restart, key disputes, re-engaged

Jeff Kowalsky/Bloomberg News

Week in Review

The ‘W’ Word, Re-Engaged

By JASON DePARLE

President Obama’s stimulus package has restarted the old debate over what gets defined as the “safety net” and what gets attacked as “welfare.”

Russia, Ukraine Agree to Restart Gas Flow, E.U. Says
MOSCOW, Jan. 11 -- The European Union said it brokered an agreement between Russia and Ukraine early Sunday to resume shipments of natural gas to the continent under the watch of international observers. But analysts warned that the key disputes that caused the shutdown were left unresolved and...
(By Philip P. Pan, The Washington Post)



Journal assembled roughly 100 of the brightest minds in finance to discuss not just how to restart the global financial system, but how to reconstruct it, so both the spectacular excesses and catastrophic failures of the past decade can be avoided.

Definition

restart Show phonetics
verb [I or T]
to start something again:
Our car stalled and wouldn't restart.
Please restart your computer to complete installation.

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dispute Show phonetics
noun [C or U]
an argument or disagreement, especially an official one between, for example, workers and employers or two bordering countries:
a bitter/long-running dispute
a border dispute
a pay/legal/trade dispute
They have been unable to settle/resolve the dispute over working conditions.
The unions are in dispute with management over pay.

dispute Show phonetics
verb [I or T]
to disagree with something that someone says:
Few would dispute his status as the finest artist of the period.
The circumstances of her death have been hotly disputed.
[+ (that)] I don't dispute (that) Lucas' films are entertaining, but they haven't got much depth.

disputed Show phonetics
adjective
a disputed border/goal
disputed territory

disputable Show phonetics
adjective
not certain:
It's claimed that they produce the best athletes in the world but I think that's disputable.

disputation Show phonetics
noun [C or U] OLD USE
(a) disagreement

disputatious Show phonetics
adjective OLD USE
He's a disputatious young man (= he argues a lot).


reengage


IN BRIEF: To again put into gear.