If you achieve fame , you become very well-known .

You can describe a place as a hub of an activity when it is a very important centre for that activity.

(in transformational grammar ) a rule that makes reference to nonconsecutive stages of a derivation

A brand of a product is the version of it that is made by one particular manufacturer .

A crisis is a situation in which something or someone is affected by one or more very serious problems.

The growth of something such as an industry , organization, or idea is its development in size, wealth , or importance .

The global north consists of the richest and most industrialized countries, which are mainly in the northern part of the world.

The price of something is the amount of money that you have to pay in order to buy it.

When people talk about the global reach of a company or industry, they mean its ability to have customers in many different parts of the world.

The sales of a product are the quantity of it that is sold.

If you refer to the scale of something, you are referring to its size or extent , especially when it is very big .

a word-processing operation in which a complete computer file or set of files is searched for every occurrence of a particular word or other sequence of characters

The global south consists of the poorest and least industrialized countries, which are mainly in the southern part of the world.

Trade is the activity of buying , selling, or exchanging goods or services between people, firms , or countries.

A trend is a change or development towards something new or different.

The audience for a television or radio programme consists of all the people who watch or listen to it.

a decrease in the amount of sunlight reaching the surface of the earth, believed to be caused by pollution in the atmosphere

→ another name for global warming

A particular industry consists of all the people and activities involved in making a particular product or providing a particular service.

The meltdown of a company, organization, or system is its sudden and complete failure .

Politics are the actions or activities concerned with achieving and using power in a country or society. The verb that follows politics may be either singular or plural .

Poverty is the state of being extremely poor.

a commercial product that is marketed throughout the world under the same brand name

When there is a recovery in a country's economy , it improves.

Security refers to all the measures that are taken to protect a place, or to ensure that only people with permission enter it or leave it.

People sometimes refer to the world as a global village when they want to emphasize that all the different parts of the world form one community linked together by electronic communications , especially the internet .

Global warming is the gradual rise in the earth's temperature caused by high levels of carbon dioxide and other gases in the atmosphere .

Capitalism is an economic and political system in which property, business, and industry are owned by private individuals and not by the state.

the people or nations of the world, considered as being closely connected by modern telecommunications and as being economically , socially, and politically interdependent

A phenomenon is something that is observed to happen or exist.

The population of a country or area is all the people who live in it.

A recession is a period when the economy of a country is doing badly , for example because industry is producing less and more people are becoming unemployed .

A global positioning system is a system that uses signals from satellites to find out the position of an object . The abbreviation → GPS is also used.

a global system of U.S. navigational satellites developed to provide precise positional and velocity data and global time synchronization for air, sea, and land travel

GPS is an abbreviation for → global positioning system .

the industrialized and economically advanced countries of the world collectively

developing countries collectively

The most prosperous and industrialized parts of the world are sometimes referred to as the First World . Compare → Third World .

The countries of Africa, Asia, and South America are sometimes referred to all together as the Third World , especially those parts that are poor , do not have much power , and are not considered to be highly developed . Compare → First World .