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eat up
verb as in to accept
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That would eat up nearly half the monthly income of a family whose income was $80,000 a year, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta’s Home Ownership Affordability Monitor.
But inside the car, I steadily fed it power as I careened into the seemingly endless Turn 3, and felt it practically eat up asphalt through a slightly winding Turn 9.
Finally, as another safeguard of financial health, we looked for companies with dividend payout ratios of no more than 60%— meaning dividend payments ate up no more than 60% of the businesses’ quarterly profits.
Finally, as another safeguard of financial health, we looked for companies with dividend payout ratios of no more than 60%— meaning dividend payments ate up no more than 60% of the businesses’ quarterly profits.
“The way you’re eating up all that chicken and drinking up all my wine, anybody would think it was your last meal.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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