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New words for the term

 

Every week, the Macmillan dictionary team search the media to find out the newest and most interesting words being used in the English language. You can find their latest BuzzWord on the www.macmillandictionary.com website. Each term we'll feature two new BuzzWords. The words for this term are:

 

Neet (n countable):

Neet stands for not in education, employment or training: a young person who has left full-time education and is not working or training.

 

e-waste (n countable): 

It’s a tempting idea: buy the shirt one day, wear it to the party, carefully repackage it the next day, take it back to the shop, get your money back. Result: you wore something new but you didn’t spend any money! If you’ve thought of doing this, or maybe you’ve even done it, then remember this is shopgrifting, which sounds frighteningly similar to something which is totally illegal: shoplifting.

 

 

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