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Hebrew to English translations [PRO] Bus/Financial - Economics | |||||||
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5 | (the market) treads water |
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5 | Plodding along |
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4 | The market is trudging along |
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4 | is faltering |
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2 | is dormant |
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is dormant Explanation: just an idea - it means that it makes no moves upwards |
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(the market) treads water Explanation: Please see examples, and there are many more. Example sentence(s):
Reference: http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1755&dat=19990316&id=A... Reference: http://finance.paidcontent.org/about/news/read?GUID=7494084 |
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The market is trudging along Explanation: Has Google entries. |
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is faltering Explanation: Ex: Then, as now, the stock market was faltering, while the price of gold was soaring... http://is.gd/biD3rq |
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Plodding along Explanation: Another possibility, synonymous with "trudge/trudge along". "Solar power in the US is booming in large scale utility-size projects, but the residential market is 'plodding along'" http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/series/guardian-enviro... "Plodding along, but uphill: the US job market" http://blog.emap.com/boris/2010/06/16/plodding-along-but-uph... |
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