Betekenis van:
afloat

afloat
Bijvoeglijk naamwoord
  • benauwd
  • covered with water
"the main deck was afloat (or awash)"

Synoniemen

afloat
Bijvoeglijk naamwoord
  • drijvend (adverb)
  • borne on the water; floating

Hyperoniemen

afloat
Bijvoeglijk naamwoord
  • stuurloos
  • aimlessly drifting

Synoniemen


Voorbeeldzinnen

  1. There are strange rumors afloat.
  2. The company managed to keep afloat.
  3. The ship was afloat at last.
  4. We only just manage to keep afloat on my husband's small salary.
  5. maintaining inefficient firms afloat;
  6. Maintaining inefficient firms afloat
  7. By artificially keeping a company afloat, the interests of the sector are harmed.
  8. The primary objective of the measures is to assist a company in financial difficulty and to keep it afloat.
  9. The primary objective of the measures is to assist a company in financial difficulty and keep it afloat.
  10. The State aid mainly ensured that the yard was kept afloat and thus constituted mere operating aid.
  11. It serves to keep an ailing firm afloat for the time needed to work out a restructuring or liquidation plan.
  12. They are designed to be worn by children around the arms in order to keep them afloat in shallow water.
  13. However, it can not be excluded that risk capital measures might have the effect of keeping inefficient firms or sectors afloat, which would otherwise disappear.
  14. Its primary objective is to make it possible to keep an ailing firm afloat for the time needed to work out a restructuring or liquidation plan.
  15. Therefore, it was estimated that for the first half of 2006 about EUR 5 million were needed to keep the company afloat.