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- Definition: A member of a supposed global ruling elite of cosmopolitan business people and administrators. Derivation: Meld of cosmopolitan and bureaucrat. Popularized by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge in A Future Perfect: The Challenge and Hidden Promise of Globalization. Citation: "The cosmocrats are becoming a self-conscious class, helped by the way that the global economy is coalescing around clusters such as Silicon Valley, Wall Street, Hollywood and the City of London. ". Financial Times 2000-05-27.
- Definition: A cosmetic with active pharmaceutical ingredients. Derivation: A blend word from cosmetic and pharmaceutical. Citation: "In 1984, Los Angeles dermatologist Howard Murad formulated a cosmetic cream for his patients that contained safe but active quantities of alpha hydroxy acids. He christened it a 'cosmoceutical', and from that moment, no cream without a research background was so covetable." Financial Times 2000-04-01.
- Definition: Boujet is the formal name for the symbol used by the Dublin Assay Office. Derivation: to be researched
- Definition: One who investigates the contents of skips for recyclable material. A "dumpster diver". Derivation: From the name "Biffa" -- a UK company operating waste skips.
- @标志 Definition: A newly current word for the "at" character @. Also called the "At Sign", "Commercial At", "Commercial At Sign", "Commercial Symbol". Also has numerous nicknames, including snail, arabesque, monkey, curl, cabbage, twiddle, twist, a-twist, strudel, vortex, whorl, whirlpool, cyclone, ape, cat, rose. The official ANSI/CCITT name is "commercial at". In the PostScript language it is called the "at" sign. The expansion of the Internet has brought the sign into prominence, but it remains a mystery why people have difficulty naming the symbol, which has been on typewriter keyboards since the nineteenth century. Perhaps the decline of traditional arithmetic teaching and manual book-keeping ( "15 neeps @ 2 farthings each" ) caused the meaning of the symbol for the younger generation to drop out of knowledge just before it acquired a new use. The single unit term Atmark perhaps has some utility for people speaking aloud Internet addresses. Derivation: The atmark written as a single character is a manuscript abbreviation of the Latin "ad", which means "at". Neo 查单词网独家提供
- 3D工作 dirty肮脏 dangerous危险 demanding苛刻 Definition: A job that is dirty, dangerous or demanding. Particularly used with reference to jobs not popular with white male workers, so often taken by women or immigrants. Derivation: Initialization of dirty, dangerous, demanding. Probably originally a recruitment agency code. Neo 查单词网独家提供