dormant

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The firm's court-appointed receiver, Lee Richards, said the move "greatly reduced" the assets of the company, which he described as a dormant entity with no clients that served solely as a proprietary trading unit, Bloomberg reports.

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  1. adjective Lying asleep or as if asleep; inactive.
  2. adjective Latent but capable of being activated: "a harrowing experience which . . . lay dormant but still menacing” (Charles Jackson).
  3. adjective Temporarily quiescent: a dormant volcano. See Synonyms at inactive, latent.
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  • The firm's court-appointed receiver, Lee Richards, said the move "greatly reduced" the assets of the company, which he described as a dormant entity with no clients that served solely as a proprietary trading unit, Bloomberg reports. —  Bobsguide News
  • With wage pressures dormant, the Federal Reserve has the leeway to keep interest rates low in an effort to jump-start the economy. —  The Herald | HeraldOnline.com - Front
  • All of this has remained a dormant issue because the labour market was so buoyant.
  • We know that when the memory has been dormant, which is often the case, it may be awakened by the stimulus of association, of analogy, or of will, so as to reproduce the forgotten ideas and sensations which are thus again presented to the consciousness. —  Myth and Science An Essay
  • When the passing game is dormant, the Cowboys go to —  MVN
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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from present participle of dormir, to sleep, from Latin dormīre.

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  1. Early modern English also dormaunt, sometimes dormond, dormount; from Middle English dormant, dormaunt, stationary, from Old French dormant, French dormant = Spanish dormiente, durmiente = Portuguese dormente = Italian dormente, dormiente, sleeping, dormant (Spanish also as a noun, a beam, joist), from Latin dormien(t-)s, present participle of dormire, sleep: see dorm.
 

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