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from The Century Dictionary.

  • As regards friction.

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Examples

  • Other people may be "frictionally" unemployed, as a result of their freedom to change their jobs.

    What We Are Doing and What You Can Do About Employment 1960

  • In fact, the figure encompasses millions who are between jobs (the "frictionally" uninsured), others who are eligible for government health programs but are not enrolled, those who could reasonably afford health insurance but go without, and illegal immigrants.

    Claremont.org 2009

  • Io "" gets stretched, pulled and stretched back and forth, so it's frictionally heated, like pulling a piece of metal, '' says Alfred McEwen, a Galileo imaging team member from the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory at the University of Arizona.

    Jupiter Steals The Show 2008

  • The inner surface is frictionally attached to the elevation hub

    FreshPatents.com: Notable Patent Applications - 07/01/2010 2010

  • As disclosed in the Kissinger patent, "the pull rod 25 for entering the upper channel [is] frictionally grasped between typically two hollow rubber frictional pad members 30, 31."

    Promote the Progress - Patent case bibliographic summaries 2009

  • Thus, Keynes lambasted Pigou for allegedly holding the "conviction … that money makes no real difference except frictionally and that the theory of unemployment can be worked out … as being based on 'real' exchanges."

    Mises Dailies 2009

  • The conviction, which runs, for example, through almost all Professor Pigou's work, that money makes no real difference except frictionally and that the theory of production and employment can be worked out (like Mill's) as being based on 'real' exchanges with money introduced perfunctorily in a later chapter, is the modern version of the classical tradition.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2009

  • I think she would be considered frictionally unemployed at that point rather than cyclically unemployed.

    Answerbag: Latest Questions in Question Categories 2009

  • The conviction, which runs, for example, through almost all Professor Pigou's work, that money makes no real difference except frictionally and that the theory of production and employment can be worked out (like

    The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money 2003

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