Afloat meaning

Adjective: afloat

Pronunciation: (u’flowt)

Afloat meaning:

• Aimlessly drifting. Synonyms: adrift, directionless, plan less, rudderless
• Borne on the water or floating. Synonyms: adrift, floating, waterborne
• Covered with water. Synonyms: awash, flooded, inundated, overflowing

Quotations: Julian Casablancas – That’s nice of you to say. We’re sort of staying afloat despite not fitting into the corporate rules of commercial success. Somehow we’ve arrived somewhere cool despite not knowing where the ship was going to pop out after the storm.

Scott Brown – Corporate profits and cash flows are pretty flush, which usually supports business spending. Companies are confident enough to start hiring, and I think the hiring will be strong enough to keep the consumer afloat.

Stephen Roach – Unfortunately, the SARS effect is concentrated on Asia long the fastest-growing region in the world and the one area that essentially had been keeping the global economy afloat. To the extent that this source of global resilience is now being undermined by disease-related panic, an already bruised and battered global economy has little left to lean on.

Sung Won Sohn – That’s one of the reasons why consumers are not going on a spending spree, though they’re keeping the economic ship afloat. When higher unemployment numbers come out, that will probably rattle consumer confidence a bit.

Donnie Walsh – Our goal was to hang around where we are right now until we got everybody back. I think our team and the coaching staff have done a remarkable job keeping us afloat under the circumstances.

Sample sentences:

1. The main deck was afloat. So now that we go back home we’ve got to find a way to keep our ship afloat. In the second half of the season, every game is going to be towards gaining some playoff position.
2. Russia is afloat and chaotic.
3. You cannot sink someone else’s end of the boat and still keep your own afloat.
4. Our gradual and steady growth toward that has made it much sweeter. It’s a lot of work to stay afloat, and a lot of foresight and planning.
5. Any money that comes to this city is needed to keep us afloat.
6. Consumer spending, which has kept the economy afloat, should decline in the third quarter and lead us into a formal, albeit shallow, recession.
7. Oh my God, he was unbelievable. At one point, I thought he was our best pitcher. Kirk was a big part of keeping us afloat.
8. This one is up there though because it was different. We’ve done it with young guys before. But we stayed afloat the entire year and never lost too much ground to anybody.
9. None of this bodes well for retailers depending on strong holiday sales, nor for the entire economy, which has mostly relied on consumer spending to keep it afloat.
10. The crews of the new ships can help do some of the work that’s required to keep the ship afloat.