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Word of the Day - Learn one new word everyday on Dictionary.com ... The credibility of the energy-trading sector has been severely damaged by disclosures of sham transactions in energy trading, designed to build up ostensible sales and profits and therefore share prices of the trading companies.
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/ɒˈstɛn sə bəl/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [o-sten-suh-buh l] Show IPA. Use ostensible in a Sentence · See web results for ostensible ...
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Definition of ostensible from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary with audio pronunciations, thesaurus, Word of the Day, and word games. ... 1 : intended for display : open to view; 2 : being such in appearance : plausible rather than demonstrably true or real <the ostensible purpose for the trip>
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Definition of ostensible in the Online Dictionary. Meaning of ostensible. Pronunciation of ostensible. Translations of ostensible. ostensible synonyms, ostensible antonyms. Information about ostensible in the free online English dictionary and encyclopedia. ... ostensible - appearing as such but not necessarily so;
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Discourse on ostentation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The discourse on ostentation , Matthew 6, is a section of the Sermon on the Mount, occurring after the antithesis of the Law, but before the discourse on judgementalism, according to the Gospel of M...
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ostensible adj. Represented or appearing as such; ostensive: His ostensible purpose was charity, but his real goal was popularity ... Ostensible authority is power that a principal, either by design or through the absence of ordinary care, permits others to believe his or her agent possesses.
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Ostensible authority - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ostensible (or apparent) authority relates to the doctrines of agency. In the area of agency, there are three parties: The Principal, the Agent and the Third party. Ostensible authority is manifested ...
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ostensible (comparative more ostensible, superlative most ostensible) ... Positive; ostensible ... Comparative; more ostensible...
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But they’re also smarter than that – they’ve learned that there is a culture out there that wants to have the image of the leftwing rebel, the hippy, the dreadlock’d anti-capitalist. The left-wing, ostensible activist trend.
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