inter-firmadj.
Carried on between two or more business firms.
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inter-firm1949
1949 Collier's Year Bk. 132 The rulings..disapproved secondary boycotts affecting interfirm activities.
1961 Times 2 May 2/5 The growing volume of interfirm comparison work.
1964 Economist 21 Mar. 1067/1 Confidential interfirm comparisons.
1967 Economist 7 Jan. 24/3 What sort of mergers, and what sort of inter-firm co-operation, does Britain want?
1972 Times 31 Oct. 25/2 ‘Interfirm comparison’ is one of those rare animals, a management technique which the British have managed to sell to the Americans.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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adj.1949- to make short
- to make short boards
- to make short of long
- to make short work of
- to make short work of occasionally with
- to make shorter by a head
- to make showers
- to make showing of
- to make shy of
- to make sib
- to make sick
- to make sit up
- to make slight of
- to make slow running
- to make smooth
- to make smooth work of
- to make snug
- to make so bold
- to make some noise
- to make someone an ass
- to make someone an offer he or she can't refuse
- to make someone tired
- to make someone's blood boil
- to make someone's life a misery
- to make something fast