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shanghaiing
verb as in kidnap
Weak matches
Example Sentences
The Shanghai exchange told Ant in a notice that changes in financial technology regulatory requirements and other “major issues” meant the company didn’t meet the requirements needed to list on its exchange.
The suspension was a shock to the financial world, especially for the retail investors in Hong Kong and Shanghai who had swamped the exchanges with $3 trillion worth of bids for Ant’s shares.
Chiang, who adopted the name Cecilia as a young woman, was born Sun Yun in 1920 in Wuxi, outside of Shanghai, and was the 10th of 12 children.
Ant won regulatory approval for its Shanghai listing on Wednesday, clearing the way for it to begin guaging investor demand for an IPO that could value the Hangzhou-based company at $280 billion or more.
Several are mega-cities with more than 10 million people—Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen, and Chengdu, to name a few—and beyond these giants, there’s a whopping 113 cities with more than a million people.
Usually, however, “Shanghaiing” is practised upon drunken sailors only.
The various methods of forcing a sailor to sea are called “Shanghaiing.”
I suppose youve done a bit of shanghaiing in your day, eh, Hennessy?
It seems a fellow who was in prison down at Logan with Gates and Hegan helped them engineer my shanghaiing.
In “Shanghaiing” a sober man, resort is had to false promises.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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