2015年11月13日 星期五

agency, buster, doorbuster, trustbuster, budget buster,


For the first time ever, Walmart has announced that most of its famous Black Friday doorbuster deals will be online starting at 12:01 AM PT Thanksgiving day.




Today’s Police Put On a Gun and a Camera

With the proliferation of residents’ videos of confrontations with the law, more police agencies are equipping officers to record their version of events.
CreditRajah Bose for The New York Times





WHEN Walt Disney’s animated version of "Alice in Wonderland" (1951) proved a financial disappointment for the studio, Disney suggested that the problem lay with the character of Alice. She lacked, he reasoned, the agency and sympathetic humanity of Snow White or Cinderella.


Poor Americans spend 40% of their income on housing. How budgets differ for the rich and poor: http://on.wsj.com/1kbOEUQ

Korean trustbusters raid Google offices (scoop)
CNET
The Korean Fair Trade Commission, that country's antitrust agency, raided Google's offices in Seoul today, CNET has learned. Regulators are apparently interested in information about Google allegedly limiting access to rival search engines on its ..

Google and antitrust

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Google’s dominance is under the trustbusters' microscope in America(19)


trustbuster
(trŭst'bŭs'tər) pronunciation
n.
One that seeks to prosecute or dissolve business trusts.

trustbusting trust'bust'ing adj. & n.


doorbuster is a strategy that serves a dual purpose. The goal of these special low price deals is to get customers into the store to buy specific items on sale and also to get them to come in and look around at what other items the store has to offer.

doorbuster - Wiktionary

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/doorbuster
doorbuster ‎(plural doorbusters) An unusually low sale price, typically offered by a retailer on a limited number of items for a limited time, often on prominent shopping days, such as the day after Thanksgiving in the US.

buster

(bŭs'tər) pronunciation
n.
  1. One that breaks up something: a crime buster.
  2. A broncobuster.
  3. A particularly robust child.
  4. A baby buster.
  5. Informal. Fellow. Used in addressing a man or boy, especially out of annoyance: Watch where you're going, buster!

noun
noun, mainly US

A riotous fellow; a 'mate', chap (esp. as a friendly or slightly disrespectful form of address). (1850 —) .
A. Shepard 'OK, Buster,' I said to myself, 'you volunteered for this thing' (1962).

[Dialectal variant of burster.]

Oxford American Dictionary
action or intervention, esp. such as to product a particular effect.

a thing or person that acts to produce a particular result. 這是我先前的答:貴人/物相助。

The Oxford Companion to Children Literature 兩詞條的說明,我的說法還是有點根據。


agency

Line breaks: agency
Pronunciation: /ˈeɪdʒ(ə)nsi/



NOUN

1[OFTEN WITH ADJECTIVE OR NOUN MODIFIER] A business or organization providing a particular service on behalf of another business, person, or group:an advertising agencyaid agencies
1.1department or body providing a specific service for a government or other organization:the Environmental Protection Agency
2[MASS NOUN] Action or intervention producing a particular effect:canals carved by the agency of running water
2.1[COUNT NOUN] A thing or person that acts to produce a particular result:the movies could be an agency moulding thevalues of the public

Origin

mid 17th century: from medieval Latin agentia, fromagent- 'doing' (see agent).

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