TTX Vocabulary

India said on Monday it had foiled an attempt by Chinese troops to change the status quo on their disputed and ill-defined border in a fresh flare-up between the two nuclear-armed countries. “On the night of August 29/30, 2020, PLA troops violated the previous consensus arrived at during military and diplomatic engagements during the ongoing standoff in Eastern Ladakh and carried out provocative military movements to change the status quo,” the Indian army said in a statement. It said Indian soldiers foiled the Chinese bid to “unilaterally change facts on the ground”. There was no immediate comment from China. For months, troops have been locked in a faceoff in the western Himalayas where both sides accuse the other of violating the Line of Actual Control, or the de facto border. In June, 20 Indian soldiers were killed during a clash in the Galwan valley, following which the two sides agreed to pull back . But despite several rounds of talks, troops remain faced off at other poi...

Oxford Learners [uncountable, countable] 1. ​permission to leave your duties for a period of time, especially for soldiers working in a foreign country The plane was full of soldiers going home on furlough. a six-week furlough ​ 2. (North American English) permission for a prisoner to leave prison for a period of time He was released on a weekend furlough. The prisoner failed to return from a furlough.

Oxford Learners (plural redundancies) ​[uncountable, countable, usually plural] (British English) the situation when somebody has to leave their job because there is no more work available for them Thousands of factory workers are facing redundancy. to accept/take voluntary redundancy (= to offer to leave your job) the threat of compulsory redundancies All members of staff are entitled to redundancy payments. 200 workers have been issued with redundancy notices.