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The club does not have a large budget for new players.
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Other adjectives which collocate with budget include tight, small, limited, and big. Also, you can use the words low-budget and big-budget as adjectives, as in: Low-budget local films sell less than big-budget productions from overseas. |
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Overseas students often find it hard to pay for their living expenses. |
Living expenses is the money that you spend on rent, food, and things such as electricity, gas etc. |
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When the local economy is bad people with low or average incomes need to cut their household expenditure and try to save every penny they can. |
Household expenditure is the amount of money the people in a house spend on food, heating etc. |
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The government will pay for the new schools by increasing the tax on luxury goods. |
The preposition for the noun tax is on. Tax can also be used as a verb. For example, The rich are supposed to be taxed at a higher rate than the poor. |
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The government should allocated a budget for building cheap housing for low-income people. |
Allocate means to use something for a particular purpose. The noun form is allocation. Allocation of funds to universities will enable them to provide more facilities for students. |
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Start-ups often underestimate the running costs of their business and run into many financial problems.
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A start-up is a small business that has just been started.
Running costs means the amount of money needed to operate an organization, system, etc. |
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People on higher incomes should pay more tax. More help is needed for people on low incomes. |
A common phrase in English is source of income, as in Tourism is one of the country's main sources of income. A more advanced synonym for this is source of revenue. |
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Some celebrities receive six-figure salaries and some people believe they don't deserve it.
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Salary is the money you receive monthly for the work you do. A six-figure salary is one over £100,000 or $100,000. |
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Elderly people often find it hard to live on their state pension. Students and pensioners are entitled to a discount. |
Pension is an amount of money paid regularly by the government to someone who does not work any more. Someone who receives a pension is called a pensioner. |
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Government banks should grant low-interest loans to young people who want to start their own business. |
Loan an amount of money that you borrow, often from a bank. |
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Teachers do not generally have a well-paid job.
It was boring badly-paid work. |
A well-paid job has a high salary. A more advanced (and more formal) synonym is remunerative. |
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Companies need to make a huge investment in advertisements to boost sales.
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The verb form is invest (money in something). In spoken English, people often say put money in or into something, as in I put all my money into my brother's business. |
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More government funding should be allocated to construction of facilities to attract more tourists. |
Funding is money given by a government or organization for an event or activity. |
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Tourism is a highly profitable business.
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Profitable means producing a profit. Lucrative is a more advanced word which means producing a lot of money.
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The objective of the charity is to raise funds to help needy youngsters.
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To raise funds means to collect money that you can use to do a particular job or help people. |
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Children who receive a weekly pocket money are believed to become better at money management.
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Pocket money is an amount of money which parents regularly give to their child to spend as they choose. The synonyms is allowance.
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Impoverished people should receive free or subsidized housing. |
Impoverished is a formal and more advanced word for poor.
The company received a substantial government subsidy. |
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Affluent nations should help poorer nations financially. |
Affluent is a formal word for rich. It is a very useful word as it collocates with different nouns: - affluent people and families - an affluent neighborhood - affluent nations |