Quiz: "scupper" or "bolster"?
02.11.2011
The correct answer is: bolster
Australia has cut interest rates to bolster growth.
If you bolster something, you strengthen and support it.
The Reserve Bank of Australia has cut interest rates to try to bolster Australian growth amid concern that the slowing US economy and the debt crisis in Europe will damage global economic growth. This is the first cut by the Australian central bank since 2009.
To scupper means to ruin someone's chances of success or to deliberately sink your own ship.
"Arriving late for the meeting scuppered our chances of impressing the client."
"The captain tried to scupper his ship before abandoning it."
Auftrieb geben
senken
mitten in
zerschlagen; versenken
absichtlich
verlassen
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