| 单词 | value-seeker |
| 释义 | > as lemmasvalue-seeker (b) With agent nouns, as value-giver, value maximizer, value-seeker, etc. ΚΠ 1889 Rocky Mountain News (Denver) 21 Aug. 8/4 (advt.) Popular value givers in clothes, hats, shoes and furnishings. a1918 R. S. Bourne Hist. Literary Radical (1956) 257 Our intellectuals have failed us as value-creators, even as value-emphasizers. 1922 Printers' Ink 24 Aug. 6/2 From a nation of careless buyers, we have been transformed into one of shrewd, almost expert, value-seekers. 1990 Atlantic Jan. 58/2 Human beings are value-maximizers, which is to say that they will always try to make the best possible situation for themselves. 2001 N.Y. Times 18 Mar. iii. 1/4 Why bother with the ways of Graham and Dodd, the classic value-hunters, when Wall Street was offering investors the lure of new investing metrics? < as lemmas |
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