financial straits
collocation in Englishmeaningsoffinancialandstrait
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financial
adjective
uk/faɪˈnæn.ʃəl/us/faɪˈnæn.ʃəl/
relating to money or how money ...
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strait
noun
uk/streɪt/us/streɪt/
a narrow area of sea that connects two larger areas ...
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(Definition offinancialandstraitfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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If we must have afinancialstrait-jacket, let it not be more rigid than it need be.
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This left him in financial straits, prolonged because he lost his job and failed to find another for several years.
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Like all other individuals, justices must be able to support themselves or risk dire financial straits.
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I believe that to be of crucial importance, certainly in cases where operators are in dire financial straits, as many currently are.
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Is it not true that at the moment it is in dire financial straits, and not making a profit?
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I am very doubtful whether in our present financial straits it is possible to approve public spending on the rail link.
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It is either owing to financial straits or the want of absolute power under the law which has restrained them in the past.
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In fact, such programmes find themselves in difficult financial straits.
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He was certainly aware of the dire financial straits of the trust from the point of view of the gallery.
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Many of them are in serious financial straits and are not in a position to pay any money for the replacement of equipment.
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I maintain that it is a very poor advertisement that they should be in such financial straits.
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I know dozens of cases in my constituency of elderly people in dire financial straits living on small incomes from investments.
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Few widows remarry because they are afraid of losing their pension and finding themselves in financial straits later on in life.
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Damage is to be permitted to be done there because of the financial straits of this country.
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However, we must remember that agriculture is in dire financial straits at the moment.
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Here is a country in the greatest financial straits which it has ever experienced.
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I understand they are in dire financial straits.
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Many have wives and children whom they have had to abandon and who may be in financial straits.
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I submit that this company will be in financial straits from the moment it goes to allotment; it cannot be otherwise.
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Who will pay for the new computers that will be located in the post offices, especially those in financial straits?
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