20.01 Price, Food Flashcards
Price rise
A price hike
*Restaurants juck up their prices (inf)
Inflation/ higher prices/ increasing prices/ growing prices/
Black eye
Bruise around the eye
*He had a fight at school and came home with a black eye.
Short hair on man’s face if he has not shaved for a few days
Stubble
*With the back of his hand, he rubbed the stubble on his chin.
Wart
Small hard raised area that grows on the face
Sold out
Lack of stock/ food shortages/
Shrinkflation
Size reduction
- Shrinkflation is a cunning way of raising prices without actually raising the price of the product you are buying
Novel
1.Fiction printed story
- New and original
* Keeping a sheep in the garden is a novel way of keeping the grass short!
Be good to go
Be prepared and ready to do something
*Let me grab a jacket and then i’m good to go
Produce
- Make smth
- food or any other substance or material that is grown or obtained through farming
agricultural/dairy/fresh produce
Cart
- Vihicle with two or four wheels ( by hourse or shopping cart)
*The supplies arrived in a horse-drawn cart. - Take smth/smb using a lot of effort
* We carted all the rubbish to the bottom of the garden and burned it.
Commission
- Extra money
* Is she paid a regular wage or is it by commission only? - A group of people chosen to discover info about problem
*The premier said he would establish a commission to investigate the scandal.
Packaging
- Material in which objects are wrapped before being sold
* All our packaging is biodegradable /ˌbaɪ.əʊ.dɪˈɡreɪ.də.bəl/. - The process of describing smth more attractive
*Her success as a media personality is simply the result of clever packaging.
Hatch
- Break the egg to allow a young animal to come out
*The birds hatched out the next afternoon. - An opening through a wall/ floor
*an escape hatch
Stall
- Table with an open front from which goods are sold in a public place
*In the village market, the stalls are piled high with local vegetables. - (for time) Delay taking action or avoid
*She says she’ll give me the money next week but I think she’s just stalling (for time).
Chew up
- Destroy
*The cash machine chewed up my card! - Use smth quickly
*Urban expansion is chewing up the surrounding farmland.
Food bank
Soup kitchen
Place where free food is given to people with no money or no home
- That first year the school took two full pickup trucks to the food bank.
Money paid for transporting goods over long distances
Freight
- The ship carries both freight and passengers
A centre of activity
Hub
- The City of London is the hub of the UK’s financial world.
A cupboard or smal room with shelves where food items are kept
Pantry
- It boasted luxurious kitchens, pantries, and baths.
Money that an organisation receives regularly
Revenue
- Taxes provide most of the government’s revenue.
It is happening now
Underway
- Economic recovery is already underway.
Very necessary goods or smth else
Peak/ high demand
*There is a larger gap between the average demand and peak demand.
Prepared or made before
Premade
*Premade templates /ˈtem.pleɪt/ are available at the website.
Middleman
Person who buys goods from companies produced them and makes profit by selling them to a shop or a user
*You can lower the price by avoiding the use of the middleman and buying directly from the factory
Expensive (informal synonym)
Pricey
*It’s a bit pricey but the food is wonderful
A business that is owned and managed by the people who work there
A co-op (short for co-operative)
- Pete worked in a large food co-op in Boston.
Concerned about doing what is morally right
Ethical
- Is it ethical to clone human being?
Doesn’t go off or become unsafe to eat for a long time
Non-perishable
*Every person who comes to the centre is given a bag full of nonperishable goods.
Toiletries
Items needed for personal health and hygiene, like shampoo or toothbrush
*Inside the bag were shampoo and other toiletries.
fOrage (foraging for wild food)
Go from place to place searching for things that you can eat or use
*The chef offers special dishes of wild and foraged foods, including wood pigeon and snails.
*The pigs foraged in the woods for acorns. /ˈeɪ.kɔːn/
Dumpster diving
Searching through dumpsters in order to find food that can still be eaten
*Many identity thieves get their information by simple Dumpster diving.
