单词 | preplace |
释义 | preplacev. 1. a. transitive. To put in place beforehand. ΚΠ 1904 Atlanta (Georgia) Constit. 13 Apr. 8/1 The poems, which consist of fourteen parodies of Chaucer, are preplaced with an introduction by H.B. Marriott-Watson. 1962 Times 31 Aug. 19/4 The faces are attached to these cores by a brazing material, generally used as a foil pre-placed in the brazing fixture. 1973 J. G. Tweedale Materials Technol. ii. v. 113 In adhesive bonding and some brazing operations the filler is preplaced before closing the joint. 2004 Austin (Texas) Amer.-Statesman (Nexis) 4 Oct. e1 Wilson slithers up the rock cliff like Spider-Man to set a sport climbing route by attaching ropes to the bolts that have been preplaced in the rock face. b. transitive. Stock Market. To sell (shares, holdings, etc.) to a buyer or group of buyers in advance of a public sale. Cf. place v. 6a(b). ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > deal in stocks and shares [verb (transitive)] > specific operations subscribe1618 to take up1655 to sell out1721 to take in1721 to take up1740 pool?1780 capitalize1797 put1814 feed1818 to vote (the) stock (or shares)1819 corner1836 to sell short1852 promote1853 recapitalize1856 refund1857 float1865 water1865 margin1870 unload1870 acquire1877 maintain1881 syndicate1882 scalp1886 pyramid1888 underwrite1889 oversubscribe1891 joint-stock1894 wash1895 write1908 mark1911 split1927 marry1931 stag1935 unwind1958 short1959 preplace1966 unitize1970 bed and breakfast1974 index-link1974 warehouse1977 daisy-chain1979 strip1981 greenmail1984 pull1986 1966 Times 4 Mar. 17/4 The whole trust..will be a £15m. affair with £9m. worth of units subject to the offer for sale and £6m. pre-placed with institutions and clients. 1982 Financial Times (Nexis) 2 Nov. ii. 19 The bulk of this issue, which was launched on Friday, was preplaced leading to a shortage of paper for investors seeking to buy into a rare fixed rate issue by a Swiss bank. 2001 Euroweek (Nexis) 12 Jan. 41 Overall, the deal was viewed a success, with two-thirds of the deal preplaced and almost 90% of the transaction having been sold by yesterday. 2. transitive. To place (a word or element) before a word; = prefix v. 6. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > morphology > morpheme > use morphemes [verb (transitive)] > add as prefix or suffix prefix1605 suffix1778 postfix1823 preplace1905 1905 Altoona (Pa.) Mirror 10 June 4/2 (advt.) The proverb goes, ‘Competition is the life of trade.’ We amend this by preplacing the word honor to the sentence and saying ‘Honorable competition is the life of trade.’ 1946 I. Schapera Bantu-Speaking Tribes of S. Afr. xiv. 329 Nouns commencing in the vowel i, lower the tone on that vowel and may preplace y-, e.g. imbuzi (goat) > yimbuzi (it is a goat). Derivatives preˈplaced adj. ΚΠ 1946 Reno (Nevada) Evening Gaz. 29 Aug. 14/1 Only a relatively small amount of material and equipment must be smuggled into a country for the construction of a preplaced bomb. 1998 R. D. Carnes Sacred Circles 105 She would purposefully set up the room so that when people entered they had to sit in a circle of preplaced chairs. 2003 Wall St. Jrnl. 14 Feb. c10/5 Selling by ‘day traders’ hammered prices through preplaced sell orders from speculators. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1904 |
随便看 |
|
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。