Apt Phrases, Redolent Of Novel Yet Meaningful Sense
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| 100% | ACCOUNTING | Are Cash Controls Operating Usefully, Need To Investigate Negative Growth |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | AMERICA (3) | Acquire Money! Exploit Resources Innovatively! Capital Access! |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. Places:Countries |
| 100% | ASSOCIATE | Acquaintance Seen Somewhat Often, Commercial Interests Are The Excuse. |
Angela Brett People & Relationships |
| 80% | BARCODES | "Black-and-white Arrangement" Reading Computers Offer Dealers Enhanced Stocktaking |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science:Electronics |
| 100% | BARGAIN | Buyer Acquired "Resources = Great" Amount Invested Near/Nil! |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. |
| 100% | BARGAIN (2) | Business Acumen Requires Grasping Accurately Investment Needs/Numerically! |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. |
| 100% | BEHIND THE EIGHT BALL | Balefully, Everything He'd Invested Never Developed. Then He Erringly Engaged In Gambling; He Then Borrowed Awfully Large Loans. |
Roger Williams Assorted Phrases |
| 100% | BIG PROFITS | By Increasing Gross Prices, Rip Off From Idiotically Thick Shoppers |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | BILL | Big, If Lunchers Linger |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Food & Drink |
| 100% | BILLED | Bought It, Left Loot, Endured Demands |
Sean Lamb |
| 100% | BONUS (2) | Barrage Of Nonsense Undermine Superiority |
Dundee |
| 100% | BONUS (3) | Bankable Overtime Notches Up Salary |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | BOTTOM LINE | Basis Of Trade - To Operate Many Lines Is Needless Expense |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | BRANDING | Buyers Remember A Name, Discredit If No Good |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | BRIBE | Big Remittance Is Brash Enough |
Roger Williams |
| 100% | BUSINESS | Best Understood Solution If Nothing Else Satisfies Simply |
Iniyan G |
| 100% | BUSINESS OF POLICE PROTECTION | Because Unpaid Security Is Not Effective, Somebody Should Offer (For Pay) Officer Left In Charge, Exclusively Premises Requested Of The Employer's Client. This Is Ordinary Nowadays. |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Law & Order |
| 100% | CABINET | Caring About Business Induces Negative Employer's Threat |
Dundee |
| 100% | CABINET (2) | Collectivity Assures Blame Is Never Effectively Tackled |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Politics |
| 100% | CALCULATE | Costs: Accurately Logged! Counter Unnecessary Longings! Advance Truth Empathetic! |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. |
| 100% | CALL BACKS | Compile A Little Log Book About Customers - Keep Secret! |
Tony McCoy O'MayIHaveFiveMinutesOfYourTimeToDiscussXYZ? |
| 100% | CHAOS (3) | Comprehensive Handling And Organising System |
David White |
| 100% | CLIENT | Customer List - Industrial Enterprises Need Them |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 92% | COMPETITION | Co-operation Of Major Petrol Empires Throws Insult To It, One Notices. |
Angela Brett, when she received an email urging people to boycott major PETROL companies in order to force the price down. (See also CO-OPERATION) Transport |
| 100% | COMPETITION (2) | Consumers Often Monitor Price, Ensuring That It's Truly Indicative Of Noteworthiness |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | CO-OPERATION | Complete Oligarchy Of Petroleum Empires Riles All The Innocent Oil-Needers. |
Angela Brett (see COMPETITION) Transport |
| 100% | CORPORATION | City's Officials Regulate Policy Or Respond Appropriately To Incidents Of Note |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | CORPORATION (2) | Companies Often Report Profits On Retail And Then Insist On Nondisclosure |
Sean Lamb |
| 100% | COST SAVINGS | Cut Out Silly Things Since Adding Value Is Not Generating Sales |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | CSC | Citizens, Send Cash |
Jeff Anonymous (In reference to ezboard.com's premium service) Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| 94% | CUSTOMER REPORTING | Can't Users See That Our Manufacturing Errors Remain Regardless of Everyone Phoning Our Reporting Team? Improvement's Not Gainful. |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | CUSTOMER SATISFACTION | Could Use Some Training On Making Everyone Remember Store As Terrific. I Shouldn't Force A Client To Investigate Our Neighbours. |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | CUSTOMER SERVICE | Can't Understand Simple Terms Or Makes Excuses Randomly Says Every Record Vanished Internal Combustion Ensues |
Rico Leffanta |
| 100% | DEALERSHIP | Druggies Earn A Living Encouraging Regularly Smoking Hashish In Pipes |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Drugs |
| 100% | DOT COM | Doesn't Own Tradable Commodities - Owes Money |
Tony McCoy O'Grady: Dotcoms usually don't 'do' much and frequently lose money or are in debt since their inception. Computers:Internet |
| 100% | DSL (4) | Don't Say 'Lame'! |
Angela Brett, as an alternate expansion of the more common Disability Sick Leave. Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| 100% | DUES | Debtors Union Exorcising Sanity |
Rico Leffanta |
| 100% | DUTCH | Duo Usually Tries Currency Halving |
Angela Brett, referring to the idiom, 'go Dutch' |
| 97% | EARNINGS BEFORE I TRICKED THE DUMB AUDIT | Evidently A Really Nasty Idiot Now Goes Stealing. Business Enterprises Fail Often - Rip-off Employees' Individual Thefts Rapidly Increase. Can't Keep Employing Deceitful Twits - Have Executive Department Using Much Business Acumen & Using Deep Investigating Tactics |
Tony McCoy O'Grady - who admires those in the Audit Department where he works |
| 100% | EBAY | Excellent Buys Available! Yesterday! |
Roger Williams Computers:Internet |
| 100% | ECONOMICS | Each Column Offers Numerous Opportunities; Make It Count Sensibly |
Patricia Rix |
| 100% | ECONOMICS (2) | Expend Cautiously - Or No Obvious Merit In Careful Saving? |
Leo Boyes |
| 100% | ELECTRONIC DATA PROCESSING | Ever Lost Electronic Credit To Robots Of Nasty Internet Criminals? Don't Allow Their Attacks, Prompt Routine Of Checking Every Site's Security If Negotiating Greenback. |
Angela Brett Computers |
| 100% | EXPENSE CONTROL | Ever Xpanding Purchasing Ensures No Savings Exist. Can One Not Try Regulating Outgoing Lolly? |
TMcCO'G |
| 100% | EXPENSE MANAGEMENT | Every Xebec Put Elsewhere Needs Some Explicit Meaning And Necessity. Accountants Gain Extra Money Eliminating Needless Tarriffs. |
Angela Brett |
| 86% | FAILER | Failure Approaching = Income Lower than Expenses Repeatedly |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. |
| 100% | FAILURE (2) | Failure = (Assets + Income Lowering Uncontrollably Repeatedly) < Expenses |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. |
| 100% | FAILURE (3) | Funds Are Inadequate, Loads Under Running Expenses. |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | FASHION MARKETING | Find A 'Statement', Hang It On Nonchalant Model, And Rich Kids (Exposing Their Insecurities) 'Need' Garment. |
Angela Brett Household Objects:Clothing |
| 100% | FASHIONS (2) | Fools Are Spending Hundreds; It's Old Next Season |
Angela Brett Household Objects:Clothing |
| 100% | FASTPHONE | Funds Are Speedily Transferred, Particularly Handy On Near-Empty. |
Angela Brett, who often uses her bank's Fastphone service to transfer funds from her savings account to her EFTPOS one. Communication |
| 100% | FILES | Fresh Interns Love Elderly Seniors |
Dundee |
| 95% | FIRST TIME HOME BUYER | Family Is Readying Sibling To Take Into Mortgages (Earliest "House Of My-own" Experience's Best Undergone Young) & Expensive Repayments |
Tony McCoy O'Grady People & Relationships:Family Places:Buildings |
| 100% | FLYER | Frightful "Literature" You Eternally Refuse |
TMcCO'G referring to the handbills handed out on streets to passers-by Communication |
| 100% | FOCUS GROUP | Feed Our Customers Under Scrutiny, Gauging Reactions On Unfamiliar Products. |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | FRANCHISE | Fellow Runs A New Company Having Invested Serious Equity |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | FREE OFFER! | Funds Required: Exorbitant! Enticing Offer! Fools Futilely Expect Reward! |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. |
| 92% | FUNDRAISING | From Unneeded Nickels to Dollars, Reviving An Invalid's Smile... It's Nice Gesture. |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | GROWS | Given Resources Opportunists Win Sales! |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. |
| 100% | HALT | Horrible... Athome Locks Transactions. |
Jeff Anonymous, in reference to his ISP halting trading at 14 cents. |
| 100% | HANDSHAKE | Hoping A Nasty Deal Somehow Has A Kiss Enclosed |
Rico Leffanta People & Relationships |
| 100% | HANDSHAKE (2) | Hope A Nice Deal Still Has A Kind Ending |
Tamara Parisio People & Relationships |
| 100% | HIRE | Hardware Is Rented Everywhere |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | HIRE (2) | Having Implement Requires Expenditure |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | HIRE (3) | Help Is Required, Evenings |
Patricia Rix |
| 100% | HOBBY | Hopefully Outcome's Big Bucks, Yes? |
Angela Brett, when Mike from acronymfinder.com mentioned that his hobby now earns him money in advertising and licensing. |
| 100% | IMPORTS | I Must Purchase Overseas Requisites Traders Supply |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | INDEBTED | Insolvent Nymph Discovers Every Banker Trusts Exotic Dancers |
Rico Leffanta |
| 100% | INSURANCE | Investment Needed Should User Risk Accidental Nasty Chance Event |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | IRS | Income Retrieval Service |
Sean Lamb (who just finished filing his 2003 tax return) Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| 50% | ISP | It Starves [from lack of] Profit |
Jeff Anonymous, when his ISP's stock was worth fourty cents. (ISP usually stands for Internet Service Provider) Re-expansions of existing acronyms Computers:Internet |
| 100% | ISP (2) | It Starves, Profitless |
Angela Brett, as a modification of Jeff's ISP. Re-expansions of existing acronyms Computers:Internet |
| 100% | ISP (5) | It Shan't Prevail! |
Angela Brett, referring to Jeff's ISP Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| 100% | ISP (6) | I'm Sorely Peeved! |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, in reference to Jeff's ISP Re-expansions of existing acronyms Computers:Internet |
| 100% | ISP (7) | Internet Stopper Plugged |
Jeff Anonymous (in reference to what'll happen when @home finally does go down the loo...well, I have AOL on the side just in case) Re-expansions of existing acronyms Computers:Internet |
| 100% | ISP (8) | It Seeks Profit |
Jeff Anonymous, as a modification of ISP Re-expansions of existing acronyms Computers:Internet |
| 100% | IT'S THE ECONOMY, STUPID | I Think State's Taxing Heavily, Even Employers Cannot Offer New Offices. Maybe You Simply Think Unemployment Punishes Impious Denominations. |
Angela Brett Religion |
| 100% | JINGLE | Jangling Intrusive Notes Generate Lavish Expenditure |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Assorted Nouns:Noises |
| 100% | MADE IN USA | Mexicans Are Deviously Employed Illegally. No Unions Should Apply |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | MANAGEMENT | Making A Nuisance And Getting Everybody Muddled Eventually Nauseates Them |
Tony McCoy O'Grady People & Relationships:The Workforce:Occupations |
| 100% | MEETINGS | Meaningless Endeavours Engendering Trash, Including Nagging Grandmothers' Stories. |
Dundee |
| 100% | MEETINGS (2) | My Employer Expects Togetherness - It Never Generates Solutions |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | MONOPOLY | Many Owners Nevermore. One Person Owns Lots. Yikes! |
Roger Williams |
| 100% | NO LONGER IN BUSINESS | "No-One Left, Offices Now Gone, Everyone's Redundant, It's Now Bankrupt." (Usual Speechwriter Is Now Employed Somewhere Solvent.) |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | PASSWORD (2) | People Actually Seem Stupid Working Outside Required Directives |
Dundee |
| 100% | PIECE OF CAKE! (3) | Peace Invasion! Examine Computers! Execution Order: Fillers! Cakers! Assemble Kinder Elevators! |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. Bakery acquires another bakery and gives raises toall. Food & Drink |
| 100% | POOR MAN | People Ordinary Opulent Retaining Mana And Nous |
Mary Carr People & Relationships |
| 100% | PORTFOLIO | Plenty Of Red Tape Folding One's Lifetime Investment Opportunities |
Tony McCoy O'DowJones |
| 100% | PRICE | Profit Received = Incoming Cash - Expenses |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. |
| 100% | PRODUCT IMPROVEMENT | Please Remember Ordinary Daily Users. Code Tuning Isn't Much Prized - Regardless Of Velocity, Exasperation Makes Everything Need Time. |
Angela Brett (Most everyday software doesn't really benefit from code-tuning to make each operation run as quickly as possible... productivity really increases when the software is made easier to use.) Computers:Programming |
| 100% | PURCHASING | People Using Resources Can Haggle And/or Shop In New Grocers |
Tony McCoy O'ShoppingTrolley |
| 100% | PURCHASING POWER | People Using Real Cash Have A Strength In Numbers, Grocers Provide Offers Which Earn Revenue |
TMcCO'G |
| 100% | QUESTION | Query Usually Eliciting Some Thought, If One's Nice |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | REFUND | Returning Endorsements For Using Notes, Deficient |
Jan Morgan |
| 100% | REPOSSESSION | Repugnant Event, Perhaps One Should've Sent Expected Stipend, Since It's Overdue Now. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | RETAIL | Really Expensive Things Are Individually Labelled |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | RICH MAN | Randy Ignorant Craving Hideous Money Amid Needy |
Mary Carr |
| 100% | SALE | Some Articles Less Expensive |
Tony Moore |
| 100% | SALES AND MARKETING | Successful Agents Learn Each Stock's Assets, New Deals Made Are Regularly - Keep Exceeding Targets In Noteworthy Growth |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | SALES ANGLE: "HOMES" CHEAP! | Secure Abodes: Lush Environs! Swimming! Appropiately Named "Great Lakes Estates: Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie & Superior!" Constraint: Have Easy Annual Payments! |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. Places:Buildings |
| 100% | SALES GOALS | Shamelessly A Lad Expounds Spurious Gobbledygook On Acme's Latest System |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | SALES GOALS (2) | Seem A Little Excessive? Some General Office Ass Lacks Sense |
Tony McCoy O'Grady (Sales goals are usually just-about-unachieveable levels set by someone in headquarters, who has never worked on the shop-floor) |
| 100% | SAME DAY PROCESSING | 'Snaps' Are Magically, Expressly, Developed And (Yes) Printed Rapidly. Our Computer Ensures Shoddy Shot In Not Generated |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 93% | SAVING NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOLS | Stopping Another Vexing Installation of National Grocery Network; Education Is Good, However [much] Buying Our Radishes Hurts! Our Overpriced Dairies Should Continue Having Oligopoly, Or Learning Suffers. |
Angela Brett, thinking of schools which might be destroyed to make way for a new supermarket. Education |
| 80% | SCREGGAN | Small Criss-crossed Region Erroneously Generated - Generally After New-year |
Tony McCoy O'Grady (Screggan is defined in 'The Meaning of Liff' by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd as meaning, 'The crossed-out bit caused by people putting the wrong year on their cheques all through January.') Words & Wordplay:Liffs |
| 100% | SCRIP | Shoddy Controls Ruin Internet Provider |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, in response to HALT. |
| 100% | SELL! | Secure Employment! Live Luxe! |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. |
| 100% | SELL CARS | Spec! Exhibit! Log Luxe Cars: Audi, Rolls, Simca! |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. Transport |
| 100% | SHIT | Shipping Handling Insurance & Tax |
Apronymous Anonymous |
| 93% | SHOP CATEGORIES | Shopkeepers Have Obviously Planned to Call Attention To Each Grouping - Order Related Items Easily, Shoppers! |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | SHOPPING | She Has One Philia, Purchasing Inexpensive (Not!) Gifts |
Robert Anonymous |
| 100% | SHOPPING BAG | String Handles Often Please Purchasers - I'll Now Go Buying Additional Groceries |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, as an example of something which is worse with NO STRINGS ATTACHED (String Handles) |
| 100% | SIGNATURE (2) | Smallprint Is Giving Nobody A Total Understanding... Refrain/Retract Endorsement. |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Law & Order |
| 100% | STOCKASTIC | Sales That Oscillate Chaotically Keep Any Stockpiling Tendencies In Check. |
Angela Brett, after reading a paper which mentioned stochastic sales, and thinking that perhaps 'stockastic' would be a better term. Words & Wordplay:Made Up Words |
| 100% | STOCKS AND SHARES | Seeking Tons Of Capital, Keen Shareholders Always Need Detailed Statements - Hopefully Annual Returns Escalate Sharply |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | STOP | Suspend Trading On Provider |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, in response to HALT. |
| 100% | SUPPLY CHAIN | Some Use Palmtop PCs/ Laptops - You Can Have Airbourne Information Network |
Angela Brett, thinking of recent TV ads showing the way a biscuit company makes use of tablet PCs with wireless internet to automate their 'supply chain'. |
| 100% | SURVIVE! (4) | Sensing Unresonable/Unexpected Rise Valiantly! Innovate Victory Enthusiastically/Energetically/Electrically! |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. Assorted Verbs |
| 100% | SWAP | Substitute Without A Prayer |
Rico Leffanta |
| 100% | SWAP (2) | Switch With A Peer's |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | TIP (4) | Thanks, Inexperienced Porter! |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | TIP (2) | The Insider: "Psssst..." |
Angela Brett Communication |
| 91% | THE CRANBERRIES TRADERS | Timbre Has Enchanting Characteristics, Ridiculous-thinkers Await New Bootlegs Eagerly & Really Rare Items are Expensive - Singles, Too, Require Ample Dough, Especially Rarer Songs. |
Angela Brett - Ridiculous-thinkers is a reference to the people on the Ridiculous Thoughts mailing list, a discussion/trading list about the Irish band The Cranberries. Entertainment:Music |
| 100% | TAB (2) | Taking A Bill |
Jan Morgan |
| 100% | TAB | Total A Bill |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | UNBEATABLE PRICES | Use No Banknotes Extra! Afford The Absolute Best Low Echelon Products! Rubbish Is Cheap, Expect Some. |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | UNBEATABLE PRICES (2) | Usually Nobody Believes Everything Advertised Today, Although Bigger Lies Easily Permit Retailers Instantly Contacting Every Sucker. |
Roger Williams |
| 100% | VAPORWARE | Venders Advertise Prematurely. Often Resources Wane And Research Ends. |
Roger Williams |
| 100% | VISA CARD | Vastly Increases Spending Ability... Can Also Raise Debts |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | VOUCHER | Value On Usage; Can Habitually Expire Rapidly |
Edwin Hermann (with the semicolon, the expansion talks about it having a value when you redeem it, and that the voucher can expire quickly, without the semicolon it talks about the value often expiring fast.) |
| 91% | WALL STREET | Want A Lot (of) Lolly? Selling Things Really Expensively Earns Thousands! |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | WAREHOUSE | Where A Retailing Empire Holds Over Unsold Stock Excess |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Places:Buildings |
| 100% | WHITE ELEPHANT SALE | We Have It Today! Everything Exotic! Ladies, Examine Pink Hammers And Neck Ties. See Amazing Luminous Eyemask! |
Angela Brett (referring to eye masks used for sleeping) |
| 100% | WINFIELD | Woolwoorth's Internal Name For Its 'Emulatory Label' Designs |
Tony McCoy O'Grady = Winfield is the name used by the Woolworth group for its 'own brand' label products. Winfield was the second forename of Frank W Woolworth who founded the company. Names:Famous people |
| 100% | WORK | Weed Out Recreational Knowledge |
Rico Leffanta People & Relationships:The Workforce |
| 86% | YUPPIE | You Use Phone in Porsche... It's Extravagant! |
Angela Brett People & Relationships |
| 100% | ZAIBATSU | Zen Associates Is Biased, Affluent Top Socialites United |
Jan Morgan |