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SEAGULL [3 records]

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Record 1 2017-01-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Finance
OBS

knock-out seagull : term extracted from the “Glossaire de l'économie” and reproduced with permission of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Finances
OBS

structure en mouette à barrière désactivante : terme extrait du «Glossaire de l’économie» et reproduit avec l’autorisation de l’Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques.

Spanish

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Record 2 2016-04-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Lexicology, Lexicography, Terminology
DEF

A term that has a hierarchical relationship to another term whose semantic range is more restricted.

OBS

For example, pigeon, crow, eagle and seagull are all hyponyms of bird(their hypernym)...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Lexicologie, lexicographie et terminologie
DEF

Terme dont le sens inclut celui d'un ou de plusieurs autres.

OBS

[...] rouge est superordonné par rapport à ses hyponymes (écarlate, cramoisi, vermillon).

Key term(s)
  • terme super-ordonné

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Lexicología, lexicografía y terminología
DEF

Designación de un concepto superordinado.

CONT

Un término hiperónimo es aquél cuyo significado engloba al de otras palabras. Por ejemplo, la palabra "alimentos" es hiperónima porque engloba a otras muchas como "fruta", "dulces", "pescado" o "carne".

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Record 3 2011-10-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Vocabulary
DEF

A manager who only interacts with employees to criticize their work or when a problem arises.

CONT

The president is acting like a seagull, swooping in, making a lot of noise and flying out. When operating in this mode, executives focus on finding people to criticize but never balance their efforts with finding an equal number of employees to praise. Counteract this tendency by spending time trying to catch employees in the act of doing something right, and praise them accordingly. This will improve morale for all your workers. If you focus only on being a seagull manager, your employees will cringe at the sight of you, will do only the minimum effort to get by and will tell all their friends to avoid your business.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire général
DEF

Gestionnaire qui intéragit avec ses employés seulement pour critiquer leur travail ou lorsque survient un problème.

Spanish

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