"Record alliance revenues for"

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Hi,Could you tell me what the underlined part means? Since there's no context and the sentence is too short for me to even guess, I'm not sure how I should read it.oneworld revenues 2011: Record alliance revenues for oneworldThank you,m

CalifJim · Accepted Answer

1. Look up "alliance" in a dictionary.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/alliance

You'll find that it is an association of several entities working together for a common goal.

2. Look up "revenue" in a dictiionary.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/revenue

You'll find that it's money. It's the income that a business entity receives.

3. Look up "record" (adjective) in a dictionary.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/record

You'll find that it's the highest value ever seen for a given phenomenon.

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4. oneworld (surprisingly, not capitalized, but with bold font for the first three letters) is a sort of brand name. It is the name of an alliance of airlines.

oneworld revenues 2011 therefore means the money taken in by the airline alliance called "oneworld" in the year 2011.

record alliance revenues for oneworld means that the income of the airline association known as oneworld is (so far) higher in 2011 than in any other year before 2011.

You should now be able to read most of the article here with better understanding:

http://ftnnews.com/aviation/12774-record-alliance-revenues-for-oneworld.html

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You have to get used to using a dictionary!

CJ

Mitsuo23 · Answer

Thank you CJ, always.

Actually I use four english-english dictionaries but when sentences are short, enoguh context is not given, I could read them in many ways. This time I couldn't be sure how I should take this "record," and wthout fixing its meaing the suceeding words make no sense to me, unfortunately.

Thank you for your help again!

m

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