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Business Dictionary :
Award, Away, Awkward and Axe
Award, Away, Awkward and Axe
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Award : noun : decision which settles a dispute
• An award by an industrial tribunal
• The arbitrator's award was set aside on appeal.
Award : verb : to decide the amount of money to be given to someone
• To award someone a salary increase
• To award damages
• The judge awarded costs to the defendant.
• To award a contract to someone = to decide that someone will have the contract to do work
Away : adverb : not here or somewhere else
• The managing director is away on business.
• My secretary is away sick.
• The company is moving away from its down-market image.
Awkward : adjective : difficult to deal with
• The board is trying to solve the awkward problem of the managing director's son.
• When he asked for the loan the bank started to ask some very awkward questions.
• He is being very awkward about giving us further credit.
Axe : noun : stop
• The project got the axe = the project was stopped.
Axe : verb : to cut or to stop
• To axe expenditure
• Several thousand jobs are to be axed.