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2009.03.03

Yesterday we were moving and shaking. Today we're crunching. Business English has never been this brutal!

Today's Lesson
CRUNCH (numbers)   処理する、計算する

Explanation

  • To crunch numbers, data, etc., is to process them, for example, by doing calculations or analyzing them using statistics.

    When talking about numbers, we call this activity number crunching.
  • 数字やデータなどについて crunch と言うと、計算したり、統計値を用いて解析したりして処理する、という意味になります。

    数字についてこのような処理を行うことを number crunching と言います。

CRUNCH (numbers)

examples

  1. After we crunched the numbers, we found out that our monthly mortgage payments would be less than what we're paying for rent.
  2. Our new research facility has a roomful of state-of-the-art supercomputers capable of crunching vast (= very large) amounts of data.
  3. I'm a business owner, so my taxes can get pretty complicated. That's why I hire a tax accountant to do all the number crunching for me.

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