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    abroad


    1. The Rockasaur's trucks have an eight foot wheelbase, so most streets are one way when it's abroad


    2. they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd


    3. During the time he was abroad, he completed graduate and doctoral studies, receiving a Ph


    4. By Monday morning, Iain had worked out what he was going to say to his boss – that James had been offered a revolutionary treatment for his migraines somewhere abroad that meant Iain had to resign from his job, asking for compassionate leave to follow James to where he was to receive this ‘special’ treatment


    5. How? It is because when you examine the life of Paul and the words that he wrote to the Churches abroad, you find that his character is so Christ-like that we must conclude he and Christ were indeed one


    6. They all climbed abroad Ethereead


    7. Pantelis rushed to be by her side from somewhere abroad, but she died before he arrived


    8. I was on my first job abroad


    9. Take a trip close to home or travel abroad to experience international fly fishing


    10. It only happens abroad

    11. used for short-wave communication, both within Britain and abroad,


    12. ‘We haven’t been able to make contact with his family, he has no brothers or sisters and his parents are abroad somewhere, we haven’t been able to trace them yet


    13. ‘Oh, what sort of irons?’ … he couldn’t be going abroad again … could he?


    14. Spelman was to leave for the appointments arranged on the continent as a matter of business, and the ulterior purpose of the Spelman's trip abroad


    15. of people abroad (considering the hour and the weather),


    16. After I had found by experience the ill consequences of being abroad in the rain, I took care to furnish myself with provisions beforehand, that I might not be obliged to go out, and I sat within doors as much as possible during the wet months


    17. The increase in the wages of labour necessarily increases the price of many commodities, by increasing that part of it which resolves itself into wages, and so far tends to diminish their consumption, both at home and abroad


    18. the bad effects of high wages in raising the price, and thereby lessening the sale of their goods, both at home and abroad


    19. It will, therefore, be sent abroad, in order to seek that profitable employment which it cannot find at home


    20. But the paper cannot go abroad; because at a distance from the banks which issue it, and from the country in which payment of it can be exacted by law, it will not be received in common payments

    21. Gold and silver, therefore, to the amount of eight hundred thousand pounds, will be sent abroad, and the channel of home circulation will remain filled with a million of paper instead of a million of those metals which filled it before


    22. That the greater part of the gold and silver which being forced abroad by those operations of banking, is employed in purchasing foreign goods for home consumption, is, and must be, employed in purchasing those of this second kind, seems not only probable, but almost unavoidable


    23. The demand of idle people, therefore, for foreign goods, being the same, or very nearly the same as before, a very small part of the money which, being forced abroad by those operations of banking, is employed in purchasing foreign goods for home consumption, is likely to be employed in purchasing those for their use


    24. Should the circulating paper at any time exceed that sum, as the excess could neither be sent abroad nor be employed in the circulation of the country, it must immediately return upon the banks, to be exchanged for gold and silver


    25. Many people would immediately perceive that they had more of this paper than was necessary for transacting their business at home; and as they could not send it abroad, they would immediately demand payment for it from the banks


    26. When this superfluous paper was converted into gold and silver, they could easily find a use for it, by sending it abroad; but they could find none while it remained in the shape of paper


    27. But as that coin will not be allowed to lie idle, it must, in one shape or another, be sent abroad, in order to find that profitable employment which it cannot find at home; and this continual exportation of gold and silver, by enhancing the difficulty, must necessarily enhance still farther the expense of the bank, in finding new gold and silver in order to replenish those coffers, which empty themselves so very rapidly


    28. The gold coin which was paid out, either by the Bank of England or by the Scotch banks, in exchange for that part of their paper which was over and above what could be employed in the circulation of the country, being likewise over and above what could be employed in that circulation, was sometimes sent abroad in the shape of coin, sometimes melted down and sent abroad in the shape of bullion, and sometimes melted down and sold to the Bank of England at the high price of four pounds an ounce


    29. It was the newest, the heaviest, and the best pieces only, which were carefully picked out of the whole coin, and either sent abroad or melted down


    30. At home, and while they remained in the shape of coin, those heavy pieces were of no more value than the light ; but they were of more value abroad, or when melted down into bullion at home

    31. Theoton was leaving on another trip abroad


    32. to earn their living abroad


    33. Lady Phyllis had waited until she knew her husband would be traveling abroad


    34. had a stronger impact abroad than in my country


    35. marginalized, or leave abroad


    36. The interest of whoever possesses it requires that it should be employed; but having no employment at home, it will, in spite of all laws and prohibitions, be sent abroad, and employed in purchasing consumable goods, which may be of some use at home


    37. deposited the money abroad, and on the other


    38. When the produce of any particular branch of industry exceeds what the demand of the country requires, the surplus must be sent abroad, and exchanged for something for which there is a demand at home


    39. The surplus part of them, therefore, must be sent abroad, and exchanged for something for which there is a demand at home


    40. In every period, indeed, of every society, the surplus part both of the rude and manufactured produce, or that for which there is no demand at home, must be sent abroad, in order to be exchanged for something for which there is some demand at home

    41. But whether the capital which carries this surplus produce abroad be a foreign or a domestic one, is of very little importance


    42. An inland country, naturally fertile and easily cultivated, produces a great surplus of provisions beyond what is necessary for maintaining the cultivators; and on account of the expense of land carriage, and inconveniency of river navigation, it may frequently be difficult to send this surplus abroad


    43. The corn which could with difficulty have been carried abroad in its own shape, is in this manner virtually exported in that of the complete manufacture, and may easily be sent to the remotest corners of the world


    44. This, they say, cannot be done, but by sending abroad money to pay them with ; and a nation cannot send much money abroad, unless it has a good deal at home


    45. They represented, secondly, that this prohibition could not hinder the exportation of gold and silver, which, on account of the smallness of their bulk in proportion to their value, could easily be smuggled abroad


    46. They do not always send more money abroad than usual, but they buy upon credit, both at home and abroad, an unusual quantity of goods, which they send to some distant market, in hopes that the returns will come in before the demand for payment


    47. The far greater part is circulated and consumed among themselves; and even of the surplus which is sent abroad, the greater part is generally destined for the purchase of other foreign goods


    48. It should as readily occur, that the quantity of gold and silver is, in every country, limited by the use which there is for those metals ; that their use consists in circulating commodities, as coin, and in affording a species of household furniture, as plate; that the quantity of coin in every country is regulated by the value of the commodities which are to be circulated by it; increase that value, and immediately a part of it will be sent abroad to purchase, wherever it is to be had, the additional quantity of coin requisite for circulating them : that the quantity of plate is regulated by the number and wealth of those private families who choose to indulge themselves in that sort of magnificence; increase the number and wealth of such families, and a part of this increased wealth will most probably be employed in purchasing, wherever it is to be found, an additional quantity of plate ; that to attempt to increase the wealth of any country, either by introducing or by detaining in it an


    49. A nation may purchase the pay and provisions of an army in a distant country three different ways ; by sending abroad either, first, some part of its accumulated gold and silver ; or, secondly, some part of the annual produce of its manufactures ; or, last of all, some part of its annual rude produce


    50. By the great number of people who are maintained abroad, fewer are maintained at home














































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    Synonyms for "abroad"

    abroad overseas afield away distant removed at large everywhere

    "abroad" definitions

    in a foreign country


    to or in a foreign country


    far away from home or one's usual surroundings


    in a place across an ocean