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wirehouse

wirehouse  n.— «Recruiters said although there has been a spike this year in disenfranchised advisers going independent, the vast majority of those on the move simply go to another “wirehouse”—a term used to describe large...

gigaliner

gigaliner  n.— «A “gigaliner,” as they call it, on trial in Germany.…The general public has a right to know that the UK government and the European Commission are considering whether to allow mega-trucks, on our roads...

thrownaway

thrownaway  n.—Gloss: a child who has been forced to leave home by a guardian or parent. «A federal study found that 45 percent of missing kids were either runaways or “thrownaways,” a term for kids kicked out of their homes by...

goose iron

goose iron  n.— «Apart from any other consideration, it’s is a psychologically healthy exercise for Bahamian people to recognize the way we once lived. At a time, for example, when we did not have things like electric steam irons and...

nog

nog  n.— «Syed’s original neighbourhood weblogs, “nogs” as he calls them, were not in vain however. Most of the information can be transferred over to the wiki.» —“Won’t you be my neighbour?” by Carrie...

gardentoolism

gardentoolism  n.— «Call a spade a spade, rather than attacking it as a manifestation of the dangerous ideology of gardentoolism.» —“Comment is free: The demagogic cliches of right and left can only make things worse” by...