purse
/pəːs/
US pronunciation
American sound/pəːs/
purse
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- Final e often stays silent
US voice -> purse
Myanmar meaning
(n) ပိုက်ဆံအိတ်
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purse /pɜ:s/ n
၁။ [C] (အထူးသဖြင့် အကြွေထည့်ရန်) ပိုက်ဆံအိတ် ကလေး။ She took a coin from her purse and gave it to the child. Compare WALLET
၂။ [sing] အသုံးစရိတ်။ excursions to suit every purse ❍ Should spending on the arts be met out of the public purse? See also PRIVY PURSE
၃။ [C] (sport) ဆုငွေ။ fighting for a purse of $500,000.
၄။ [C] (US ) = HANDBAG ❍ LUGGAGE
v နှုတ်ခမ်းကို (အိတ်ရှုံ့အဝကဲ့သို့)စုဝိုင်းထားသည်။ Her lips were pursed in concentration/ disapproval.
❏ purse-strings n [pl] ငွေသုံးစွဲပုံ။ အသုံးအစွဲ။ ဘဏ္ဍာရေး။ get a tighter grip on the purse-strings ❍ The government controls/ holds the purse-strings.
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prize, reward, winnings, takings, award; winnings, bag, billfold, bursa, carryall, close, clutch, cockle, coffers, compress, contract, crease, exchequer, frame, funds, gift, handbag, hide, knit, leather, lizard, means, money, moneybag, pocket, pocketbook, poke, pouch, present, press, press together, pucker, receptacle, resources, reticule, ruffle, sack, squeeze, stake, tighten, treasury, wallet, wealth, wherewithal, wrinkle
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