faculty, impairment charge, in good company

Microsoft is also in good company. Google abandoned its foray into smartphones when it sold Motorola Mobility to Lenovo last year. But it has written off just $378 million related to the $12.5 billion Motorola acquisition. Amazon wrote off an even more modest $170 million last October, acknowledging that its Fire phone was a flop.





雖然鄂蘭一生曾在諸多大學中講課，但她從不認為自己是個學者。她始終秉持自己是思想者。縈繞在她的思想體系中，尤其關注思考的本質與目的：思考對政治倫理的影響、對善惡之間的潛質、以及人類意識的共同基礎。在其著作《心智生命》2 (The Life of the Mind)中，鄂蘭區分了「在獨處下進行的思考」及「與別人構成『思想對話』的思考」。在這兩者之下，不同的觀點與立場，以鄂蘭的話說，都是「內在對話或與別人一起思考的『表現』」，因為思考不但影響著自己的內省，也對外影響著別人：「根自於共同的經驗中，不是少數的特權，而是每個人日常的官能。」思考是尋常的，而它聯結了我們跟自己，也聯結了我們跟別人。 - See more at: http://www.philomedium.com/report/79152#sthash.JFnfMR2I.dpuf






The chief executive of Sony recently announced that the company would take a $1.7 billion impairment charge on the value of its mobile-phone unit, because of lowered expectations for sales of smartphones. For the first time since 1958, when Sony was first listed, the firm will not pay a dividend this year http://econ.st/1swzQjC




Impairment Charges: The Good, The Bad And The Ugly


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"Impairment charge" is the new term for writing off worthless goodwill. These charges started making headlines in 2002 as companies adopted new accounting ...









[動](他)((形式))…を悪くする；〈能力などを〉減じる，弱める，〈機能などを〉害する，損なう. ⇒SPOIL[類語]


impaired hearing

難聴


impair one's health through overwork

過労で健康を害する.


━━[名][U]((古))損傷，減損.


［中フランス語←ラテン語impēiōrāre （im-強意の接頭辞＋pēiorより悪い＋-āre不定詞語尾＝より悪くする）］




impairment Line breaks: im¦pair|ment
Pronunciation: /ɪmˈpɛːm(ə)nt /

NOUN [MASS NOUN]


The state or fact of being impaired, especially in a specified faculty:a degree of physical or mental impairment[COUNT NOUN]: a speech impairment
facultyLine breaks: fac|ulty
Pronunciation: /ˈfak(ə)lti/


Definition of faculty in English:
noun (plural faculties)
1An inherent mental or physical power:her critical facultiesthe faculty of sight
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1.1An aptitude for doing something:his faculty for taking the initiative
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2A group of university departments concerned with a major division of knowledge:the Faculty of Artsthe law faculty
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2.1[IN SINGULAR] The teaching or research staff of agroup of university departments, or (NorthAmerican ) of a university or college, viewed as a body:there were then no tenured women on the faculty
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2.2dated The members of a particular profession, especially medicine, considered collectively.
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3A licence or authorization from a Church authority:the vicar introduced certain ornaments without thenecessary faculty to do so


Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French faculte, from Latinfacultas, from facilis 'easy', from facere 'make, do'.

[名]（複 -ties）
1 [C][U]（…に対する実務の）（先天的・後天的）能力，才能，手腕((for, of ...))

a great faculty for arithmetic
すぐれた算数の才能

have the faculty of making friends quickly
すぐに友人を作る才がある.

▼芸術的な才能には通例talent, giftを用いる.
2 ((しばしば-ties))（精神・身体の）機能，能力

exercise one's mental faculties
知能を働かせる

be in full possession of all one's faculties
すべての機能が順調である

lose one's faculties
頭脳が働かなくなる

develop one's critical faculties
批判力を養う.

3
(1)（大学の）学部

the faculty of medicine
医学部

the four faculties
（中世の大学の）四学部(Divinity, Law, Medicine, Arts).

(2)((集合的))((複数・単数扱い))((米))学部教授団（▼時に学生も含める）；((米))（学校の）教員組織；((主に米))（大学・学校の）教職員.
4 （知的職業の）同業者団体；((the F-))((英略式))医者仲間

the legal faculty
弁護士団.

5 （国家・上司などから得た）権限，特権；《教会》（聖職者が告白を聞く）権能，特別権限.

［中フランス語←ラテン語facultāt（facul容易に＋-TY2）能力. △FACILE］