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71fold — to fail in business Either personally or corporately, from the collapsing: Second, they must let some of the banks fold to allow the financial sector to reconstruct. {Daily Telegraph, 15 January 1997, of the Japanese economy) In… …
72fold — I v 1. double, double over or up, turn up or under, dog ear, infold, crease; tuck, gather, crimp; pleat, plait. 2. wrap, wrap up, enwrap, enclose, envelop; clasp, embrace, hug, embosom, press, Inf. squeeze. 3. go out of business, fail, collapse,… …
73fold — 1. verb 1) I folded the cloth Syn: double, crease, turn, bend, tuck, pleat 2) the firm folded last year Syn: fail, collapse, founder, go bankrupt, cease trading …
74-fold — aff. a combining form meaning “having the number of kinds or parts” or “multiplied the number of times” specified by the initial element: fourfold; manyfold[/ex] • Etymology: ME; OE fald, feald, c. OFris, OS fald, OHG falt, ON faldr, Go falths,… …
75-fold — a suffix attached to numerals and other quantitative words or stems to denote multiplication by or division into a certain number, as in twofold, manifold. {Middle English; Old English (Northumbrian) fald; replacing Old English feald, ultimately… …
76fold (to) — Close, quit. ► “Executives at Detroit Newspapers, the joint agency that operates Knight Ridder’s morning Free Press and Gannett’s evening News, vigorously deny any intention to fold the News, despite the continuing shrinking of its… …
77fold — klostė statusas T sritis informatika apibrėžtis Priemonė tekstui paslėpti. Vietoj viso teksto parodomas trumpesnis, tarp specialiųjų ženklų (dažniausiai rodyklių), įterptas tekstas (dažniausiai tik paslėpto teksto pavadinimas). Plačiau žr. priede …
78fold — 1. in. to fail; to close. □ The play folded in the second week. □ I was afraid my business would fold because of the recession. 2. in. to collapse from drinking. □ Dave had just one more drink, and then he folded …
79fold — a fold of straw, a sheaf or bundle of straw. N …
80-fold — suffix forming adjectives and adverbs from cardinal numbers, meaning: 1 in an amount multiplied by (repaid tenfold). 2 consisting of so many parts (threefold blessing). Etymology: OE fald, feald, rel. to FOLD(1): orig. sense folded in so many… …
