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foot | Business English

foot
noun
uk /fʊt/us
[ C ] MEASURES pluralfeet | foot(writtenabbreviationft)
a unit of measurement equal to 12 inches or 0.3048 metres, sometimes shown by the symbol ′:
His brief was to provide 10 million square feet of office space on a 16-acre site.
[ S ]
the bottom or lower end of something:
the foot of sthAdditional notes are added at the foot of the page.
 be run/rushed off your feet
to be extremely busy:
Business was booming, and everyone in the office was rushed off their feet.
 drag your feet
to be very slow in doing something, for example taking a decision:
Reformers claim that the FSA is dragging its feet on banking reform.
 fall/land on your feet
to be successful or lucky, especially after a period of not having success or luck:
After the redundancies, about a fifth of the workers immediately landed on their feet, getting jobs at a local start-up company.
 get back on your feet(alsoget sb/sth back on their feet)
to start experiencing an improved situation after a time of trouble or difficulty or to help a person, company, etc. to do this:
There is enormous support for quick, low-interest loans to help companies get back on their feet after a disaster.
 get a/your foot in the door
to enter a business or an organization at a low level, but with a chance of being more successful in the future:
Graduate Careers Opportunities will help you get a foot in the door of your chosen career.
 get your feet wet
to start doing something new:
The company got its feet wet by taking a stand at the trader's exhibition.
foot
verb
uk /fʊt/us
 foot the bill
to pay the cost of something:
Senior managers might be able to get employers to foot the bill for a weekend executive-MBA program.

Examples of foot

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Varying combinations of muscle groups were stimulated and foot switches were used to trigger each channel at the appropriate period of the gait cycle.
The relation between the word and the foot is thus no longer a hierarchical matter.
Further research must be undertaken on maternal smoking and deformities of the foot for the possible association to be con®rmed.
More specifically, providing /p, t, k/ are foot internal, they will be glottalised.
This is a valid assumption, since the foot is considered massless and inertialess.
The final syllable can support a stressed foot since it is binary at the level of the mora.
Since conflicting alignment does not produce adjacent foot-heads, there is no opportunity for clash.
This enlarges her ability to experience and shape the near-field sounds around her body, even allowing her to shape sounds with her hands and feet.
So when the eighth child died, those who buried it inflicted some injuries under the sole of the feet, probably with thorns.
An integrated model to predict the atmospheric spread of foot-and-mouth disease virus.
Others found work as foot soldiers in the private armies of wealthy notables or as independent bandits.
This constraint simply expresses the unilaterality of contact forces exerted by the ground on the foot.
The autopsy established the existence of marks produced by blows from a hard instrument on his face, legs and the soles of his feet.
Thus, a word with two feet counts as if it is two words, exhausting its phonological phrase.
Reactions are less severe in wounds to the extremities, such as the ankle and foot, which suggests the toxins moved slowly through the bloodstream.
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Collocations withfoot

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broken foot
He suffered only severe blast injuries to his legs, arms and face and, in addition, had a brokenfoot.
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