| 单词 | leads and lags |
| 释义 | > as lemmasleads and lags d. Finance. leads and lags (also attributive phrase lead-and-lag): see quot. 19651. Also transferred. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > payment > [noun] > hastening or delaying payment leads and lags1958 1958 Spectator 31 Jan. 129/1 The ‘leads and lags’ are being replaced by a more natural pattern of commercial payments. 1959 Economist 14 Feb. 619/2 The customary ‘leads and lags’ are at work, postponing commercial demands for sterling and accelerating sales of sterling. 1962 S. E. Finer Man on Horseback xii. 220 Sometimes the demand for popular sovereignty has preceded nationalism, sometimes it has been the other way about; but the leads and lags were never very lengthy. 1964 A. Battersby Network Anal. iii. 37 The lead-and-lag (or ladder) system has the merit of simplicity, and it draws attention to the importance of planning the sequence of individual jobs within a departmental activity. 1965 J. L. Hanson Dict. Econ. 253/2 Leads and Lags, with reference to international payments and their effect on the balance of payments this term is used on the hastening or delaying of payment, the former by residents and the latter to residents in order to take advantage of expectations of changes in the rate of exchange. 1965 Listener 13 May 692/2 Some foreigners, in the habit of acquiring sterling in advance of their commitments, refrained from doing so; that would be a mug's game, they thought, when sterling might be devalued before they had to pay. These are known as the ‘leads and lags’ in trade payments. < as lemmas |
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