Definitions
Wiktionary
- v. Simple past tense and past participle of orient.
- adj. having a specific orientation
WordNet 3.0
- adj. adjusted or located in relation to surroundings or circumstances; sometimes used in combination
Examples
“There were notable drops in short positions for a number of the big ETFs and I-shares, which might be more indicative of short-term oriented trading," said Mr. Noland.”
“When markets are more volatile and the economy is troubled, boards of directors are more inclined to reach accommodations with short-term oriented, activist hedge funds," said Scott Barshay , managing partner in the corporate department of law firm Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP's, which generally represents companies, not activist investors.”
“As long as the level of economic activity remains so clearly depressed — people unemployed, office space unrented, factories not working — then policy needs to remain oriented on spurring the renewed utilization of the people and facilities currently sitting idle.”
“Costly ad hoc measures should be replaced by rule-based, medium- to long-term oriented "Ordnungspolitik.”
“Funny that the GOP and far right always are talking about FAMILY VALUES but when something very family oriented is posted about President Obama they moan and whine about it.”
“A quick way to get oriented is to visit the Auto Dealers Caring for Kids Foundation Welcome Center on the second floor.”
“When the average investor has become short-term oriented, it pays off to extend your own investment horizon and vice versa.”
The Wall Street Journal: Van de Weg on Contrarian Stock Picks
“Even while grousing that the market is too short-term oriented, these experts think they can beat it by being even more short-term oriented themselves.”
The Wall Street Journal: High Trading Is Bad News For Investors
“Pinafore Acquisitions Ltd., a consortium created for the purchase, said it will support Tomkins's current strategy of geographic expansion, organic growth in its core U.S. market, and strategic acquisitions, and that it believes that the next stage of Tomkins's development would be best achieved under private ownership, with long-term oriented shareholders such as Onex and CPPIB.”
“And as a symptom of these continuing problems, see the latest round on executive pay at banks -- we're back to cash and other short-term oriented payouts.”
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Psychology
Chapter 1
rigorous, occurrence, maze, divers, intellectual, expansion, all in all, sensation, introspection, radical, orientation, nurture and 174 more...
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EN - academic vocabulary
Use these and get promoted
abandon, abandonment, abnormally, abstract, abstraction, abstractly, abstracts, academia, academic, academically, academics, academies and 3119 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
abaca, abdominal, abrasive, absorbent, absorber, accelerator, accessory, account book, accumulator, acebutolol, acetaldehyde, acetamide and 4515 more...
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TECH - web application frameworks
limit, pack, automatic, HTTP, database, poi, event, coverage, core, hibernate, function, product and 310 more...
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SCIE - graph theory
morphism, preorder, diagram, vector, quiver, functor, ancestor, successor, parent, simple, source, embedding and 423 more...
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feeling words
twitterpated, loquacious, ambiguous, pensive, sluggish, anxious, adventurous, curious, abandoned, absent-minded, abrasive, abused and 653 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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