What's the difference between afloat and directionless?
Afloat
Definition:
(adv. & a.) Borne on the water; floating; on board ship.
(adv. & a.) Moving; passing from place to place; in general circulation; as, a rumor is afloat.
(adv. & a.) Unfixed; moving without guide or control; adrift; as, our affairs are all afloat.
Example Sentences:
(1) But still she has struggled to keep the business afloat, charging monthly fees of between 1,000 and 1,300 yuan depending on the level of care needed.
(2) The EU, ECB and IMF, the troika of bodies keeping the debt-stricken Greek economy afloat, have signalled in no uncertain terms that they want some €8bn of the nearly €12bn package to come from pension and pay cuts, arguing that this will be the fastest way to get the best results.
(3) Each student brings £4,000 of funding, which keeps the college afloat.
(4) Never mind Tory spending cuts; they would be dwarfed by the SNP cuts necessary to keep the Scottish economy afloat in the radically altered market conditions we now face.” But despite “that rational evisceration of the SNP’s economic policies”, polls showed support for the SNP was now higher than at the time of the referendum.
(5) From time to time I'd bump into Amy she had good banter so we could chat a bit and have a laugh, she was a character but that world was riddled with half-cut, doped-up chancers, I was one of them, even in early recovery I was kept afloat only by clinging to the bodies of strangers so Winehouse, but for her gentle quirks didn't especially register.
(6) Franklin returned the Sony Reader, for ebooks, he was given by Random House, preferring to read submissions on paper, and while he thinks Apple and its competitors will "probably conquer the world eventually", for the moment he is more worried about how to keep bookshops afloat.
(7) Most British shipping companies maintain comprehensive medical services both ashore and afloat which are concerned with not only treatment but also preventive medicine.
(8) She shares her conflicted instincts, the personal frustration, the gritted teeth effort to stay afloat when the team was coming apart ... a declaration a lot of women will recognise: “I felt I could hold things together.” The eventual decision that the show could no longer stay afloat.
(9) Kenton's alliance with Zaleshoff isn't always an easy one - the journalist is unimpressed by the spy's attempt to fob him off with the official Stalinist line on Trotskyite subversion, for example, and Zaleshoff is, not unreasonably, suspicious of Kenton's motives for helping him - but it's kept afloat by the undercurrent of sexual attraction between Kenton and Zaleshoff's sister.
(10) This will be a damaging blow to many local shops who are struggling to stay afloat.
(11) These figures illustrate how millions of people are treading water, struggling to keep afloat and afford the very basics.
(12) The low cost of a base in Hull should help him and the colleagues he sub-contracts to keep afloat, along with a working wife – although the voluntary sector resource centre she runs is also under severe financial pressure – and children in their twenties who have left home and got jobs.
(13) "The UK deficit is the result of vital government action to keep the economy afloat and prevent the levels of unemployment, business closures and repossessions seen in previous recessions."
(14) With European taxpayers already irate that Greece will need yet more funds to keep afloat, the €130bn financial support load had previously been seen as a red line across which no EU government was willing to step.
(15) "Now the government is making the political choice to cut public services that will hit the poorest hardest rather than force the banks to change how they operate and repay those who kept them afloat."
(16) Aides close to Tsipras insisted that Athens had little desire to “seek enemies abroad” but the leftist leader had a duty to disclose the details of last month’s dramatic negotiations with creditors to keep the bankrupt country afloat.
(17) In the future being adaptable, able to learn how to learn, rather than learn how to remember, will be the only way of staying afloat in a swirling labour market.
(18) "It is food that is aimed for the thousands of Greek families blighted by the genocidal policies of the memorandum," said the party, referring to the loan agreement Athens has signed with international creditors to keep the debt-crippled country afloat.
(19) Map Greece has spent roughly €280m (£215m) handling the refugee crisis since the start of 2015 – money the debt-stricken country, dependent on emergency bailout loans to keep afloat, has struggled to find.
(20) The onerous terms of the deeply unpopular “memoranda”, agreed with foreign lenders to keep insolvent Greece afloat, would be overturned.