squishy

squishy
 adj.β€” Β«he problem in valuing a business is that an entrepreneurial company’s key assets often are, to use a nontechnical term, squishy.Β» β€”β€œThe Number Cruncher Versus the Vision Guy” by Alison Stein Wellner Inc. (US) Jan., 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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