Also called Oxford shoe, Oxford tie . a low shoe laced over the instep.
Also called oxford cloth . a cotton or synthetic fabric, in plain, twill, or basket weave, constructed on a pattern of two fine yarns woven as one warpwise and one loosely twisted yarn weftwise, for shirts, skirts, and summer sportswear.
Origin of oxford
1580–90; named after Oxford, the city in S Oxfordshire, England.
Scientists at Oxford’s Jenner Institute, in publishing results of their Phase 1 human clinical trial, noted that they had tested blood samples on four different types of assay, and while the results correlated, the titers varied widely.
Scientists to Wall Street: You don’t really understand how COVID vaccine tests work|Jeremy Kahn|August 24, 2020|Fortune
Oxford stepped forward and said it would offer nonexclusive, royalty-free licenses for its vaccine, meaning multiple parties could sell it at a low cost.
Oxford’s COVID vaccine deal with AstraZeneca raises concerns about access and pricing|lbelanger225|August 24, 2020|Fortune
Johnson & Johnson has said that it favors a single shot approach, but—like Sinopharm, Moderna, Pfizer, and Oxford—it will likely administer its vaccines in two doses.
A Chinese company says its vaccine will be ready by December—but it won’t be cheap|Grady McGregor|August 22, 2020|Fortune
Economists at the universities of Oxford, Zurich, and Cambridge looked into the UK furlough program, which supports one-third of the country’s workforce, accounting for more than 9 million jobs, furloughed by mid-June 2020.
Furloughed Brits got paid not to work—but two-thirds of them worked anyway|Cassie Werber|August 18, 2020|Quartz
Still, Raworth did get her economics degree — as well as a master’s in economics, also from Oxford.
Is Economic Growth the Wrong Goal? (Ep. 429)|Stephen J. Dubner|August 13, 2020|Freakonomics
Seventy-two adults between the ages of 18 and 50 are participating in the trial, led by the pediatrics department at Oxford.
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His Oxford shirts and matching boxers are, needless to say, woven.
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His next book is Government against Itself: Public Union Power and Its Consequences (Oxford) due out in January 2015.
How Public Sector Unions Divide the Democrats|Daniel DiSalvo|December 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
But my goodness, even the air around Oxford University is studious.
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The theory was first floated in the 1950s by Professor Homer Dubs of Oxford University.
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And our cadet battalions are making themselves very much at home at Oxford and Cambridge.
Mr. Punch's History of the Great War|Punch
He remembered how homesick he had been the first summer he had spent in Oxford, and how he had longed to go back.
The Youth of Parnassus and Other Stories|Logan Pearsall Smith
If Shakespeare had graduated at Oxford, he might have been a quibbling attorney, or a hypocritical parson.
The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 3 (of 12)|Robert G. Ingersoll
He was a graduate of the University of Oxford, and afterwards had charge of a large private school in one of the English counties.
Reminiscences of a Canadian Pioneer for the last Fifty Years|Samuel Thompson
The scene and its concurrences at Oxford have been witnessed by too many, and too often described, for me to attempt them.
From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life|Captain A. T. Mahan
British Dictionary definitions for oxford (1 of 2)
Oxford1
/ (ˈɒksfəd) /
noun
a city in S England, administrative centre of Oxfordshire, at the confluence of the Rivers Thames and Cherwell: Royalist headquarters during the Civil War; seat of Oxford University, consisting of 40 separate colleges, the oldest being University College (1249), and Oxford Brookes University (1993); motor-vehicle industry. Pop: 143 016 (2001)Related word: Oxonian
Also called: Oxford Downa breed of sheep with middle-length wool and a dark brown face and legs
a type of stout laced shoe with a low heel
a lightweight fabric of plain or twill weave used esp for men's shirts
British Dictionary definitions for oxford (2 of 2)