单词 | pyramiding |
释义 | pyramidingn. 1. Stock Market. The action or practice of reinvesting profits from stock or other investments, esp. on margin. Also: the building up by a holding company of a succession of controlling interests in other firms. Cf. pyramid v. 3. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [noun] > specific operations or arrangements intromission1567 hedginga1631 retiring1681 partnership1704 put1718 time bargain1720 bargain for time1721 option1746 call1825 put and call1826 cornering1841 corner1853 raid1866 pooling1871 squeeze1872 call option1874 recapitalization1874 short squeeze1877 split-up1878 margin call1888 pyramid1888 profit taking1891 pyramiding1895 underwriting1895 melon-cutting1900 round turn1901 market-making1902 put-through1902 put and take1921 round trip1922 put and take1929 leverage1931 split-down1932 switching1932 give-up1934 mark to market1938 recap1940 rollover1947 downtick1954 stock split1955 traded option1955 leg1959 stock splitting1959 rollover1961 split1972 spread betting1972 unitization1974 marking-to-market1981 swap1982 telebroking1984 society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > getting or making money > [noun] > accumulating wealth or assets muck-heaping?c1422 pyramiding1951 1895 N.Y. Times 22 Oct. 1/5 The practice known as ‘pyramiding’ was generally followed. By this practice speculators added to their orders with every substantial profit. 1933 Sun (Baltimore) 19 Aug. 1/1 Couzens said he ‘knew of no other city in the whole world where there was such an orgy of pyramiding of corporations and the fixing of fictitious values and earnings’. 1951 M. McLuhan Mech. Bride 128/1 Production for use? Yes. But for the briefest possible use consistent with the rigging of the market for the pyramiding of profits. 1967 Economist 17 June 1248/4 There is strong feeling against companies..which retain control of an empire with the minimum of capital through ‘pyramiding’. 1990 J. K. Galbraith Financial Euphoria (1993) v. 85 Some steps were taken—the creation of the Securities and Exchange Commission; restraints on holding-company pyramiding. 2. A piling or building up of something; the action of increasing greatly in size or value. Cf. pyramid v. 1, 4. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > [noun] > composite collectiveness > accumulation > heaping or piling up heapingc900 upheapingc1374 aggeration?a1425 piling1434 coacervation1495 pilement1597 bulking1602 acervation1614 aggestion1659 exaggerationa1676 pyramiding1910 1910 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 11 Feb. 1/5 The possible pyramiding of court interpretations in the direction of gradually wide control over the acts of Congress by reason of such a precedent. 1930 J. R. Aiken Eng. Present & Past iv. xi. 226 In the words uppermost, furthermost, innermost, hindermost, and several others like them, we have the comparative degree combined with the doubly superlative most,..causing a triple pyramiding of inflections. 1958 Times 22 Nov. 7/7 The pyramiding of prosperity, American style, poised more and more on the expanding leisure of a consumers' State. 1990 C. Paglia Sexual Personae i. 21 There would be no culture, no system, no pyramiding of one hierarchy upon another. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). pyramidingadj. That are piled in a pyramid; (chiefly more generally) that are piled or piling up; escalating. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > getting or making money > [adjective] > accumulating assets pyramiding1925 the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > [adjective] > collecting into one mass or body > accumulated > heaping banking1777 acervative1865 pyramiding1977 1925 Manitoba Free Press 18 Mar. 1/4 The pyramiding society scandals have shaken Britain. a1969 J. Kerouac Visions of Cody (1992) 25 Great rows of diced mint jellos in glasses..wild glazed orange cakes—pyramiding glazed desserts made of raspberries [etc.]. 1977 Time Feb. 33/1 Winter stress can be aggravated by the thought of pyramiding fuel bills. 2006 Jrnl. News (Westchester County, N.Y.) (Nexis) 26 Jan. c9 The result of those modest credit lines and the array of fees and finance charges was to ‘trap unwary consumers in a vicious cycle of pyramiding debt’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1895adj.1925 |
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