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derivative1 nounderivative2 adjective derivativede‧riv‧a‧tive1 /dɪˈrɪvətɪv/ AWL noun [countable]   - In the derivative market, insurance companies have scaled back their purchases of Remic securities.
- A debate is raging now in finance circles and Congress over whether the value of derivatives should be recorded in corporate books.
- Bear Stearns' units are the third such derivatives subsidiary.
- For simplicity, we have also omitted the transfer function and its first derivative in order to amplify the weight change process.
- Perhaps it could be large if the second derivative of f is small, and viceversa.
- The appendix by Bouveault considered carboxyl groups and its derivatives and substituents.
- The BAe 1000, a derivative of the highly successful BAe 125-800, will be produced at its Chester factory.
- The rise of credit derivatives makes it difficult to determine which banks are exposed to a particular risk.
- The upcoming Voxan clearly uses a derivative of the firm's 72, double overhead cam V-twin.
ADJECTIVE► financial· Cautious by nature, they have missed money-spinning opportunities in new businesses like portfolio insurance and financial derivatives.· These were the first exchange traded financial derivatives. NOUN► business· Weak earnings, especially in the derivatives business, and rising costs led Standard&. ► market· This computerised derivatives market guarantees a high level of market transparency and a rapid handling of clients' transactions.· Later this month, the General Accounting Office will circulate a draft of its new report on the derivatives market. VERB► use· The upcoming Voxan clearly uses a derivative of the firm's 72, double overhead cam V-twin. nounderivativeverbderive 1something that has developed or been produced from something elsederivative of Heroin is a derivative of morphine.2a type of financial investment: the derivatives marketderivative1 nounderivative2 adjective derivativederivative2 adjective - a derivative artistic style
- This relatively new style of music is derivative of ragtime and blues.
- This season's TV shows are all pretty dull and derivative.
- But most of the content of Margery's thinking was derivative.
- In this interpretation rights to the reproduction of derivative works of art rest with the printer.
- No effort has been stinted in polishing this painfully derivative picture as if it were a diamond instead of strictly paste.
- Sometimes the derivative models achieved success through a particular artist holding on to their subaltern guitar long after they'd made it.
- Surrealism and science fiction are derivative from the unrealities, consoling or menacing, of fairyland.
- This is less of a problem here, since rap is derivative by nature.
to copy someone else's work or ideas► copy to copy something that someone else has written or thought of and pretend it is your own work: · Any student caught copying will fail the test.· The company has been accused of copying software ideas from larger competitors.copy something straight from something (=copy it without changing anything): · Most of his answers had been copied straight from the student who sat next to him. ► plagiarize also plagiarise British to illegally copy words, ideas etc from something written by someone else, and pretend that they are your own: · He got kicked out of school because he plagiarized a term paper. · She claimed that she didn't plagiarize - she just paraphrased. ► lift informal to copy someone else's words or ideas and pretend that they are your own: · One paragraph of his essay has been lifted from an economics textbook.be lifted straight from/out of something (=use exactly the same words or ideas): · The plot of the play had been lifted straight out of an old episode of "The Honeymooners". ► steal to take someone else's ideas and use them without their permission in order to make money from them: · Professional designers and architects steal ideas from each other all the time.· She claims that the director stole ideas from her historical novel and used them in the movie. ► derivative formal not original, but strongly influenced by someone else's work or partly copied from it: · a derivative artistic stylederivative of: · This relatively new style of music is derivative of ragtime and blues. not new or invented, but copied or taken from something else – used to show disapproval: a derivative text |