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Tekoälykääntäjä

Synonyymit

Ääntäminen

  • ÄäntäminenSouthern England
  • Tuntematon aksentti:
    • IPA: /ˈskælpɚ/
KieliKäännökset
espanjarevendedor, revendedora
hollantiiemand die toegangskaarten meestal duur doorverkoopt
italiabagarino, scotennatore
japaniダフ屋 (dafu-ya / dafuya)
portugalicambista
ruotsiskalperare
saksaSkalpierer
suomijobbari
tšekkipřekupník
unkarijegyüzér
venäjäспекулянт (spekuljant), спекулянт театральными билетами (spekuljant teatralnymi biletami)

Määritelmät

Substantiivi

  1. One who scalps, or removes the scalp of another.
  2. (US, Canada) One who scalps tickets to popular entertainment events: buying them in advance and then selling them (e.g. online or just outside the venue of the event), often at inflated prices.
  3. (by extension) One who scalps any other item with limited availability.
  4. (gambling) A gambler who scalps.
  5. (finance) A person on an open outcry exchange trading floor who buys and sells rapidly for his or her own account, aiming to buy from a seller and a little later sell to a buyer, making a small profit from the difference (roughly the amount of the bid/offer spread, or less).
  6. A machine for removing the ends of grain, such as wheat or rye, or for separating the different grades of broken wheat, semolina, etc.
  7. A surgical instrument for scraping carious bones.

Esimerkit

  • Denouncing representations of hostile Indians as vicious scalpers of innocent settlers [...]
  • We could see three different scalpers moving through the crowd outside the arena, each muttering the characteristic refrain: “Need any tickets?”

Taivutusmuodot

Monikkoscalpers

(US, Canada) One who scalps tickets to popular entertainment events: buying them in advance and then selling them (e.g. online or just outside the venue of the event), often at inflated prices.

In this 1920s cartoon by Tad Dorgan, people wishing to attend a boxing match are told that all the good tickets were sold (to "specs" — that is, speculators) yesterday, even though the match was only announced that morning.

(US, Canada) One who scalps tickets to popular entertainment events: buying them in advance and then selling them (e.g. online or just outside the venue of the event), often at inflated prices.

A ticket scalper selling tickets for a Penn State football game