networkingn.

1940 J. Porterfield & K. Reynolds We present Television iv. 149 Television, now that a practicable means of networking has been developed, has been supplied with the final implement necessary for the creation of what will eventually be a nation-wide service.

1956 Newsweek 7 May 59 The television networking business is a complicated and delicate business.

1968 Listener 8 Aug. 187/1 The new companies..operate within a networking system still dominated by Granada, ATV and Thames.

1971 Writing for B.B.C. 65 Plays intended for networking..should not be so Scottish that they cannot be readily understood by listeners in the other parts of the British Isles.

1986 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 19 Sept. 4/5 The ABC's manic obsession with networking is shortsighted and will only alienate its listeners.

1966 Economist 3 Dec. 1042/2 If one wanted to work out what was involved in doing something, an engineer would use a bar chart. (The ‘hard way’ in our charts showing the networking of a cup of tea.)

1967 Educom Dec. 8/2 The immediate project involves the networking of medical information.

1972 Datamation Apr. 42/1 Unless the problems of [resource] sharing are properly managed, computer networking will fail.

1977 Business Week 19 Dec. 64 m/1 The idea of networking—linking work stations together so that they function separately but have access to the same information base—is being hotly debated.

1987 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 3 Feb. 23/1 Networking allows specific targetting of advertising campaigns on a level never before possible and at cost savings which were once impossible.

1993 Australian 13 May (Brisbane ed.) 36/5 With the advent of networking, many people would actually be more cost-effective doing their work from home rather than the office.

1999 Personal Computer World Aug. 40/2 A common picture is that of some kind of ‘data mains’, fed by phone, cable and wireless and distributed around the building by a choice of networking technologies.

1976 C. L. Attneave in P. J. Guerin Family Therapy xii. 227 ‘Network’ is a noun referring to entire social or family network as the unit of intervention... The techniques..described by Speck and Attneave..are those of assembling the social network, which they prefer to call a process of retribalization rather than ‘networking’.

1979 Working Woman Oct. 4/2 The way networking works in real life for both men and women goes something like this: when you need help, someone you have known over a period of time, for whom you have done services and favors of friendship, takes your need as the opportunity to return them.

1985 Toronto Life Sept. 63/1 The success of a film festival depends on networking—to get the right films it helps to know the right people.

1987 Catholic Leader (Brisbane) 3 May 3/1 One of the major benefits from this kind of networking is mutual support by care-givers and the ease of exchange of ideas among people in overlapping fields of care.

1992 Times 30 Dec. 8/6 An important forum for ‘networking’, or making contacts.