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financial straits

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meanings of financialand strait


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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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Examples of financial straits


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If we must have a financialstrait-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.
Like all other individuals, justices must be able to support themselves or risk dire financial straits.
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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