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Tekoälykääntäjä
KäännösKonteksti
Verbit
1.idiomaattinen
Fraasit
2.idiomaattinen

Määritelmät

Verbit

  1. (idiomatic) To express one's preferences through one's actions, by voluntarily participating in or withdrawing from an activity, group, or process.

Esimerkit

  • But Khrushchev's economic plan for the East Germans means a new kind of dependence on their old Russian foes, and its fulfillment is a political question—on which East Germans, whatever their phony 99.9% elections say, still vote with their feet by fleeing West at the rate of 2,000 a week.
  • That would enable the students to "vote with their feet" for programs of proven excellence and presumably for fields where the most jobs are available.
  • TWA expects that its lounger will keep it flying high in transatlantic business, where it now leads all other airlines. Says Jesse Liebman, a TWA vice president: "Passengers vote with their feet."
  • Please, vote with your feet—participate in IAP.
  • Then again, I knew that shareholder democracy meant only that I should vote with my feet if I didn't like what management was doing.
  • The conventional wisdom ca. 1980 was that if an investor did not like the way a firm was managed, she could vote with her feet, moving her money elsewhere.

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