Today’s “Word of the Day” is whack-a-mole and it is a noun meaning “a situation in which problems are popping up continuously & randomly (as soon as you solve a problem, another one appears and so on) and all efforts taken to fix them are only producing incomplete or temporary results”.
Example Sentence: Over the past decade, tax avoidance by big global companies shifting their profits to low-tax countries has received a great deal of media attention. The Fair Tax Foundation has shown how tech giants such as Apple and Google continue to pay small amounts of tax. A country such as Ireland, with its low corporate tax rate of 12.5%, scoops up much of the money that tech companies make across Europe. Governments have to play whack-a-mole, trying to shut down the tax loopholes that allow this behaviour – with mixed success.
This word is present in If you’re rich there are legal – and not so legal – ways to lower your tax bill and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Guardian
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