• A ratchet is a mechanism by which investors provide management with an incentive.
• She expects inflation to ratchet down by one percentage point.
• Their chief analyst is ratcheting down expectations for the third quarter because of the weak employment data.
• Environmental standards were ratcheted up to meet public demands for clean water.
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The sale has been rewarding for the chief executive, whose original 20% stake grew to 30% under a ratchet arrangement.
Tightening the interest-rate ratchet to control inflation would risk tipping the economy into a nasty downturn.
ratchet spanner — гаечный ключ с трещоткой
the upward ratchet of oil prices — рост цен на нефть
Англо-русский строительный словарь. — М.: Русский Язык.С.Н.Корчемкина, С.К.Кашкина, С.В.Курбатова.1995.
Англо-русский строительный словарь.Академик.ру.2011.
• I smell a ___, ___
• Escalate, with up
• Garage tool
• Increase gradually, with up
• Increase in increments, with up
• Move by degrees
• Pawl engager
• Pawl partner
• Shop tool
• Sprocket
• Tightening tool
• Toothed bar
• Toothed wheel
• Mechanical device consisting of a toothed wheel or rack engaged with a pawl that permits it to move in only one direction
ratchet spanner - гаечный ключ с трещоткой
1. храповик, трещотка
~ spanner - гаечный ключ с трещоткой
2. собачка
храповой механизм
2
зубчатый останов; храповое колесо
- price ratchets in oligopolies
- fountain ratchet