Dictionary entry

Perkiness

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Definition

perk 1 /pɜ:k/ n ( infml ) (က) ပံုမွန္ဝင္ေငြအျပင္ အလုပ္ရွင္က ေပးေသာ အခြင့္အေရး။ Perks offered by the firm include a car and free health insurance. (ခ) ရာထူး၊ လုပ္ငန္းအရ ရရိွေသာ အက်ဳိးခံစားခြင့္။ She regards free stationery as one of the perks of the job. See also PERQUISITE perk 2 /pɜ:k/ v ❏ perk up [ PHRV ]( infml ) (က) ျပန္လည္ လန္းဆန္းရႊင္ပ်လာသည္။ He felt depressed but soon perked up when his friends arrived. (ခ) အသက္ဝင္ လႈပ္ရွားလာသည္။ ( fig ) Share prices perked up a little towards the end of the day's trading. ❏ perk sb/sth up [ IDM ] ( infml ) ၁။ လန္းဆန္းေစသည္။ A cup of coffee will perk you up. ၂။ ပိုၾကည့္ေကာင္းေစသည္။ You need a bright red scarf to perk up that grey suit. ❏ perky adj ( -ier, -iest ) ( infml ) ၁။ လန္းလန္းဆန္းဆန္းရိွ [ေသာ]။ He's still in bed, but he seems quite perky. ၂။ လူပါးဝ [ေသာ]။ a perky grin. perkiness n [U]

Examples

  1. Free theatre tickets are one of the perks of this job.
  2. At 15 I looked forward to the perks of adult life.