pep

Word family

pep1 /pep/ verb (pepped, pepping)

1 pep somebody/something ↔ up phrasal verbphr v informalMORE THAN BEFORE to make something or someone more active or interesting 使…更活跃[更有意思]

The team needs a few new players to pep it up.

那支球队需要一些新人来增加活力。

Examples from the Corpus

pep• This was the most encouragement the boy got there, and it proved not enough to pep up his dismal sales figures.• Lower interest rates designed to pep up the corporate sector threaten to add more fuel to the consumer boom.

pep2 noun [uncountableU]

1 informalENERGETIC physical energy 精力，活力

an enthusiastic player, full of pep

一位满腔热情、精力充沛的球员

→ pep talk

Examples from the Corpus

pep• In Harrogate I was to meet my editor for a pep talk.• Rubin himself appeared on stage for a pep talk, a short and stocky 40ish fellow in business blues.• Since I am not a person whose anxiety diminishes at the prospect of certain failure, I gave myself a pep talk.• A pep talk was all it took.• His exercise routine keeps him full of pep.• This is not just a smarmy pep talk but an unflinching discussion of real angst and a real adjustment process.• The metro editor sent me to cover a soccer team pep rally at Columbia University.• I wondered what they said in there, what pep talks were handed out.

PEPn /pep/ noun

n1.(Personal Equity Plan) a type of savings plan introduced by the British government in the 1980s, which allows people to buy small amounts of shares in British companies without having to pay tax on the profits they make by doing this. PEPs were introduced to encourage ordinary people to buy shares. A new savings plan called the ‘ isa’ replaced PEPs in 1999.

From Longman Business Dictionary

PEPPEP /pep/ noun [countableC]FINANCE

Personal Equity Plan; an investment plan introduced by the British government in 1987 to encourage ordinary people to own shares and invest in industry by allowing them to not pay any tax on the money made. In April 1999 PEPs were replaced by ISAs

Origin pep2

(1900-2000) pepper

pep1 verbpep2 nounPEPn noun

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