Betekenis van:
afloat
afloat
Bijvoeglijk naamwoord
- benauwd
- covered with water
"the main deck was afloat (or awash)"
Synoniemen
afloat
Bijvoeglijk naamwoord
- stuurloos
- aimlessly drifting
Synoniemen
Voorbeeldzinnen
- There are strange rumors afloat.
- The company managed to keep afloat.
- The ship was afloat at last.
- We only just manage to keep afloat on my husband's small salary.
- maintaining inefficient firms afloat;
- Maintaining inefficient firms afloat
- By artificially keeping a company afloat, the interests of the sector are harmed.
- The primary objective of the measures is to assist a company in financial difficulty and to keep it afloat.
- The primary objective of the measures is to assist a company in financial difficulty and keep it afloat.
- The State aid mainly ensured that the yard was kept afloat and thus constituted mere operating aid.
- It serves to keep an ailing firm afloat for the time needed to work out a restructuring or liquidation plan.
- They are designed to be worn by children around the arms in order to keep them afloat in shallow water.
- 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.
- 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.
- Therefore, it was estimated that for the first half of 2006 about EUR 5 million were needed to keep the company afloat.