• ~ role

• ~ power

• ~ morale

• ~ effort

• ~ confidence

• ~ basis

• ~ policy

examples:

• Criticism just undermines their confidence.

• Believing in these worlds resolves moral dilemmas that undermine social cooperation.

• Our confidence in the team has been seriously undermined.

• inflation ~

• ~ by …%

• prices ~

• kid has ~

• sales ~

• blood pressure ~

• unemployment ~

examples:

• Prices shot up by 25 percent.

• Unemployment shot up to a total of two million workers.

• Their kids have shot up since I last saw them.

Thousands of men were killed in hand-to-hand combat in less than 24 hours.

An exciting computer game of mortal combat against giants and monsters

Перевод: бороться, пресечь, остановить

example:

• I think Matt must be soft on Tammy - he keeps sending her flowers and cards.

• You should be soft on Bill, it's his first day in the office.

• I was to soft on you

- industry is booming

-

- prices are booming

• House prices are booming and I had to wait for prices to drop.

The government has announced plans to cut back on defence spending by 10 percent next year.

We are trying to cut back on travel costs.

Перевод: сократить, способ снижения расходов (to cut back on expenses)

- serious shortage

- water shortage

- ocute shortage

- period of shortage

- labor shortage