(n.) Any article or separable part of one's assets.
Example Sentences:
(1) A statement from the company said it had assigned all its assets for the benefit of creditors, in accordance with Massachusetts' law.
(2) The surge the prime minister talks about can only be achieved by coordinating assets across 43 forces.
(3) I believe that truth sets man free.” It was a curious stance for someone who spent many years undercover as a counter-espionage informant, a government propagandist, and unofficial asset of the Central Intelligence Agency.
(4) Henderson was given permission to join Fulham when Brendan Rodgers arrived at Anfield in 2012 but has since developed into an important asset for the Liverpool manager, to the extent that the 24-year-old is the leading candidate to succeed Steven Gerrard as club captain when the 34-year-old leaves for LA Galaxy.
(5) Half a million homes were sold in Scotland, we lost a huge, huge chunk of stock, and as house prices began to escalate so any asset to the community has gone.
(6) The Press Association tots up a total of £26bn in asset sales last year – including the state’s Eurostar stake, 30% of the Royal Mail and a slice of Lloyds.
(7) And we will sell those assets that can be managed better by the private sector.
(8) If you get a fit Diaby back, it will be a major asset for our team.
(9) Unfortunately, it probably won’t happen with many countries … But if we can have a great relationship with Russia, and China, and all countries, I’m all for that, that would be a tremendous asset.
(10) Glencore has responded in textbook fashion: it has cut operating costs, sold assets and taken the axe to capital investment.
(11) The reputations of companies linked to fossil fuels are at immediate risk from a fast-growing divestment campaign, one of Europe’s biggest asset managers has warned.
(12) But the full detail of the report and the scale of their assets is striking.
(13) Above all, Addis could help close tax loopholes that allow multinational companies to report profits in tax havens – rather than where their workforces, assets or sales are.
(14) The Ministry of Defence has said it is “planning for a seamless transition of assets”.
(15) The decision to split up News Corp followed the News of the World phone-hacking scandal, which focused the attention of investors on the company's newspaper assets, which are far less profitable than its film and TV businesses.
(16) Declarations are not public and the New York Times said four-fifths of the assets it found were held by relatives not covered by party rules, including his mother and various in-laws.
(17) Work with colleagues to retrieve, centrally store, check permissions and give new life to these assets.
(18) A trained economist, Klatten is Germany's richest woman with assets worth $14.3bn (and 58th richest in the world).
(19) He’s struck a few chords with the immigration stuff, and he’s managed to capture the most valuable asset in a campaign, which is the attention of the press.
(20) Whether divorce interrupts the savings process or destroys assets, it is unlikely that most individuals will be able to save enough in later life to overcome the loss.
Garbage
Definition:
(n.) Offal, as the bowels of an animal or fish; refuse animal or vegetable matter from a kitchen; hence, anything worthless, disgusting, or loathsome.
(v. t.) To strip of the bowels; to clean.
Example Sentences:
(1) Apparent digestibility of dry matter, crude protein, ether extract, crude fiber, and nitrogen-free extract in garbage and control diets averaged 54.2 and 47.4, 50.0 and 41.3, 62.0 and 65.1, 53.1 and 42.3, and 61.8 and 54.5% as determined by chromium oxide technique.
(2) In a week that has witnessed Rachel Dolezal’s return , the Ashley Madison hack and those Gawker resignations , we didn’t need any more garbage news – and it’s only Wednesday.
(3) Is Mexico the diplomatic equivalent of the Pacific garbage patch: the place where failed negotiations go to die?
(4) But then a mismanaged clean-up in an underground garbage dump ignited a seam of anthracite eight miles long that proved impossible to extinguish.
(5) That’s when my attorney came.” Police arrested another man, whom the Guardian will call Anthony, in 2006 on charges of starting a garbage fire, and moved him to Homan Square.
(6) Other cities, such as London, have cleaned their rivers not just of visual garbage but also invisible pollutants.
(7) The clogged sewage drains, road-side garbage dumps and unplanned industrial waste management pose severe health hazards.
(8) I watched them drag him out like a piece of garbage.” Police say Robinson died after arriving at a local hospital, but Ennis disputed this.
(9) According to the New York Times , he told its reporter Emily Steel that if he did not approve of her resulting article “I’m coming after you with everything I have,” adding: “You can take it as a threat.” The 65-year-old anchor – who earlier dismissed the Mother Jones article as “total bullshit”, “disgusting”, “defamation” and “a piece of garbage” – had promised that the archive tapes would comprehensively disprove the charges against him.
(10) The river used to bring nothing but pollution but in the last five years or so there is cleaner water, more nutrients and less garbage,” he said, adding that other conservation and protection measures elsewhere in the region have also improved the ocean waters considerably.
(11) Dani Alves, who this week called the Spanish media “garbage” for the way it covers soccer, came off the bench in the second half and was loudly cheered by the Barcelona fans.
(12) It is composed of a garbage bin plus lid, attractant and insecticide-treated offal.
(13) So, the fans will be cold, but other than that, it seems the biggest impact this Arctic snap will have on the region will be down I-43 in the city of Sheboygan where garbage collection has been delayed.
(14) As chair of the campaign in Epping (population: 6,411), he spends 30 hours each week making phone calls, attending Republican meetings in his and surrounding towns, and visiting the local garbage dump to evangelize Trump as more than a flash in the pan.
(15) I can already feel it piling into the garbage segment of my political memory, so that one day in the future, Javid’s oaths will have become I, the undersigned, do hereby promise to defend John Major’s cones around Theresa May’s racist vans , protect them from the vandalism of ridicule, because that is the British way; to tolerate views you disagree with, including this stupid oath.
(16) It's significantly less garbage-tasting, and potent enough to suitably end the evening.
(17) I want a pile of powder meth, 500 hits of acid, a garbage bag filled with mushrooms, a tube of glue bigger than a truck, a pool of gas large enough to drown in.
(18) Terkel won a Pulitzer prize for these stories, like that of Hobart Foote, or Babe Secoli the supermarket checker, who described customers engaged in something less like shopping than dodgem cars with trolleys, and garbage man Nick Salerno, discoursing on his long experience of how people pack their rubbish: "You get just like the milkman's horse — used to it."
(19) That said, everyone in this election is literal garbage, even the candidates who aren’t publicly in denial about their own garbage bodies and brains.
(20) Read more “My street is cleaner,” people say, ignoring the fact that the 6,000 tonnes of garbage collected is being moved unsustainably to other parts of the city.