have any adverse effects.

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noun [U]
1 a dark brown powder made from cocoa beans, used to make chocolate and add a chocolate flavour to food and drink

2 a sweet chocolate drink that is made with cocoa powder:
a nice hot mug of cocoa

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noun [U] (ALSO revenues)
the income that a government or company receives regularly:
Taxes provide most of the government's revenue.
Government revenues fell dramatically.

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adjective
understood without being expressed directly:
tacit agreement/approval/support
ngầm,ko nói ra

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verb [T] SPECIALIZED
to make an official examination of the accounts of a business
sự kiem tra so sach

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adjective
1 If a substance or object is transparent, you can see through it very clearly:
Grow the bulbs in a transparent plastic box, so the children can see the roots growing.
Her blouse was practically transparent!
Compare opaque; translucent.

2 clear and easy to understand or recognize:
I think we should try to make the instructions more transparent.
trong suốt

sanction (APPROVAL) PhoneticPhoneticPhoneticPhoneticPhoneticPhoneticPhoneticPhoneticPhoneticPhoneticPhonetic Hide phonetics
noun [U]
approval or permission, especially formal or legal:
They tried to get official sanction for the scheme.

divert (CHANGE DIRECTION) PhoneticPhoneticPhoneticPhoneticPhoneticPhoneticPhoneticPhoneticPhoneticPhonetic Phonetic PhoneticPhoneticPhoneticPhoneticPhoneticPhoneticPhoneticPhoneticPhonetic Hide phonetics
verb [T]
1 to cause something or someone to change direction:
Traffic will be diverted through the side streets while the main road is resurfaced.
Our flight had to be diverted to Stansted because of the storm.

2 to use something for a different purpose:
Should more funds/money/resources be diverted from roads into railways?
làm trech hướng


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