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margin of profit particularly
A Better-Class American Grocery Interior Showing the coffee bins in orderly array, and the electric coffee grinder Profits and Costs Because of its influence on other grocery items, coffee can often be sold at a close margin of profit, particularly if a competitor's store or wagons are cutting into a grocer's neighborhood trade.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

meditātus opīnātus pactus partītus
Some of the commonest of these participles are: adeptus , commentus , complexus , cōnfessus , ēmentītus , expertus , meditātus , opīnātus , pactus , partītus , testātus , &c., &c. 252 MOOD.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

memory of past pleasures
The first sting inflicted by this cruel worm will be the memory of past pleasures.
— from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

my own private person
Nevertheless, as I conceive it,—and let me speak now confidentially, as it were, and merely in my own private person,—it clashes with other truths of mine whose benefits I hate to give up on its account.
— from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James

much of particular persons
[141] Hence too, as well as from other sources, comes that feeling which haunts us in King Lear , as though we were witnessing something universal,—a conflict not so much of particular persons as [263] of the powers of good and evil in the world.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

men of peculiar physical
So far as this is the case we must use the Utilitarian method to ascertain how far persons in special circumstances require a morality more specially adapted to them than Common Sense is willing to concede: and also how far men of peculiar physical or mental constitution ought to be exempted from ordinary rules, as has sometimes been claimed for men of genius, or men of intensely emotional nature, or men gifted with more than usual prudence and self-control.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

means of production Produktionsmöglichkeiten
Privatangelegenheiten private affairs Privatbank private bank Privatbankier (US) individual banker Privatbesitz private property private Körperschaft private corporation private Krankenversicherung private health insurance private Spareinlage private deposit private Vereinbarung; private Abmachung private arrangement privater Besitz private property privater Sektor der Wirtschaft private sector of the economy privater Verbrauch private consumption privates Darlehen personal loan privates Fernsehen; unabhängiges Fernsehen independent television Privatgespräch private call Privatkonto private account Privatsektor private sector Privatunternehmen privately owned concern Privatunternehmen; freie Wirtschaft private enterprise privatwirtschaftliches Risiko commercial risk privilegiert privileged privilegierte Bevölkerung privileged population privilegierte Klassen privileged classes pro Kopf per capita Probe trial Probeabonnement trial subscription Probebefragung pilot test Probebilanz trial balance Probeexemplar advance copy Probeexemplar specimen copy Probeexemplar; Gratisexemplar specimen copy Probeinterview pretest interview Probelast test load Problem problem Problem lösen solve a problem problematisch problematic Produkt product Produktanalyse product analysis Produktauswahl product choice Produktauswahl range of products Produktenbörse commodity exchange Produktenbörse produce exchange Produktentwicklung development of a product Produktentwicklung product development Produktentwicklungsleiter product development manager Produktgestalter product designer Produktgestaltung product design Produktion production Produktion; Ausbringung output Produktionsablauf production flow Produktionsbestgestaltung production engineering Produktionsdaten manufacturing data Produktionseinschränkung limitation of production Produktionserleichterung facilitation of production Produktionsfaktor factor of production Produktionsfaktoren factors of production Produktionsfaktoren production factors Produktionsgemeinkisten production overheads Produktionsgenossenschaft producers' cooperative Produktionsgesellschaft manufacturing company Produktionsgüter capital goods Produktionsgüter industrial goods Produktionsindex index of production Produktionskapazität production capacity Produktionskosten cost of production Produktionskostenvoranschlag production estimate Produktionskurve production curve Produktionsleistung manufacturing efficiency Produktionsmittel means of production Produktionsmöglichkeiten production facilities Produktionsplanung production planning Produktionsprämie production bonus Produktionssteigerung rise in output Produktionsvorgang; Herstellungsablauf production process Produktionszahlen output figures Produktionszeit time of production produktiv productive produktive Arbeit productive labour produktive Arbeit productive work produktive Bevölkerung productive population produktive Tätigkeiten productive operations Produktivität productivity Produktivität der Arbeit; Effektivität efficiency of labour Produktivitätsfaktor agent of productivity Produktivitätssteigerung rise in productivity Produktmanagement product management Produktmanager product executive Produktprofil product personality Produktprofil product profile Produktwerbung product advertising Produzent producer professionell professional Profite gainings Proforma pro forma Proformarechnung pro forma invoice Prognose forecasting Prognose prognosis Prognose der Einnahmen cash forecast Programm (Br.)
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

Multitudes of People passing
I see Multitudes of People passing over it, said I, and a black Cloud hanging on each End of it.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

measure of possible pangs
She came back, even for her measure of possible pangs and aches in him, to her old sense that he was naturally plated and steeled, armed essentially for aggression.
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

made on photogelatin plates
Changes can not be made on photogelatin plates except by making over the corrected parts.
— from The Preparation of Illustrations for Reports of the United States Geological Survey With Brief Descriptions of Processes of Reproduction by John L. Ridgway

mason or parish priest
It expresses truthfully neither our wants nor our feelings, and we ought not to be surprised how very unsatisfactory every modern building really is, even when executed by the most talented architects as compared with the productions of our village mason or parish priest at an age when men sought only to express clearly what they felt strongly, and sought to do it only in their natural mother tongue, untrammelled by the fetters of a dead or familiar foreign form of speech.”
— from The Eve of the Reformation Studies in the Religious Life and Thought of the English people in the Period Preceding the Rejection of the Roman jurisdiction by Henry VIII by Francis Aidan Gasquet

my own private property
The adventurous keel above referred to was not, as you know, my own private property.
— from Six Months at the Cape by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

means of producing phenomena
There is no medium that I have ever met, or even heard of, that has not at times (at all events) resorted to fraudulent means of producing phenomena.
— from Ghostly Phenomena by Elliott O'Donnell

measure of public peace
In Germany and Spain it lasted longer; but the various associations for maintaining tranquillity in the former country had considerably diminished its violence before the great national measure of public peace adopted under [Pg 377] Maximilian.
— from View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 by Henry Hallam

meant only pleasantly plodding
Henceforth, for them the game meant only pleasantly plodding onward along paths already marked out.
— from Jewel Weed by Alice Ames Winter

motive of Pippa Passes
In that same wood beyond Dulwich to which allusion has already been made, the germinal motive of "Pippa Passes" flashed upon the poet.
— from Life of Robert Browning by William Sharp


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