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Beveridge

[bev-er-ij, bev-rij]

noun

  1. Albert Jeremiah, 1862–1927, U.S. senator and historian.

  2. Sir William Henry, 1879–1963, English economist.



Beveridge

/ ˈbɛvərɪdʒ /

noun

  1. William Henry , 1st Baron Beveridge. 1879–1963, British economist, whose Report on Social Insurance and Allied Services (1942) formed the basis of social-security legislation in Britain

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This Beveridge curve represents a relationship between unemployment and job opening rates and typically slopes downwards.

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Aneisha Beveridge, from Hamptons, said that many young people had been leaving the family home much later in life in recent years because of rent rises.

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Mr Beveridge said in recent years the school had seen some of the harms from excessive smartphone use and wanted to take action.

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The brightly coloured birds were introduced to Pittencrieff Park in 1905 when philanthropist Andrew Carnegie asked his friend Henry Beveridge to bring them back to his hometown from India.

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“We know that people moved out of bigger cities and into smaller cities during the pandemic,” said Andrew Beveridge, the president of Social Explorer, a demographic firm.

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