HoReCa n.— «At the same time, Metro’s strategy also includes focusing on the HoReCa (hotel-restaurant-catering) segment, as this is the customer category with the highest growth potential.» —“Metro focuses on HoReCa, considers more...
spray and pray v. phr.— «Drug companies are not ready to abandon the “spray and pray” random sampling of compounds to find potential new drugs, but excitement is growing about using computers to design tomorrow’s...
dog leg n.— «Following the anticipated repeal of article 56, the potential liability of the directors of a Jersey PTC will not be assessed and determined in accordance with general principles. In Jersey, as elsewhere, it will therefore be...
bucket biologist n.— «The balance of nature in every lake is so fine that an ignorant bucket biologist has the potential to plunder and vandalize a fishery.…Bucket biologists are hard at work all over the country. Walleyes are being...
milk test n.— «The most common criteria was what people called the “milk test”—judging a potential home by the ease with which you can buy a pint of milk late at night.» —“New South-East Housing Schemes ‘Could Become Sink...
Data Valdez n.— «Information brokers and the public now find themselves in a highly publicized pickle, Homeland Security Dept. privacy chief Nuala O’Connor Kelly said, likening data spills to oil or chemical spills in their capacity to...