comeback kids, broad advances

G-7 finance chiefs issued an emergency statement warning investors against pushing up the yen too much, suggesting that the U.S. and Europe, in addition to Japan, are uneasy about the currency's broad advances.


broad

adj., broad·er, broad·est.

1. Wide in extent from side to side: a broad river; broad shoulders.
2. Large in expanse; spacious: a broad lawn.
3. Having a certain width from side to side: A sidewalk three feet broad.
4. Full; open: broad daylight.
5. Covering a wide scope; general: a broad rule.
6. Liberal; tolerant: had broad views regarding social services. See synonyms at broad-minded.
7. Relating to or covering the main facts or the essential points.
8. Plain and clear; obvious: gave us a broad hint to leave.
9. Obsolete. Outspoken.
10. Vulgar; ribald: a broad joke.
11. Strikingly regional or dialectal: a broad Southern accent.
12. Linguistics. Pronounced with the tongue placed low and flat and with the oral cavity wide open, like the a in father.

n.

1. A wide flat part, as of one's hand.
2. Often Offensive Slang. A woman or girl.

adv.
Fully; completely.

[Middle English brod, from Old English brād.]

broadly broad'ly adv.
broadness broad'ness n.

broad

  

━━ a. （幅・面積の）広い; ((数値につけて)) 幅…の; 心の広い; 明るい, 明白な; なまりのある; あからさまな, 下品な (a ～ joke); 広義の, 広範囲に及ぶ, 一般的な; 大体の.

come back (FASHION) phrasal verb
If a style or a fashion comes back, it becomes popular again after being unpopular for a period of time:
Padded shoulders are coming back, apparently.
Long hair on men seems to be coming back into fashion.

comeback Show phonetics
noun [C]
a successful attempt to get power, importance or fame again after a period of having lost it:
She's trying to make a comeback with her first album for twenty years.
kid (CHILD) Show phonetics
noun [C]
1 INFORMAL a child:
He took the kids to the park while I was working.

2 INFORMAL a young person:
He was only 16, just a kid really.

3 MAINLY US INFORMAL sb's kid sister/brother someone's younger sister or brother