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beef | American Dictionary
beef noun (MEAT)
beef noun (COMPLAINT)
My beef is, how come I’m not making as much as you?
beef verb [I] (COMPLAIN)
Stop beefing about having to work late – you’re not the only one.
Phrasal verb
(Definition of beef from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of beef
beef
Why on earth is it not beefed up now, without further delay?
Clearly, the whole treaty needs beefing up very fast indeed.
Another improvement will be what might be called beefing up the chairman, and he may have to be legally qualified.
I want the scheme to help farmers to improve hedgerows to be beefed up and made much more effective.
However, it beefs up the arguments and emphasises the public need for change and to ensure standards.
I agree with those who say that local access forums have to be beefed up.
Local councils' trading standards departments have to be beefed up so that that aspect of the legislation can be effective.
The benefit will have to be beefed up again in the autumn to keep pace with inflation and people's genuine and reasonable aspirations.
The directive could, of course, have been still better and beefed up even more, for example as far as the timetables are concerned.
In the other place, the commissioner's powers were beefed up so that they could initiate inquiries.
The beefing up of the "availability for work"test with an"actively seeking work" test was opposed by the party at the time.
Will he give us a guarantee that wages councils will be beefed up to deal with injustices?
He has never beefed about it until now.
I also put forward proposals for beefing up councils, with shop-front premises and more staff.
There may be a case for beefing up the registry.
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Collocations with beef
These are words often used in combination with beef.
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Many recipes add tomatoes or canned tomato sauce, while others add beef broth and/or brandy or other distilled spirits.
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Wikipedia
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Hardness values at the proximal wall site were significantly greater on average for beef cattle claws than for those of the dairy cattle.
Decisions were taken on the basis of biased recommendations, and studies were commissioned and paid for by the beef industry itself.
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