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  • social dumping — the practice of allowing employers to lower wages and reduce employees' benefits in order to attract and retain employment and investment
  • social evening — a social gathering for the purpose of promoting companionship, communal activities, etc
  • social housing — Social housing is housing which is provided for rent or sale at a fairly low cost by housing associations and local councils.
  • social sharing — the activity of sharing photos, videos, links, etc., on a social-media website, within an interactive application, or through other online channels.
  • social tagging — the practice of generating electronic tags or keywords by users rather than specialists as a way to classify and describe online content: Social tagging can enhance students' access to online collections of art.
  • sophisticating — a sophisticated person.
  • sorting office — postal
  • sorting tracks — the part of a railroad yard used for the final sorting of cars from a classification yard.
  • soul-searching — the act or process of close and penetrating analysis of oneself, to determine one's true motives and sentiments.
  • sounding-block — a small block of wood for rapping with a gavel.
  • sowing machine — a machine that scatters seeds on land so that they may grow
  • sparring match — a practice boxing match
  • speaking clock — a telephone service that gives a precise verbal statement of the correct time
  • speaking voice — a person's normal voice in which they speak
  • speech-reading — the act or process of determining the intended meaning of a speaker by utilizing all visual clues accompanying speech attempts, as lip movements, facial expressions, and bodily gestures, used especially by people with impaired hearing.
  • spine-chilling — very frightening or horrifying.
  • spitting cobra — any cobra or cobralike snake, especially the ringhals, that sprays venom at the eyes of approaching animals.
  • spring balance — a device in which an object to be weighed is attached to the end of a helical spring, the extension of which indicates the weight of the object on a calibrated scale
  • spring chicken — a young chicken, especially a broiler or fryer.
  • square-dancing — the activity of taking part in a square dance
  • starting block — a device used by runners, especially sprinters, for increasing their speed off the mark, consisting of a metal or wooden frame, usually secured to the ground at both ends, with adjustable, triangular-shaped blocks on each side for bracing the feet.
  • starting price — gambling odds
  • stay stitching — a line of stitches made in the seam allowance to prevent the edges from stretching
  • steam cracking — Steam cracking is the main method of breaking down large molecules of hydrocarbons, in which a gaseous or liquid hydrocarbon is diluted with steam and then heated.
  • steeplechasing — a horse race over a turf course furnished with artificial ditches, hedges, and other obstacles over which the horses must jump.
  • steganographic — of, or pertaining to, steganography
  • stegocephalian — an extinct, pre-Jurassic amphibian
  • sticking place — Also called sticking point. the place or point at which something stops and holds firm.
  • sticking point — a point, detail, or circumstance causing or likely to cause a stalemate or impasse: The bill would have gone through the Senate quickly but for one sticking point.
  • sticky fingers — an inclination or tendency to steal or pilfer
  • stinking cedar — an evergreen tree, Torreya taxifolia, of the yew family, native to Florida, having rank-smelling foliage and dark-green, egg-shaped fruit.
  • stirling cycle — a highly efficient thermodynamic cycle in which air or an inert gas is compressed and expanded
  • stock watering — the creation of more new shares in a company than is justified by its assets
  • stocking frame — a type of knitting machine
  • stopping place — a place where vehicles may stop temporarily
  • straight chain — an open chain of atoms, usually carbon, with no side chains attached to it.
  • straight-chain — an open chain of atoms, usually carbon, with no side chains attached to it.
  • straining arch — an arch for resisting thrusts, as in a flying buttress.
  • striking price — in an option contract, the specified price at which a stock, commodity, etc. may be bought or sold; the price at which an investor can exercise profitably a put or call
  • strip cropping — the growing of different crops on alternate strips of ground that usually follow the contour of the land, a recourse to minimize erosion.
  • subcontracting — outsourcing of contract work
  • subgenerically — in a subgeneric manner; in a way relating to a subgenus
  • submachine gun — a lightweight automatic or semiautomatic gun, fired from the shoulder or hip.
  • sucking diesel — doing very well; successful
  • supplicatingly — in a pleading manner
  • sweeping score — a line at each end of the rink parallel to the foot score and extending through the center of the tee.
  • switch selling — a system of selling, now illegal in Britain, whereby potential customers are attracted by a special offer on some goods but the salesman's real aim is to sell other more expensive goods instead
  • tacking stitch — a long, loose, temporary stitch used in dressmaking, etc
  • teaching staff — those members of staff in a school, college, or university who teach
  • telangiectasis — chronic dilatation of the capillaries and other small blood vessels.
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