sustainer n.— «Ms. Clark, 56, is a “sustainer,” in league parlance, meaning she has moved to an advisory position. “I’m an old doll. They need us,” she says of the league’s “active” members, the roughly...
Verwaltungsvereinfachungsmassnahmen n. an anti-bureaucratese, anti-bafflegab campaign. Editorial Note: Ger. Verwaltungs ‘administration’ + vereinfachungs ‘reduction’ + massnahmen ‘measures’ (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
OGA n.— «The Taguba report described how “ghost detainees” were brought to the military police (MP) unit running several jails in Iraq by OGAs (military jargon for other government agencies, often a reference to the CIA)...
stripping n.— «Stripping [specific programmes in the same slots across the week] is fine in the early evening, though we should stop transmitting Australian soaps then, and develop our own home-grown drama.» —“The shape of things to...
sub-penny quoting n. the practice of offering a decimal of a cent higher than a stock’s asking price or another buy order. Also sub-penny pricing, sub-penny trading. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
sub-penny pricing n.— «Sub-penny pricing could well occur if some are “tempted to split Mr. Lincoln into further pieces,” Grasso warned. He said “that would be tantamount to a neutron bomb” for U.S. markets and...