address, arguably, accounting losses, air cadets, acknowledge, academic, account for vat, assert its

independence,

arcane, advertise, adept, abscond, aid workers, accrued interest, advertiser, abate,

backlash, bid, bid away, barb, bind, backslide, becalmed, balance sheet, boon, the bulk of, tax breaks,
bout, is brewing, bring forth, beget, binding agreement, legally binding agreement, bullish, bearish,
broker, breakthrough, businesses, business, botched, tax burden, bequest, a byword for, bestow, balk
at,

brainy, back-of-the-envelope, bent, by one count, barriers to entry, bidding rounds, brush off, borrowing
costs, borne out, bigwig,

churn out, checkout, clout, corporate tax, conspicuously, conspicuous, crackdown, choke point,
contrition, cater to, corporate profits, (credit squeeze) credit crunch, clampdown, contract out, cost of
capital, compound, compound annual growth rate (CAGR), check, be consistent with, chargeable,
charge, call for, civil service,

checked baggage, caste, calibrate, coalition agreement, the Criminal Code, competition law, cash in on,
cash in, crisp, cot, card carrying communist, ceremonial head of state, cronyism, corporate governance,

defang, decorous, decorously, duly, defer, dent, deftly, deft, drip, demerit, demerits, merits and
demerits, dispute resolution mechanism, double as, disown, deliver progress, dwindling, democratic
credentials,

internet-based democracy, deferred tax asset, deferred tax liabilities, tax liabilities, tax-deductible,
damnably, drab, defined benefit pension plans, design of works, disenchantment, diplomatic row,
dearth, decriminalize, the delivery of justice,

egregious, entice, eschew, enthrall, ease,

edge up, anti-establishment,

front-runner, footing, fallback position, fallback option, fallback, fleece, flat, forgone, forgo, far-sighted,
fault line, fault, face down, fraught, freight rate, fiddle, farcical, flout, flat-rate, flat-rate income tax,

fillip, (flunkey) flunky, forty winks, forward presence, (enhanced forward presence), first-past-the-post,

be grounded in, gnarly, galvanize, galvanize into doing, grind to a halt, gripe, the gripes, gripe, go public,
gauge, gauge, govern, negotiating guidelines,
glut, glut, glut his eyes, grievous, grievous bodily harm, do sb. a grievous wrong, goodwill,

glitzy, ginger up, granted, gregarious, (land transport) ground transport, grind out, gag rule,

heirloom, holdover, homily, (hodgepodge) hotchpotch, haul, hefty, haphazard, float, hail as,
hoard, hoard, hew to, tax hikes, hike, hone, hull,
haggle, hub, heft, heft, hung parliament,

ill-defined, inveterate, irk, intractable, in full view, ill-considered, incremental, in the run-up to,

irate, indignity, in the course of business, incongruous, indict, indictment,

jack-of-all-trade (and master of none),

keen,

legal proceedings, highly-leveraged, leverage, lapse,

liable for (to), liable to, the contract is liable to changes,

loiter, liken, lame duck,

miscreant, manslaughter, mettle, minutiae, gain momentum, maintain the momentum, lose
momentum, momentum, gather momentum, murky, grave misconduct, mainstay,
price movements, mischief, criminal mischief, misgivings,

maverick, mange, moat, grill, monopoly profit, moulder, mishap,

contract notice, design contest notice, contract award notice, prior information notice, negotiated
procedure,

net neutrality, niggle, nursery school,

out of pocket, overhaul, operating profit, outlandish, output, at odds, overriding,

off location, ostensibly,

parcel, pin his hopes on, profligacy, profligate, paint himself into a corner, pollster, prod, posturing,
pre-emptive, phase out, perk up, a plentiful supply of, public procurement, pretrial detention, plaintiff,
push through,

plump for, pension pot, poacher, preternatural, plump, policymakers, primary care, pampered, pamper,
police, prime, pay court, plaudits, through the prism of, powerhouse,
printing company (firm, house, office, works), paltry, play out, pointedly,

quote,

rescind, rile, rule of law mechanism, rule of law, a rap on the knuckles, tax rate, effective tax rate, rough
and ready, ramp up, rampant, rifle through, revamp, rebut, redevelop,
return on capital, return on investments, legal remedy, redress,

regulators, ringmaster, rack up, run its course, rule of thumb, rapproachment, automatic ranking or re-
ranking, vax return,

stay one’s hand, spendthrift, set against, when set against, set against this background, set against the
background of, sleuth, sleuth, sweltering, swelter, skew, sampling bias, swamped with,
acquire stakes, stake, controlling stake, profit squeeze, squeeze on profit margins, sales tax, stoke, see
off, shore up, taxable supply, straddle,
stopgap, stem from,

stir the pot, sovereign bonds, security screening, sentiment, a slew of, squatter, stand sb. in good stead,
slight, tax shelter, special schemes, state media, shimmer, shimmering, shipping firm, slot into, sitting,
slate,
soundings,
tight-lipped, tout, think tank, tenuous, truculent, trove, treasure trove, tender, call for tender, public
tender,
thaw, take delivery of, ticket,

thumb one’s nose at, thin-skinned, trainee teacher, with all the trimmings, trimming, top-up,
trustbuster, pension trust, pension trustees, trustee, (the board of trustees), trustee in bankruptcy, go
on a tear, big-ticket items, trump card, tapestry, full-throated,
tentative, translate into,

urbane, uncanny, upgrade, umpteen, uphold, unduly, undercut,

undertake to…,

ubiquitous, uptick,

veto, (vaunted) much vaunted, vexing, vexed, vex,

voice assistant,

wring one’s hands, weaponize, write-down, wield, watchdog, wind up (a company), weighting, windfall,
windfall profit, windfall gains, windfall revenue, writ large,

whopping, whipsaw, wafer-thin, public works contracts, works,

(year-over-year) year-on-year, in the year to (month),

zero-sum game,