Vocabulary

• used to: Did regularly before, but don't do now
• crack down: To act forcefully in order to reduce crime, etc.
• tackle: To start working on a difficult problem
• crack: Attempt to achieve a goal or objective
• competition: Fighting against others to win something
• concern: To be about a particular topic
• similar: Nearly the same; alike
• regime: A system of management; a form of government
• address: Exact street location of a place
• ease: To make something less difficult, tight, stressed
• security: Department in a company in charge of protection
• administration: Act of giving e.g. medicine to a patient
• project: To predict what will happen in the future
• social: Involving activity with people, e.g. in free time
• criticize: To assess the work of others
• foreign: Being of a different place or country
• company: Good feeling from being with someone else
• limit: Point beyond which it is not possible to go
• legislation: Act or process of writing and passing laws
• bid: To propose an amount you want to pay for something
• compliance: Act of obeying a law, etc.
• harvest: Gathering crops from the fields; the crops
• staff: Employees of a company
• ban: To make something illegal or not allowed
• own: To have something as your property
• head: To hit a ball with your head in a game
• crackdown: Increased effort to enforce the law or a rule
• product: Item that can be bought
• unveil: To remove something's outer covering
• part: Division of a book
• start: First time or place that a thing exists; beginning
• mount: To attach something to something else
• dub: To add a new soundtrack to an audio recording
• store: To put things in a place for later use
• base: Place military personnel live, train, and operate
• work: The product of some artistic or literary endeavor
• global: Concerning, involving, affecting all of something
• back: Farthest from the front e.g. in a classroom
• datum: Item of factual information
• give: Degree of flexibility in something, a material
• network: Group of computers connected to each other
• pro: Reason given in support of something
• plan: Drawing of how something should be done or made
• sharply: In an angry or unfriendly manner
• clover: Small plant with three, or four, round leaves
• app: Small applications for smartphones
• locally: In the area being referred to