Freedom for the farmer – The Hindu (July 16, 2016)
The Maharashtra government’s decision to promulgate an ordinance this week to exempt farmers from having to mandatorily sell their fruit and vegetable crop at mandis governed by a 1963 law on marketing farm produce, is a bold and laudable step. For further reading, visit “The Hindu”.
Today’s Word List:
- Promulgate (verb) – put into effect, enact, implement, enforce.
- Exempt from (verb) – free from an obligation/liability.
- Laudable (adjective) – praiseworthy, commendable, admirable.
- Stand one’s ground (idiom) – stand firm, be firm, make a stand, be determined.
- Lobby (noun) – attempt to/try to influence.
- Regime (noun) – system, scheme, plan, arrangement, procedure.
- Produce (noun) – agricultural products.
- Rake in (phrase) – earn, make accumulate (a lot of money).
- Upside (noun) – against, on.
- Shell out (phrase) – pay more/excessively.
- Sustainable (adjective) – maintainable, dependable, defensible (natural resources).
- Pertinent (adjective) – relevant, appropriate, suitable.
- Indebtedness (noun) – something which is owed, owing something like gratidute.
- Intervention (noun) – involvement, intervening action/process.
- Irrigation (noun) – supply of water to farm land to grow crops & plants.
- Monopoly (noun) – exclusive/complete control of something.
- Of the sort (phrase) – alike the person/things mentioned earlier.
- Acreage (noun) – area of the (agricultural) land.
- Rot (verb) – decay, decompose, disintegrate; go bad, go off, spoil.
- A chunk of (noun) – a significant amount of.
- Horticultural (adjective) – related to the farming of fruits, vegetables and flowers.
- Stranglehold (noun) – complete control.
- Rely on (verb) – depend on, lean, hinge; resort to.
- Captive (adjective) – without alternatives, without a choice.
- Heft (noun) – ability, influence.
- From farm to fork (idiom) – food chain from (agricultural) produce to food (on the table).
- Ambitious (adjective) – purposeful, progressive, motivated; bold, challenging, demanding.
- Unveil (verb) – make public, communicate, make known; launch, reveal, introduce.
- Wrestle with (verb) – grapple, fight, struggle, battle.
- Vested interest (noun) – personal/private interest of a person/group.
- Advisory (noun) – (government’s) official announcement.
Note:
- Click each one of the words above for their definition, more synonyms, pronunciation, example sentences, phrases, derivatives, origin and etc from http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/ .
- Definitions (elementary level) & Synonyms provided for the words above are my personal work and not that of Oxford University Press.
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