transcription, транскрипция: [ goʊst ]
( ghosts, ghosting, ghosted)
1.
A ghost is the spirit of a dead person that someone believes they can see or feel.
...the ghost of Marie Antoinette...
The village is haunted by the ghosts of the dead children.
N-COUNT : oft N of n
2.
The ghost of something, especially of something bad that has happened, is the memory of it.
...the ghost of anti-Americanism.
N-COUNT : N of n
3.
If there is a ghost of something, that thing is so faint or weak that it hardly exists.
He gave the ghost of a smile...
The sun was warm and there was just a ghost of a breeze from the north-west.
N-SING : N of n
4.
If a book or other piece of writing is ghosted , it is written by a writer for another person, for example a politician or sportsman, who then publishes it as his or her own work.
I published his autobiography, which was very competently ghosted by a woman journalist from the Daily Mail...
I ghosted his weekly rugby column for the Telegraph.
= ghost-write
VERB : be V-ed , V n
5.
If someone does not stand or does not have a ghost of a chance of doing something, they have very little chance of succeeding in it. ( INFORMAL )
He doesn’t stand a ghost of a chance of selling the house.
PHRASE : v PHR , with neg