| 单词 | salami technique |
| 释义 | > as lemmassalami technique salami technique n. a way of carrying out a plan by means of a series of small or imperceptible steps; spec. (originally U.S.) a type of computer fraud in which small amounts of money are transferred from numerous customer accounts into an account held under a false name. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > stealthy action, stealth > [noun] > achieved by degrees salami technique1975 the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > defrauding or swindling > [noun] > type or method of > computer fraud salami technique1975 1975 Economist 5 Apr. 64/2 The German government used a ‘salami technique’ of reflation throughout last year. It authorised a bit more public spending here, a slightly bigger subsidy there. The first reflationary slices were small and tentative. The next were more substantial. 1981 P. Somerville-Large Living Dog ii. 27 Michael's way of embezzling involved what is known in America as the salami or thin-slice-at-a-time technique. It relied on stealing tiny sums of money from other people's accounts. 1984 Financial Rev. (Austral.) 7 May 30/2 A favourite play of the computer criminal is the ‘salami’ technique which involves the alteration of instructions which can be used to change interest payments to accounts. 1989 N.Y. Times 19 Aug. i. 22/5 The ‘salami technique’ of publishing, in which one good idea is sliced into smaller publishable parts. < as lemmas |
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