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light | Business English

light
adjective
uk /laɪt/us
not great in size, strength, or amount:
Air traffic was very light at Heathrow so we were not delayed.
We had a light meal before we began negotiations.
TRANSPORT
used for describing forms of transport that are smaller or that use less power than the usual kind:
Fleets of light trucks deliver furniture to households throughout the region.
Light aircraft allow busy executives to fly anywhere at a moment's notice.
A contest for light rail development drew interest from urban planners.
needing only a very small amount of work or effort:
light chores/cleaning/work
 light on sth
not having a lot of something:
light on details/facts/informationHis presentation was light on details as to how he would spend the money.
 make light work of (doing) sth
to do something quickly or easily:
Workers from the second shift stayed late so we were able to make light work of unloading the deliveries.
light
noun
uk /laɪt/us
a way of thinking about or understanding something:
a bad/good/new lightAfter they won all those awards, we saw them in a new light and decided they were serious competitors.
a negative/positive lightWe want to show our country in a positive light.
 cast/shed light on sth
to show something about a situation that was previously unknown:
This sheds new light on why e-business investment does not always lead to improved firm performance.
 give sth a/the green light
to give someone permission to do something:
Contractors were given a green light to install the infrastructure for the industrial park.
 in the light of
UK(USin light of)
because of something or as a result of something:
In light of problems we're having, we have no choice but to close the business.

Examples of light

light
Besides nutrients and light, rice and weeds also competed for water.
Preconditioning with bright light evokes a protective response against light damage in the rat retina.
However, this does not warrant totally abandoning the notion of separate senses, particularly in light of evidence of limits in cross-modal representations.
Interestingly, although the amplitude of the light response can be completely recovered, the characteristic feedback-induced rollback does not reappear.
The size of the horizontal cell receptive fields adapts to the stimulus in the light adapted goldfish retina.
A 3-min period of dark adaptation was followed by a 1-min period of light adaptation to the two surrounds.
On a technical note, the maps are so blurred as to be sometimes unreadable and the print quality is light and indistinct on some pages.
The child was then told that the lights in the room would be turned off.
However, many problems have remained unsolved, and many supposed facts need to be revised in the light of recent research.
Luminance gradients are usually thought to provide cues about the interactions of light and surfaces that model the volume of the resulting object.
One major cross-linguistic generalisation that is supported by these data concerns syllable weight : many stress systems distinguish between light and heavy syllables.
In light of this, it would seem appropriate to try another analytical approach that could be appropriate for strongly nonlinear systems.
Roughly speaking, life nudges the universe so as to allow light to circumnavigate the universe first in one direction, and then another.
The pragmatic themes of reevaluation and revision in light of new information are evident in this method.
All of them shed a direct or oblique light on the main themes of this project.
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Collocations withlight

light

These are words often used in combination with light.

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amber light
Report on human cloning through embryo splitting: an amber light.
artificial light
It will be possible to modulate the transparency of the surface by mixing daylight, artificiallight from above and artificiallight from below.
beacon light
That lead was followed, and it acted as a beacon light for the remainder of the war.
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