Casual

Definition

casual /'kæʒuǝl/ adj ၁။ အမွတ္မထင္ျဖစ္ေသာ။ တမင္မဟုတ္ေသာ။ a casual encounter/meeting/visit. ၂။ (က) သာမန္ကာလွ်ံ ကာျဖစ္ေသာ။ a casual remark ❍ a casual invitation. (ခ) ( derog ) ေလးေလးနက္နက္ မဟုတ္ေသာ။ ဂ႐ုတစိုက္မဟုတ္ေသာ။ the company's casual attitude to office security. ❍ a casual inspection ❍ a casual glance at a book ❍ This may not be obvious to the casual observer. ၃။ ထသြား ထလာအတြက္ ေပါ့ေပါ့ပါးပါး ျဖစ္ေသာ။ a casual short-sleeved shirt. ၄။ အၿမဲတမ္းမဟုတ္ေသာ။ ပံုမွန္မဟုတ္ ေသာ။ က်ပန္း။ students looking for casual work during the holidays ❍ a casual labourer. ❍ casual sex (ie not involving a lasting relationship). ၅။ သိ႐ံု၊ ျမင္ဖူးေတြ႕ဖူး႐ံု ျဖစ္ေသာ။ a casual acquaintance. n ၁။ [C] က်ပန္းအလုပ္သမား။ ၂။ casuals [pl] ထသြားထလာ အဝတ္အစား၊ ဖိနပ္။ a pair of men's casuals. ❏ casually /'kæʒuǝli/ adv ၁။ ထသြားထလာအတြက္ ေပါ့ေပါ့ပါးပါး(ဝတ္စားသည္)။ casually dressed. ၂။ တစ္ခ်က္မွ်၊ သာမန္ကာလွ်ံကာ (ၾကည့္သည္)။ She glanced casually at the note. casualness n [U]

Examples

1. The bar has a casual low-key atmosphere.
2. The interview took place around the kitchen table and was very casual.
3. Paul tried to sound casual but I could tell something was worrying him.
4. The report notes the firm’s casual attitude towards safety procedures.
5. A casual meeting/remark
6. The disease cannot be spread by casual contact.
7. A casual labourer
8. The workforce is mainly unskilled and casual.
9. Casual employment
10. Casual filmgoers
11. Even casual readers of the business pages will be aware of Greenspan’s influence.
12. Casual friendships
13. He described himself as a casual acquaintance of the local MP.
14. [casual sex] : He was only looking for casual sex.
15. Please dress casually.
16. She glanced casually through a magazine as she waited.