(n.) A record of something which it is desired to remember; a note to help the memory.
(n.) A brief or informal note in writing of some transaction, or an outline of an intended instrument; an instrument drawn up in a brief and compendious form.
Example Sentences:
(1) Unions have complained about the process for Chinese-backed companies to bring overseas workers to Australia for projects worth at least $150m, because the memorandum of understanding says “there will be no requirement for labour market testing” to enter into an investment facilitation arrangements (IFA).
(2) She was presented with a memorandum, rated “top secret and strictly personal”, by Charles Powell, her foreign affairs adviser.
(3) This Memorandum discusses the problems and techniques involved in the detection of carriers of haemophilia A (blood coagulation factor VIII deficiency) and haemophilia B (factor IX deficiency), particularly with a view to its application to genetic counselling.
(4) Each trial was initiated by a brief alerting diffuse flash preceding presentation of the memorandum (sample); the latter was a lighted circle (red or green, 1.5 s) to be retained by the animal during a subsequent delay for correct behavioral response (color match).
(5) In an open letter to the college Fran Fuller, chair of BASW, says that the plans were a surprise, as the organisations have a memorandum of understanding in place and have spent "many weeks" positively discussing the college's development.
(6) The leaked memorandum makes clear that the target of the heightened surveillance efforts are the delegations from Angola, Cameroon, Chile, Mexico, Guinea and Pakistan at the UN headquarters in New York - the so-called 'Middle Six' delegations whose votes are being fought over by the pro-war party, led by the US and Britain, and the party arguing for more time for UN inspections, led by France, China and Russia.
(7) Europe must save Greece to save itself | Timothy Garton Ash Read more Moreover, the government has failed to articulate a concrete, progressive, forward-looking reform agenda, and move beyond its populist talking points to aggressively embrace the urgently needed structural reforms, many of which are outlined in the memorandum.
(8) The firm, i4Health, lobbied the new Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) in July 2013 for a memorandum of understanding to "ensure that requests [for patient data] from life sciences receive prompt attention", an examination of the stakeholder forums of HSCIC shows.
(9) Or the Memorandum of Understanding signed between the Netherlands and Mexico pledging to work together on flood risk management .
(10) He said there was no sign of an economic turnaround and Italy should sign a memorandum of understanding with the EU on structural reforms to get lower borrowing costs.
(11) Tony Abbott signed memorandums of understanding with all state premiers and territory chief ministers at Friday’s Council of Australian Governments (Coag) meeting.
(12) Yet Caroline Krass, a top lawyer in the office of legal counsel, whom Obama nominated to become the CIA’s chief attorney, told the panel on Tuesday that the Senate panel was n ot entitled to the memorandums , which she described as “pre-decisional” and therefore beyond Senate prerogative.
(13) This memorandum proposes a standardized system of reporting the histology of human lymph nodes based on commonly used simple staining techniques.
(14) It called for the bill to “be amended or, if not possible, the explanatory memorandum of the bill be clarified, to confirm that the commonwealth director of public prosecution must take into account the public interest, including the public interest in publication, before initiating a prosecution”.
(15) This memorandum reviews recent developments in viral immunopathology, with special reference to animal model systems, and indicates the possible relevance of the new concepts and techniques for certain diseases of man.
(16) In a memorandum of understanding setting up this project, user requirements were to be defined for the hardware and software used for data acquisition, processing and presentation.
(17) But aides insist that while the party's tone may have changed – a byproduct of being forced to grow up abruptly – its overarching objective remains the same: abolition of the memorandum outlining the terms of Athens's bailout and renegotiation of the loan agreement it has signed with its partners.
(18) It sounds terribly woolly, and it is – the report is full of "principles of stewardship", memorandums of understanding and statements of best practice.
(19) "It is food that is aimed for the thousands of Greek families blighted by the genocidal policies of the memorandum," said the party, referring to the loan agreement Athens has signed with international creditors to keep the debt-crippled country afloat.
(20) In other conditions placed on the new memorandum of understanding, Israel would no longer be allowed to spend over a quarter of the military aid on home-produced weaponry, and would instead be required the full amount on US arms.
Tickler
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, tickles.
(n.) Something puzzling or difficult.
(n.) A book containing a memorandum of notes and debts arranged in the order of their maturity.
(n.) A prong used by coopers to extract bungs from casks.
Example Sentences:
(1) We describe a system using an addressograph card and tickler file to facilitate the lending and returning of radiographic jackets, which brings into accountability both the borrower and the lender.
(2) This study investigates the influence of a microcomputer tickler system on the ordering of mammograms.
(3) Use of "tickler files" or scanning of computerized records are considerably less common practices.
(4) The reversal of these contact-sex roles (female tickler vs. male cuddler) did not affect the developmental preference for less cuddling stimulation of the 3 oldest groups of girls; however, the youngest girls now avoided male cuddlers, while the boys were found to prefer male cuddlers at all 4 age levels.
(5) Many was the time I had felt the Tickler in her hand.
(6) Since then it's been a parade of leading chanteuses, from X Factor winner Leona Lewis to ivory-tickler Alicia Keys, with even some rockers entering the fray.
(7) This developmental decrease was most prevalent, for both boys and girls, when the contact agents were a female cuddler versus a male tickler.
(8) Then it was up and over, every man, to shake the hand of a foe as a friend, or slap his back like a brother would; exchanging gifts of biscuits, tea, Maconochie's stew, Tickler's jam … for cognac, sausages, cigars, beer, sauerkraut; or chase six hares, who jumped from a cabbage-patch, or find a ball and make of a battleground a football pitch.
(9) Unlike the Oscars, the Globes split their key categories in two – and the classification of Birdman as a rib-tickler rather than a mordant study of middle-aged failure may have helped catapult it to the frontrunner at this year’s awards, with seven nominations.
(10) He will have to do it (Clarkson's Australian accent is a rib-tickler) on Skype.