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(obsolete) An act of abetting; of helping; of giving aid.
n
(economics) The capability to produce more of a given product using the same quantity or less of a given resource than a competing entity.
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The act of achieving or performing; a successful performance; accomplishment.
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Alternative form of acquihire [An acquisition of a company to recruit its employees, rather than for its products or services.]
n
(business) The imitation of an aspect of another business where it is seen to excel, such as in supply-chain management or customer service.
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(management, operations) The percentage of the capacity of a device or system that is being used productively.
n
The act or result of compromising.
v
(transitive) To breach (a security system).
v
Obsolete form of control. [(transitive) To exercise influence over; to suggest or dictate the behavior of.]
v
Obsolete form of control. [(transitive) To exercise influence over; to suggest or dictate the behavior of.]
adj
Provided or furnished with something.
n
(obsolete) use, practice, action, execution
n
(customer support) The reassignment of a difficult customer problem to someone whose job is dedicated to handling such cases.
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Obsolete spelling of exercise [(countable) Any activity designed to develop or hone a skill or ability.]
n
A setting in action or practicing; employment in the proper mode of activity; exertion; application; use.
v
To make use of, to apply, especially of something non-material.
n
An episode of sharp instability in the global or a local financial system in which financial assets lose a significant proportion of their value, often caused by the bursting of an economic bubble.
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(intransitive) To pay a fine.
n
Action of the verb function.
adv
In terms of gain or increase.
n
The idea that, when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure; originally, "as soon as the government attempts to regulate any particular set of financial assets, these become unreliable as indicators of economic trends".
v
To actively recruit executive personnel.
n
The state of being hired, or having a job; employment.
n
The act of hiring something.
adv
(obsolete) Into use, into practice.
n
(archaic or dialectal, Scotland) A newcomer or arrival; an incomer.
adj
Of or relating to incursion.
n
An incoming payment; income.
v
To hire or let in periods of service.
n
An offer to give someone employment
v
To acquire, or attempt to acquire knowledge or an ability to do something.
n
(by extension) Any influence which is compounded or used to gain an advantage.
v
(archaic) To help oneself.
v
(obsolete) To do business in; to busy oneself with.
v
To work by taking a variety of temporary jobs.
v
(sales) To sell additional related items with an original purchase.
v
To make use of; to employ.
v
(transitive) To use; to utilise; to apply.
adv
(obsolete) Quickly, eagerly, impetuously.
n
(informal, business) A model of employee productivity in which workers are ranked into the top 20 percent, the adequate 70 percent, or the bottom 10 percent, and those in the bottom group are fired.
v
To engage in dealings favorable to oneself as principal, taking advantage of one's position as fiduciary.
v
To employ, or to undergo, sortagging.
v
To make use of something.
n
The act by which something is taken.
v
To work as a temporary employee.
n
Any situation in which the quality or quantity of one thing must be decreased for another to be increased.
n
An advantage or improvement that necessitates the corresponding loss or degradation of something else.
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(obsolete) An undertaking or enterprise; something done or attempted.
n
The act of using something; use, employment.
n
One who or that which is used.
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(engineering and services) consumption or utilisation
n
(informal, computing) A utility.
n
The act of using something.
adj
Having to do with, or owned by, a service provider.
n
(management, operations) The percentage of the capacity of a device or system that is used productively.
v
(obsolete, transitive) To profit; to aid.
v
obsolete typography of use [(transitive) To employ; to apply; to utilize.]
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