The Hindu Editorial (Open and safe) – Apr 22, 2021

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The Hindu Editorial (Open and safe) – Apr 22, 2021:

vaccination (noun) – treatment with a vaccine to protect against a particular disease; immunization.
lockdown (noun) – an emergency protocol implemented by the authorities that prevents people from leaving from a place; An extended state of confinement/encirclement/isolation of a person by the authority.
address (noun) – speech, talk, discourse.
amid (preposition) – in the middle of, surrounded by; during.
raging (adjective) – wild, severe, extreme, excessive, inordinate.
storm (noun) – outburst, outbreak, eruption, surge.
avert (verb) – prevent, stop, avoid.
ramp up (phrasal verb) – increase (in amount or number).
insight (noun) – deep understanding, recognition, realization, revelation.
measure (noun) – action, step, procedure.
pace (noun) – speed.
sensible (adjective) – practical, realistic, responsible, reasonable, rational, logical.
course (noun) – plan of action, course of action, method of working, procedure/process.
open (adjective) – available, accessible, on hand.
enable (verb) – permit, allow, facilitate.
scale up (phrasal verb) – increase, expand, augment; step up, boost.
last resort (phrase) – a final course of action when all else has failed; ultimate, final, eventual action.
virtually (adverb) – practically, almost, nearly.
acknowledged (adjective) – true, valid, accepted/recognized (as important).
hindsight (noun) – understanding/realizing a situation/event after it has happened.
blow (noun) – shock, surprise; setback/misfortune.
unorganised sector/workforce/labour (noun) – unorganized sector means an enterprise owned by individuals or self-employed workers and engaged in the production or sale of goods or providing service of any kind whatsoever, and where the enterprise employs workers, the number of such workers is less than ten.
workforce (noun) – workers, employees.
vaccinate (verb) – inoculate, administer, introduce (with a vaccine to provide immunity against a disease).
containment (noun) – an act of keeping something (harmful) under control (it means quickly identifying cases of coronavirus through testing, placing infected individuals in isolation, tracking who infected persons might have been in contact with and potentially quarantining those who came into contact with infection so that the disease doesn’t continue to spread).
universalise (verb) – make (something) available for all.
effectively (adverb) – practically, virtually, in effect, almost.
floodgate (noun) – something which is restraining/holding back/stifling an outflow of something else.
open the floodgates (phrase) – to make something easier for a lot of things to happen (or) to make it possible for a lot of people to start doing something that was not permitted previously.
unregulated (adjective) – unrestricted, unchecked, uncontrollable.
vaccine (noun) – a biological preparation that improves immunity to a particular disease.
rather than (phrase) – instead of.
monopsonist (noun as modifier) – a market condition in which there is only one buyer.
procure (verb) – buy, purchase.
price-capped (adjective) – price-limited (by a government, regulators, etc.)
in place (phrase) – set up, established, arranged.
lead to (verb) – result in, cause, bring on, give rise to.
Oxford vaccine/Covishield (noun) – (ChAdOx1 nCoV-19) or (AZD1222) is a COVID-19 vaccine candidate developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca, UK Ltd. (named Covishield in India). Serum Institute of India (SII), a biotechnology company has partnered with global pharma giant AstraZeneca and Oxford University for this vaccine candidate ‘Covidshield’.
hint (verb) – insinuate, intimate, suggest, indicate.
Covaxin (noun) – India’s first indigenous COVID-19 vaccine candidate (COVAXIN) developed by a Hyderabad-based company (Bharat Biotech) in collaboration with the ICMR (The Indian Council of Medical Research).
price flexibility (noun) – a business strategy in which a product’s final price is open for negotiation based on market forces (when demand rises or supply declines, prices go up).
rush (verb) – act rapidly/hurriedly.
leave out (phrasal verb) – exclude, omit, miss out.
seek (verb) – try to obtain.
sustainable (adjective) – reasonable, sensible, well-founded (without disturbing the balance of nature and then without exhausting all of the natural resources).
wage (verb) – engage in, carry on, conduct.
call for (phrasal verb) – require, publicly ask/necessitate, demand.
decentralisation (noun) – the process of distributing or dispersing functions, powers, people or things away from a central location or authority.
regulatory authority (noun) – the government agency that is responsible for exercising autonomous dominion over some area of (human) activity in a regulatory/monitoring capacity.
outlay (noun) – expenditure, expenses, spending.
state-funded (adjective) – government-funded.
free-market (noun) – a type of economic system that is controlled by the market forces of supply and demand, as opposed to government controls that involve price-cutting monopolies. It is different from a regulated market or command economy. In the latter, a central government agency decides the supply and demand, which means the market does not operate freely. In a free market, a majority of companies and properties are owned by individuals or entities in the private sector instead of the state.
on the ground (phrase) – in a situation/place where things are happening really/practically.
overstate (verb) – exaggerate, overdo, overemphasize.
model (verb) – use as an example.
campaign (noun) – an organized effort which seeks to influence the decision-making progress within a specific group.
abdicate (verb) – reject, disown, turn down, give up, abandon (a responsibility).