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Latest post Sun, Oct 7 2007 7:02 AM by Mister Micawber. 1 replies.
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Anonymous  +  427569 Fri, 05 Oct 07 08:00 PM

Hello,

Could you please, check if there is any mistake in the following words (for some I give my own definitions to see if the words match with them):

- sustenance farming (when you have your  small kitchen garden, i.g. for your own sustenance);

- to crop or pick (up) green fruits in the trees;

- homemade food (food that you prepare at home, usually simple and tasty);

- pipe cars (in regions in which there is a severe draught for example, people can buy water from pipe cars. It often happens in regions of underdeveloped countries);

- a pig and chicken breeding ( when you breed pig, chicken and other animals usually for your sustenance. for instance);

- a permanent job/employment/work;

- saturated market (when there are too many doctors, lawyers, architects, teachers,.. in the job market);

- tinned lunch (i.g. when you don't want to eat in any restaurant or you are without much time so you bring food from your house into a metal pan with a lid in a meal frame for carrying food; so we may say you have a tinned lunch);     

- What do we call those very poor houses that can be found in slums (very commom in underdeveloped countries ?);

- street peddlar (the person that for choice or lack of job opportunity starts to sell several things in a stall on the streets);

- What do we call the act of washing clothes to make/earn a living ?

I do appreciate your kind help,

Sebastian      Big Smile [:D]

Mister Micawber  +  428129 Sun, 07 Oct 07 07:02 AM

- sustenance farming (when you have a small kitchen garden, e.g. for your own sustenance);

- to pick fruit from trees;

- home-cooked food (food that you prepare at home, usually simple and tasty);

- tank trucks (in regions in which there is a severe draught, for example, people can buy water from tank trucks. It often happens in regions of underdeveloped countries);

- pig or chicken raising ( when you raise pigs, chickens and other animals usually for your sustenance, for instance);

- permanent work/ permanent employment/a permanent job;

- saturated market (when there are too many doctors, lawyers, architects, teachers,.. in the job market);

- box lunch (i.g. when you don't want to eat in any restaurant or you are without much time so you bring food from your house into a metal pan with a lid in a meal frame for carrying food; so we may say you have a tinned lunch);     

- Shacks / shanties / hovels--What do we call those very poor houses that can be found in slums (very commom in underdeveloped countries ?);

- street peddlar (the person that for choice or lack of job opportunity sells oddments in a stall on the streets);

- What do we call the act of washing clothes to make/earn a living ?-- the act is'laundering' or 'washing clothes'.  The establishment is a laundry.  The staff are launderers and launderesses (or washerwomen).


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