英语词汇“phoenixisms”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词

phoenixisms

释义

phoenix /fēˈniks/

noun

A legendary Arabian bird, worshipped in ancient Egypt, the only individual of its kind, that burned itself every 500 years or so and rose rejuvenated from its ashes
Hence anything that rises from its own or its predecessor's ashes
A paragon
A southern constellation

ORIGIN: OE fenix, later assimilated to L phoenīx, from Gr phoinix

phoenˈixism noun (stock exchange)

The practice of forming, usu with the same directors, workforce, premises, etc of a bankrupted company, a new company that is therefore able to continue the same trading debt-free

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