(v. t.) To run away, or escape privately, from the place or station to which one is bound by duty; -- said especially of a woman or a man, either married or unmarried, who runs away with a paramour or a sweetheart.
Example Sentences:
(1) While Elop has critics who say he did not fix Nokia or much of anything else in his long career in tech, others are likely to point to a pedigree that would also make him the favorite here.
(2) Elop denies it is in talks about a takeover by Microsoft .
(3) Elop says Nokia is considering them, and looking into platform options such as Windows 8 , Windows RT – as used on the Microsoft Surface – and even Android.
(4) The marketing department will now report directly to Elop, and a management reshuffle has seen key staff replaced and US executive Chris Weber – who, like Elop, previously worked for Microsoft – promoted to run sales and marketing.
(5) Nokia's chief executive, Stephen Elop, said : "This settlement ... enables us to focus on further licensing opportunities in the mobile communications market."
(6) Stephen Elop is the odds-on favourite to become Microsoft's next CEO ( see 8.51am ), but do you think he's got what it takes to replace Steve Ballmer and take the company forward?
(7) For example, we rejected the traditional wedding day and we eloped to Las Vegas when our son, Conrad, was three.
(8) Claire McComb, spokesperson for the East London Out Project (ELOP), a gay and lesbian outreach organisation, says: "Homophobia is equivalent to racism, sexism, ageism, sizeism and prejudice against disability, yet this is often disregarded in favour of conflicting personal values.
(9) Vote here: Should Stephen Elop take over at Microsoft?
(10) Elop managed to make Nokia actually sell *less* phones, quite a feat given how the smartphone market exploded.
(11) Nevertheless, Elop believes Nokia's downsizing and outplacement programmes are a good thing for Finland.
(12) Their 18-year relationship made a gut-wrenching but fascinating public story, which began with romantic passion, high hopes and an elopement to Spain.
(13) "Yes, you can call it [Android] open source but in practicality, you're getting more and more constrained on what's possible in that environment," Elop says.
(14) This is the challenge Elop, and Nokia more generally, faces – a smartphone market where the Lumia is in a tiny minority.
(15) Nokia's future as an independent company is hanging in the balance and Microsoft could be forced to rescue the business if chief executive Stephen Elop cannot resuscitate the group's smartphone business by the end of the year, analysts have warned.
(16) Asked why his strategy had not yet produced results, Elop said there was "frustration" because so few consumers were aware of Nokia's new products: "We have truly great products but aren't getting the traction that we would prefer."
(17) Here's a selection on the Microsoft-Nokia deal: os2baba 03 September 2013 8:28am If ever there was a Trojan horse... Stephen Elop sure fits the bill.
(18) "Stephen Elop is running out of time," said Francisco Jeronimo at telecoms research firm IDC.
(19) The two companies announced the outline for the deal in London in February, after Elop had courted both Google and Microsoft, choosing between the Android mobile operating system – now the world's most-used on smartphones – and Windows Phone, which was only introduced in October 2010 and has had a lukewarm reception from customers.
(20) Ram had married but his wife – a woman who had three children when she effectively eloped with him – died of an illness without bearing him a child of his own.
Paramour
Definition:
(n.) A lover, of either sex; a wooer or a mistress (formerly in a good sense, now only in a bad one); one who takes the place, without possessing the rights, of a husband or wife; -- used of a man or a woman.
(n.) Love; gallantry.
(adv.) Alt. of Paramours
Example Sentences:
(1) The victims were usually illegitimate preschoolers; the assailants, usually the mothers or their paramours, had backgrounds of assaultiveness and social deviance and killed in impulsive rage.
(2) She would tramp to the village phone box and wait for some ringing and then quiz me about eating greens and clean handkerchiefs and comprehensively diss my dad, who had left home to "find himself" – in the arms of a local paramour.
(3) Together, the books sold 15m copies in 40 countries and spawned two Hollywood films starring Renée Zellweger as Bridget and Colin Firth and Hugh Grant as her warring paramours.
(4) There has been furious speculation over who might play the kinky business magnate and his paramour, though casting details have stubbornly refused to emerge.
(5) Avatar 2, 3 and 4 will also feature returning stars Sam Worthington, as disabled soldier turned swashbuckling Na'avi rebel Jake Sully, and Zoe Saldana as his alien paramour Neytiri.
(6) Harry Treadaway’s Victor Frankenstein buckled under the weight of his monstrous creations, succumbing to his morphine addiction and losing his undead paramour Lily.
(7) Publisher Jonathan Cape would only reveal that the novel "explores a different phase in Bridget's life", refusing to say if Bridget's perennial paramours, Mark Darcy and Daniel Cleaver, would make an appearance in the story, or if Bridget would have aged in real time, making her at least in her late 40s.
(8) Such is the difficulty of answering questions like, which village near Vienna is the site of the hunting lodge where the Habsburg crown prince Rudolf and his paramour Mary Vetsera committed suicide in mysterious circumstances in 1889 or which mythic Greek hero was the son of Telamon and the cousin of Achilles and was referred to as the “bulwark of the Achaeans” in Homer’s epic poem the Iliad, Pilkington has spurned the usual game and invented one of his own.
(9) Court battles and exposés revealed salacious details of Jefri's jetset lifestyle, including allegations of a harem of western paramours and a luxury yacht he owned called "Tits".
(10) In a 2007 comic book chapter, the original patriotic hero, Steve Rogers, was revealed to have died after being shot at close range by sometime paramour Sharon Carter, who had been hypnotised into committing the murder.
(11) I have no idea what circumstances led to Whittingdale’s former paramour becoming involved in sex work.
(12) Johnson, best known for small roles in the Oscar-winning The Social Network and comedy The Five Year Engagement, remains in the lead female role of Grey's blushing virginal paramour, Anastasia Steele.
(13) For a modest amount of money – certainly far less than it costs to start and maintain a human relationship – a growing number of websites now offer the services of pretend social media paramours.
(14) In an article in a college magazine, former student Stuart Delves called Jefferies and his colleagues in the English department "paramours of literature".
(15) There has been furious speculation over who might play kinky business magnate Christian Grey and his paramour Anastasia Steel in the film, with Ryan Gosling and Mila Kunis the current favourites with bookmakers .
(16) In an article written for a school magazine, Delves described Jefferies and his colleagues as "luminaries ... paramours of literature ... profound catalysts".
(17) But good sense isn't always good manners and there is still something of a stigma attached to admitting you know more about a potential paramour than you really should.
(18) Joking apart, Jagger, and Sophie Dahl's beau, Jamie Callum, may be interested to learn that scientists have just proved that 'Short man syndrome' is real, leastways in romance, and that the vertically challenged make intensely jealous paramours.
(19) Moyes, a name that, let's face it, sounds like a Yiddish word for eunuch, has endured 317 days of celibacy, whilst at Everton his former paramour, under the beguiling matador Martínez, is likely to claim the final Champions League place.