Microsoft’s new link – The Hindu (June 15, 2016)
The decision of Microsoft to spend over $26 billion to buy LinkedIn, the “world’s largest professional network”, is an earnest attempt by the company founded by Bill Gates for continued relevance in a space that it once dominated, to the point of being a monopoly. For further reading, visit “The Hindu”.
Today’s Words:
- Earnest (adjective) – serious, sincere, dedicated, committed.
- Relevance (noun) – relevancy, applicability, bearing, pertinence.
- Monopoly (noun) – exclusive/complete control of something.
- Contours (noun) – shape, form, figure, profile.
- Legacy (noun) – something happened in the past/something that is coming from the past (footprint, achievement, feat, accomplishment).
- Reconcile (noun) – accept, learn to live with, make the best of, accommodate/adjust oneself to.
- Cliche (noun) – commonly used thing, stereotype, over used.
- Me-too (adjective) – concerned to adopting rival companies’ successful practices and policies.
- Acquisition (noun) – a company purchasing another one.
- Write down (noun) – a reduction in the calculated/estimated value of something.
- Traction (noun) – power, grip, purchase, pull.
- Thrive (verb) – develop, grow, flourish, prosper, blossom.
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/ .
- Synonyms provided for the words above are my personal work and not that of Oxford University Press.