Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a collar, or something resembling a collar.
- In heraldry, same as
gorged , 2.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Wearing a collar.
- adjective (Her.) Wearing a collar; -- said of a man or beast used as a bearing when a collar is represented as worn around the neck or loins.
- adjective Rolled up and bound close with a string. See To collar beef, under
Collar , v. t.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having a
collar (or other encircling demarcation). - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
collar .
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Examples
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Gilbert Arenas watched in collared shirt and tie on the bench.
USATODAY.com 2007
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Other ways that utilities hedge are through fixed-price contracts and through so-called "collared" price contracts -- which set floor and ceiling prices.
Susan Buchanan: Moderate Fuel Prices Should Keep Heating Bills in Check Susan Buchanan 2011
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Other ways that utilities hedge are through fixed-price contracts and through so-called "collared" price contracts -- which set floor and ceiling prices.
Susan Buchanan: Moderate Fuel Prices Should Keep Heating Bills in Check Susan Buchanan 2011
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The investor is said to have "collared" the shares, limiting potential gains as well as potential losses.
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A shareholder is said to have "collared" shares when he or she sells a bullish call option, capping potential gains, while buying a protective put that limits losses if shares fall.
Monthly Moves by 'Fear Gauge' Can Be More Quirky Than Scary 2010
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The photo is Colleen with an elk calf that they captured and "collared" as part of an ongoing survival study.
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Lincoln walked to the house, borrowed the book -- "collared" it, as he expressed it -- and at the end of six days had mastered it with his own thoroughness.
The Life of Abraham Lincoln Henry Ketcham
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Jim, arriving just too late to save his own, promptly "collared" those of
A Little Bush Maid Mary Grant Bruce 1918
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Jim, arriving just too late to save his own, promptly "collared" those of Wally, leaving the last-named youth no alternative but to paddle home in the water-logged slippers – the ground being too rough and stony to admit of barefoot travelling.
A Little Bush Maid 1910
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He wondered if Sylvia would be surprised to hear that her neighbour, the fair Frenchman to whom she had been talking so familiarly, had "collared" her stakes and her winnings.
The Chink in the Armour Marie Belloc Lowndes 1907
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