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[Thai Economics Library | Archives (for history)]
September 20, 2006

Overhaul

overhaul (verb) -
a. Examine carefully and make changes to improve.
b. Clean, check thoroughly, and repair if necessary.


Examples sentences:

* The tax system has undergone a complete overhaul.

* I should have overhauled the engine a year ago, now it doesn't work.

* The government wants to overhaul the training program and make it cost effective.

* Without a complete overhaul the computerised reservation system will soon cease to work.

* The economic face of country is in the midst of a complete overhaul to make the country more competitive.

* The government has called for a complete overhaul of meat-inspection programmes.

* The Soviet Union needs a thorough overhaul of its banking system.

* Emergency measures to overhaul the government may take on a permanent character.

* Parliament approved yesterday the first complete overhaul of criminal law in more than a century.

* Public sector employees are protesting against government plans to overhaul the welfare system.

* There are two board members against a planned ten-year overhaul of the loss-making company.

* A plan to overhaul the company last November prompted the worst strikes for three years.

* The chain needs to overhaul its operations, get rid of old stores and replace them with larger new ones.

* This will be the biggest overhaul of the system for 50 years.

* The organisation can survive but it will need a major overhaul.

* The factory's sole purpose is to mend and overhaul the inadequate bulldozers.

* But the new competitive environment and the need for an overhaul in the nation's banking laws come at a time when estimates of the

* Labor leaders realized that unless they agreed to a massive overhaul of work rules, they could watch more factories close down.


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