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Sustainability

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Consists of fulfilling the needs of current generations without compromising the needs of future generations, while ensuring a balance between economic growth, environmental care and social well-being.

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Bumpy

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Rough or uneven

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Soured on

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To stop like or being interested in something or to cause someone to stop liking or being interested in something

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Thrift

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Being very careful about how much money you spend

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Funded

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To provide the money to pay for event, activity, or organization

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To flip through

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To look quickly through a book, magazine, website, etc. Without reading everything

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Frown on

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To disapprove of

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Burgeoning

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Growing, expanding or developing rapidly

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To take off

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To leave or go away

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Global

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Pertaining to the whole world, worldwide; universal

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Juiced

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To make something more powerful

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At triple its prior valuation

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An estimation of the worth of something

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Commissioned

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A commissioned person has been formally asked to produce something by a person in authority

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Curated resellers

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Carefully chosen and thoughtfully organized / a person or company sells something they have bought to someone else

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Apparel

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Personal attire

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Bloom is now coming off the rose

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The person, object, or a situation identified in the context has lost its novelty, freshness, appeal, or acceptability

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Scepticism

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An attitude that shows you doubt whether something is true or useful

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Warranted

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To declare or maintain with certainty; be sure that

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It swung to a loss

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When you are in a puzzled, perplexed, instate of uncertainty

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Bricks and mortar competition

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Business that has atleast one physical location that customers can visit

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Struggles to beat

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To take some considerable effort to match or surpass

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Courting

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To have a romantic relationship with someone that you hope to marry

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Thriving

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To do well in a particular kind of situation

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Vouches off

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To say that something or someone is honest, true, or good

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Engorged

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Overeat or eat immodestly

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Capitalize

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To get an advantage from