Example/उदाहरण: The Centre may not takeover all of Air India’s 52,000 crore debt as part of the airline’s strategic disinvestment process and private players eyeing the national carrier are likely to be saddled with some of its outstanding loans, according to a top official at the civil aviation ministry.
1. Saddle [sad-l]=घोड़े की ज़ीन
Noun/संज्ञा: a seat for a rider on the back of a horse or other animal; a similar seat on a bicycle, tractor, etc.
Verb/क्रिया: to put a saddle on; to load or charge, as with a burden; to impose as a burden or responsibility.
Synonyms/समानार्थक शब्द: adhered, baffled, caught, fixed, frozen, glued, joined, mired, perplexed.
2. Aviation [ey-vee-ey-shuh n, av-ee-]=विमानन
Noun/संज्ञा: the design, development, production, operation, and use of aircraft, especially heavier-than-air aircraft; military aircraft.
Synonyms/समानार्थक शब्द: aeronautics, navigation, aerodynamics, flight, piloting.
Example/उदाहरण: This assumes significance in light of the unsolicited expression of interest from India’s largest low-cost airline IndiGo for taking over Air India.
3. Unsolicited [uhn-suh-lis-i-tid]=अनचाही
Adjective: given or supplied without being requested or asked for.
Synonyms/समानार्थक शब्द: spontaneous, uninvited, unwelcome, voluntary, free, freewilled, gratis, gratuitous, offered, uncalled-for.
Antonyms/विलोमार्थी: asked, invited, requested.
Example/उदाहरण: Air India has financed working capital through borrowings from a consortium of 25 banks.
4. Consortium [kuh n-sawr-shee-uh m, -tee-]=सहायता संघ
Noun/संज्ञा: a combination of financial institutions, capitalists, etc., for carrying into effect some financial operation requiring large resources of capital; any association, partnership, or union; Law. the legal right of partners in a marriage to companionship and conjugal intercourse with each other.
Synonyms/समानार्थक शब्द: conglomerate, corporation, gang, holding company, mob, monopoly, ring, syndicate, bunch, chain, combine.
Example/उदाहरण: “The new owner will take the airline’s reasonable working capital of around 4,000-5,000 crore,” another official said on condition of anonymity.
5. Anonymity [an-uh-nim-i-tee]=अनामिता
Noun/संज्ञा: the state or quality of being anonymous; an anonymous person.
Synonyms/समानार्थक शब्द: inconspicuousness, invisibility, namelessness, anonymousness.
Example/उदाहरण: “Air India’s real estate, including land and buildings, and art treasures may not be a part of the disinvestment process. It may be hived off to a shell company,” the official said.
6. Hive [hahyv]=मधुमुखी का छत्ता
Noun/संज्ञा: a shelter constructed for housing a colony of honeybees; beehive; the colony of bees inhabiting a hive; something resembling a beehive in structure or use.
Verb/क्रिया: to gather into or cause to enter a hive; to shelter as in a hive; to store up in a hive.
Synonyms/समानार्थक शब्द: amass, pick up, reap, assemble, cull, cumulate, deposit, extract, gather, glean, harvest, hive, hoard.
Antonyms/विलोमार्थी: spend, disperse, distribute, divide, plant, scatter, separate, squander, throw away, use, waste.
Example/उदाहरण: The Cabinet last week approved in-principle the strategic disinvestment of Air India and formed a group of Ministers to examine modalities of the stake sale, including selling the subsidiaries and restructuring its debts.
7. Modality [moh-dal-i-tee]=रूपात्मकता
Noun/संज्ञा: the quality or state of being modal; an attribute or circumstance that denotes mode or manner.
Synonyms/समानार्थक शब्द: method, procedure, process, manner, style, technique, tone.
8. Subsidiary [suh b-sid-ee-er-ee]=सहायक
Adjective: serving to assist or supplement; auxiliary; supplementary; subordinate or secondary.
Noun/संज्ञा: a subsidiary thing or person; subsidiary company.
Synonyms/समानार्थक शब्द: addendum, appendix, addition, adjunct, affix, arm, attachment, ell, subsidiary.
Antonyms/विलोमार्थी: base, lessening, subtraction.
Example/उदाहरण: An anguished farewell to austerity.
9. Anguished [ang-gwisht]=दुखी
Adjective: feeling, showing, or accompanied by anguish; resulting from or produced by anguish.
Synonyms/समानार्थक शब्द: distressed, heartbroken, cheerless, dejected, depressed, despairing, devastated, down, heartsick, heavyhearted, hurting.
10. Austerity [aw-ster-i-tee]=मितव्ययिता
Noun/संज्ञा: austere quality; severity of manner, life, etc.; sternness; strict economy.
Synonyms/समानार्थक शब्द: rigor, acerbity, asperity, astringence, coldness, exactness, formality, formalness, gravity, grimness, hardness, harshness, inclemency.
Antonyms/विलोमार्थी: informality, kindness, mildness, unimportance, blandness, calmness, elaborateness, extravagance, gentility, indulgence.
