naming (verb)

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• naming and shaming — ˌnaming and ˈshaming noun [uncountable] LAW when the authorities make known to the public the names of companies that have broken the law or the rules for a particular activity: • the naming and shaming of food manufacturers which fail to comply… …   Financial and business terms

• Compound verb — In linguistics, a compound verb or complex predicate is a multi word compound that acts as a single verb. One component of the compound is a light verb or vector, which carries any inflections, indicating tense, mood, or aspect, but provides only …   Wikipedia

• Modern Hebrew verb conjugation — Main article: Hebrew grammar In Modern Hebrew, verbs are conjugated to reflect their tense and mood, as well as to agree with their subjects in gender, number, and person. Each verb has an inherent voice, though a verb in one voice typically has… …   Wikipedia

• name and shame — naming and shaming ˌnaming and ˈshaming noun [uncountable] LAW when the authorities make known to the public the names of companies that have broken the law or the rules for a particular activity: • the naming and shaming of food manufacturers… …   Financial and business terms

• bring up — verb 1. summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic (Freq. 3) raise the specter of unemployment he conjured wild birds in the air call down the spirits from the mountain • Syn: ↑raise, ↑conjure, ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

• qualify — verb ( fied; fying) Etymology: Middle French qualifier, from Medieval Latin qualificare, from Latin qualis Date: 1533 transitive verb 1. a. to reduce from a general to a particular or restricted form ; modify b. to make less harsh or strict …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• key out — verb identify as in botany or biology, for example • Syn: ↑identify, ↑discover, ↑key, ↑distinguish, ↑describe, ↑name • Derivationally related forms: ↑name (for: ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

• sell a bargain — verb A species of wit, much in vogue about the latter end of the reign of Queen Anne, and frequently alluded to by Dean Swift, who says the maids of honour often amused themselves with it. It consisted in the seller naming his or her hinder parts …   Wiktionary

• shrink — verb 1) the number of competitors shrank Syn: get smaller, become/grow smaller, contract, diminish, lessen, reduce, decrease, dwindle, decline, fall off, drop off Ant: expand, increase 2) …   Thesaurus of popular words

• shrink — verb 1) the number of competitors shrank Syn: get smaller, contract, diminish, lessen, reduce, decrease, dwindle, decline, fall off 2) he doesn t shrink from naming names Syn: recoil …   Synonyms and antonyms dictionary

• warrant — verb In contracts, to engage or promise that a certain fact or state of facts, in relation to the subjectmatter, is, or shall be, as it is represented to be. In conveyancing, to assure the title to property sold, by an express covenant to that… …   Black's law dictionary