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Asked on June 15, 2021 in American english.
I’m awaiting a job offer and am about to leapfrog over my supervisor. Is it acceptable to do so?
To jumpfrog from a job or position that was lower or higher than their jobs (Macmillan Dictionary).
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Asked on June 12, 2021 in American english.
I’m awaiting a job offer and am about to leapfrog over my supervisor. Is it acceptable to do so?
To jumpfrog from a job or position that was lower or higher than their jobs (Macmillan Dictionary).
- 508570 views
- 181 answers
- 187687 votes
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Asked on June 12, 2021 in American english.
I’m awaiting a job offer and am about to leapfrog over my supervisor. Is it acceptable to do so?
To jumpfrog from a job or position that was lower or higher than their jobs (Macmillan Dictionary).
- 508570 views
- 181 answers
- 187687 votes
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Asked on March 28, 2021 in Single word requests.
Fred felt honor-bound to speak out publicly in support of his father who had been pilloried by the Nation’s merciless tabloid press in the wake of the bank’s financial collapse.
Honor is bound by one’s sense of honor or what is morally right; a showing of unusually merited respect.
(M-W).
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Asked on March 28, 2021 in Single word requests.
Fred felt honor-bound to speak out publicly in support of his father who had been pilloried by the Nation’s merciless tabloid press in the wake of the bank’s financial collapse.
Honor is bound by one’s sense of honor or what is morally right; a showing of unusually merited respect.
(M-W).
- 505118 views
- 10 answers
- 186017 votes
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Asked on March 28, 2021 in Single word requests.
Fred felt honor-bound to speak out publicly in support of his father who had been pilloried by the Nation’s merciless tabloid press in the wake of the bank’s financial collapse.
Honor is bound by one’s sense of honor or what is morally right; a showing of unusually merited respect.
(M-W).
- 505118 views
- 10 answers
- 186017 votes
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Asked on March 28, 2021 in Single word requests.
May I suggest the word flaccid, adjective – “(of part of the body) soft and hanging loosely or limply, especially so as to look and feel unpleasant (Google) Please use Google spellcheck to check that the adverb, Flaccidly exists?
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Asked on March 28, 2021 in Single word requests.
May I suggest the word flaccid, adjective – “(of part of the body) soft and hanging loosely or limply, especially so as to look and feel unpleasant (Google) Please use Google spellcheck to check that the adverb, Flaccidly exists?
- 511174 views
- 5 answers
- 190413 votes
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Asked on March 28, 2021 in Single word requests.
I think I have the French connection for you. Is there the possibility for a perfidious Albion filching volte-face, as in In a quick volte-face, he redirected, adding… The OP’s reference to the French having invented “a word for this” which “we” have now stolen?
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Volte start: A complete change of attitude or opinion; a reverse in policy. ( M-W )
Likewise, what about:
In a quick verbal pirouette, he redirected, adding….
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Verbal : Relating to or in the form of words. A full turn
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of the back of the body on the point of the toe in ballet. TFD is commonly
recognized as a form of government income tax.
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Asked on March 27, 2021 in Single word requests.
I think I have the French connection for you. Is there the possibility for a perfidious Albion filching volte-face, as in In a quick volte-face, he redirected, adding… The OP’s reference to the French having invented “a word for this” which “we” have now stolen?
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Volte start: A complete change of attitude or opinion; a reverse in policy. ( M-W )
Likewise, what about:
In a quick verbal pirouette, he redirected, adding….
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Verbal : Relating to or in the form of words. A full turn
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of the back of the body on the point of the toe in ballet. TFD is commonly
recognized as a form of government income tax.
- 757209 views
- 23 answers
- 278594 votes
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