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To ask for the mon means to make unreasonable demands for thins or to wish something impossible to archieve or to obtain.
When you hold the fort it means that you take care of the place when the person normally in charge ia away.
Under the table ia a phrase used to describe secretive behaviour often suggesting corruption or illegality.
When you say someone has chickened out of something you mean they have failed to do something or the haven't tried to do it because they were afraid.
When you say someone is a wise old owl you mean they are very experienced in live. A night owl is someone who stays up late in to the night.
When you say someone is in safe hands you mean they are being cared of someone who is confident and skilled.
A safe pair of hands is a similar expression ir refers to someone who can be trusted to do a good job avoidind mistakes.
If someone tells you to hold your tongue it means they whant you to stop talking because they don't like what you are saying.
If a situation is black and white it means you have a clear opinion about it you can easly see what you think is right and wrong.
The phrase money doesn't grow on trees means you must not spend to much money as there is limited amount of it.
The phrase money is not object means that you have a lot of money available to spend.

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Geographical Glossary Unit 6 and 7

-Plot: An area of land where crops are grown. It can vary in sixe, shape or borders -Soil: The subtance on the surface of the Earth in which plants grow, produced mainly by the weathering of rock. -Crop rotation: The practice of growing different types of crops in the same area in sequential seasons. This method improves sil fertility and resistance to disease and pests -Intensive agriculture: is an agricultural production system characterized by a low fallow ratio and the high use of inputs such as capital, labour, or heavy use of pesticides and chemical fertilizers relative to land area. -Extensive agriculture: An agricultural system that uses small inputs of labour, fertilisers, and capital, relative to the area of land that is being farmed. -Dryland farming: Farming in which the fields receive only rainwater. -Irrigated farming: Farming in which the water from groundwater, reservoirs or rivers is brought to fields. -Polyculture: is agriculture using multiple crops in the same space, in imitation of the diversity of natural ecosystems, and avoiding large stands of single crops, or monoculture. It includes multi-cropping, intercropping, companion planting, beneficial weeds, and alley cropping. -Monoculture: is the agricultural practice of producing or growing a single crop or plant species over a wide area and for a large number of consecutive years -Greenhouses: is a building in which plants are grown -Subsistence agriculture: A type of agriculture in which farmers only grow enough food to feed themselves and their families. -Shifting cultivation: is an agricultural system in which plots of land are cultivated temporarily, then abandoned and allowed to revert to their natural vegetation while the cultivator moves on to another plot -Livestock farming: Farming bassed on rearing animals to obtain products. -Housed livestock: Livestock fed with fodder in farm buildings. This type of livestock must pass strict sanitary and quality controls -Cattle: are the most common type of large domesticated ungulates. -Fodder: is any agricultural foodstuff used specifically to feed domesticated livestock, such as cattle, goats, sheep, horses, chickens and pigs. -Rear: To care for, breed and grow animals until maturity. -Fishing grounds: An area of water that is used for fishing. -Aquaculture: is the farming of aquatic organisms such as fish, crustaceans, molluscs and aquatic plants. -Overfishing: is a form of overexploitation in which fish stocks are depleted to unacceptable levels, regardless of water body size. -Fleets: is an aggregate of commercial fishing vessels -School of fish: many fishes together -Economic activity: the different processes involved in the production and consumption of goods and services -Economic agent: a person, group or institution involved in the economy -Goods: tangible economic products, such as food, that are usually consumed after production -Services: economic activities, such as banking or education, that are intangible -Production: an activity that provides goods and services for consumption. the production of goods combines natural resources, skills, financial investment and labour -Distribution: the marketing, delivery and sale of goods and services -Marketing: the act of researching, promoting and advertising a product or service in order to sell it -Consumption: the use of a product or service to satisfy needs or desires -Supply: availability of something of use or sale -Demand: the desire to own something in the market and the willingness to pay for it -Inflation: a rise in the general level of prices of goods and services in the economy or a decrease in value of the purchasing power of money -Profit: the monetary gain of a business after all expenses have been met -Tax: a monetary contribution to the government requires of people, groups or business -Raw material: material on which a particular manufacturing process is carried out -Telecommuting: the use of home computers, telephones, etc, to enable a person to work from home while maintaining contact with colleagues, customers, or a central office -Employer: a person, business, firm, etc, that employs workers -Employee: a person who is hired to work for another or for a business, firm, etc, in return for payment -Self-employed: earning one's living in one's own business or through freelance work, rather than as the employee of another -Active population: people currently employed in the production of goods and services and the people who are unemployed or looking for their first job -Inactive population: people not in active service -Disabled: lacking one or more physical powers, such as the ability to walk or to coordinate one's movements, as from the effects of a disease or accident, or through mental impairment -Retired: to give up or to cause (a person) to give up his work, a post, etc, esp on reaching pensionable age -Full-time contracts: a person works a minimum number of hours defined as such by his/her employer. -Part-time contracts: a form of employment that carries fewer hours per week than a full-time job.