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G3 G5 G7 G8 G10 The worlds leading economies: Germany, Japan and the USA. The five largest economies: the United States, Japan, Germany, France and the United Kingdom. is an abbreviation for the Group of Seven biggest industrialised countries: Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the US; G7 countries plus Russia; G8 meetings are limited to heads of state and government G7 leading capitalist countries plus Belgium, The Netherlands and Sweden. Subsequently joined by Switzerland to make 11 but still referred to as the G10. It works within the framework of the International Monetary Fund to coordinate fiscal and monetary policies for a stable world economic system. G24 G30 G77 gaff The Gambia gambit Gandhi gangrene gaol gauge gay gelatin gender was originally a grammatical term to indicate whether a noun is masculine, feminine or neuter, so it may seem a bit prissy to use it as an indication of general maleness or femaleness, but the word is preferred to sex if only to prevent distracting confusion with sexual intercourse see also entry for labels Geneva Conventions genitive genocide note plural for agreements on the treatment of prisoners and conduct of war is sometimes also called possessive; a personal pronoun preceding a gerund (qv) must be in the genitive eg: I accnot approve your demanding a larger room means the extermination of a nation or ethnic group, and is therefore an extremely large-scale brutal campaign of murder that occurs seldom; it therefore diminishes the horror of its true application if it is bandied about even for major devastation; as a result avoid it almost always and quotations from others should put it the word in quotes genus George Town geriatric german measles German shepherd gerrymander gerund is a major group within which there may be many species; normal presentation means the genus is capitalised but the species is not so you Staphylococcus aureus, Homo sapiens; plurals are genera and species is the capital of the Cayman Islands and the main city on Penang island; Georgetown is the capital of Guyana and a district and university in Washington DC means medical treatment of the old and is therefore not a synonym for old rubella is a person, his dog is an alsatian not jerrymander is when a part of a verb functions as a noun (eg driving has to be learnt); in English this needs scarcely to be known except when it is qualified by a possessive - they objected to him coming means the objection was expressed while he use jail instead for scales and measurements; gage for the fruit such as greengage avoid; use homosexual instead, if that is the sense; it has become so associated with homosexuality however that one can hardly use it in its original meaning without exciting sniggers so say happy or jolly, if that is the meaning An informal group of developing countries formed to represent their interests in negotiations on international monetary matters. Eight members each from Africa, Asia and Latin America. A private, non-profit group of industry leaders, bankers, central bankers and academics that discusses and studies international economic and financial market issues. Originally established with 77 developing countries, but now considerably expanded, to help promote the views of developing countries on international trade and development within the United Nations. is a hook of the sort used in fishing; gaffe is an error or embarrassing faux pas requires the definite article means the opening of a game (originally chess and implying a strategic sacrifice) so to talk of an opening gambit is pleonastic; it is also therefore the wrong word to use when tactic or ploy is meant not Ghandi

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approached, but if the meaning was they did not want him to come the correct construction is they objected to his coming; in that case the general rule is that a personal pronoun preceding a gerund should be in the genitive geyser ghetto gibe gift girl-friend Girl Guides glamorous gobbledegook goes without saying going public Golders Green Goldsmiths College golf goodwill gourmand government grams graffiti gratuitous Great Britain greengrocers apostrophe grisly gross national product grottoes growth if it really does, then do not say it; this is, like of course, an invitation to the reader to stop since there will be no further useful information a synonym for getting a stock market quotation or listing, and is also called flotation no apostrophe no apostrophe par - standard number of strokes allotted per hole; birdie - one under par; eagle - two under par; albatross - three under par; bogey - one over par; double-bogey - two over par; triple-bogey - three over par is one word when used in the business sense of reputation or accounting convenience in the case of takeovers is a glutton; the fastidious and knowledgeable eater is gourmet whom you can also call a gastronome is a common noun and hence takes a lower case not grammes is plural, the singular is graffito but that is so unusual that readers may stumble over the word so find an alternative formulation to avoid it means something for nothing, free, voluntary; free is shorter; an acceptable use would be in the sense of unwarranted (the insult seemed gratuitous) describes England, Wales and Scotland; if Northern Ireland is intended to be included use Britain or UK is the term for evidence of ignorance in inserting unnecessary apostrophes in plurals (eg carrots) means horrifying, repugnant; grizzly means greyish (as in grizzled) or is an abbreviated form for grizzly bear total value of goods and services produced by an economy, including income from overseas investments and remittances from nationals working abroad not grottos is a much misused word by economists who have been known to refer even to negative growth - in that case contraction, recession, decline would all be preferable; when they refer to stagnant or flat growth it might be nicer to describe it as no growth or flat output guerrilla Guiana guilders gunned down gunwale Gurkha guru gutted gypsy avoid, except in reference to an Indian holy man means eviscerated, not burnt out or unhappy as an expression for people who keep moving; for the peripatetic people who set up camp around the country as a way of life, the label is probably traveller as few will be true Gypsies; the people who really are of Gypsy blood are trying to live down centuries of hostility by calling themselves Roma and their language Romany gybe for the sailing manoeuvre, jibe for sneer for the irregular soldier; gorilla for the large ape is the dpartement of France on the Atlantic coast of South America; the part that used to be British Guiana is now called Guyana; Dutch Guiana is now called Suriname rather than florins for the Dutch currency shot is preferable for the edge of a boat is a spout of geothermal water or a gas appliance for heating water in the home; geezer is slang for a man plural is ghettos prefer jibe for a sneer or taunt, to differentiate from gybe, a sailing manoeuvre present is preferable; gift is not a verb is preferred with a hyphen; it is not a euphemism for mistress now call themselves just Guides; in America they are called Girl Scouts

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