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1. Gross Fixed Capital Formation • Gross fixed capital formation is a macroeconomic concept used in official national accounts • Gross fixed capital formation is essentially net investment. It is a component of the Expenditure method of calculating GDP. • To be more...

1. Leeway • The amount of freedom to move or act that is available. Usage: The government in power has greater leeway to introduce reforms. Synonyms: freedom, scope, room to manoeuvre, latitude 2. Secessionist • A person who favours formal withdrawal from membership...

1. Rhetoric • The art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the exploitation of figures of speech and other compositional techniques. • Language designed to have a persuasive or impressive effect, but which is often regarded as lacking in...

1. Entrenched • Of an attitude, habit, or belief firmly established and difficult or unlikely to change. Usage: An entrenched resistance to change. 2. Proxy war • A proxy war is an armed conflict between two states or non-state actors which act on the instigation or...

1. Enshrine • Preserve a right, tradition, or idea in a form that ensures it will be protected and respected. Usage: The right of all workers to strike was enshrined in the new constitution. 2. Iffy • Doubtful quality or legality. Usage: A good wine merchant will...

1. Schemer • A person who is involved in making secret or underhand plans. Synonyms: plotter, conspirator, intriguer, conniver Usage: Macbeth is a schemer and plotter who is eventually undone by his own misdeeds. 2. Fulmination • An expression of vehement protest....

1. Infirmity • Physical or mental weakness. Usage: Old age and infirmity come to both, men and women. 2. Rampant • Something unwelcome flourishing or spreading unchecked. Usage: Political violence was rampant in those years. Synonyms: uncontrolled, unrestrained,...

1. Redux • Brought back or revived. Usage: Damian has the veneer of the angry young man redux. 2. Dillydally • To waste time by loitering or delaying. Usage: India will have an unrivalled opportunity to see what it can make of its young people in the next few years if...

1. Liquidity crunch • In financial economics, a liquidity crunch refers to an acute shortage of liquidity. • Liquidity may refer to market liquidity, funding liquidity, or accounting liquidity. • Some economists define a market to be liquid if it can absorb liquidity...

1. Fait accompli • A thing that has already happened or been decided before those affected hear about it, leaving them with no option but to accept it. Usage: The results were presented to shareholders as a fait accompli. 2. Realpolitik • A system of politics or...