Some articles on firm, firms:
... In the case, for example, custom officials may harass a certain firm or production plant, officially stating they are checking for irregularities, halting production ... The disruption may cause losses to the firm that exceed the amount of money to pay off the official ... this issue in countries where there exists no firm system of reporting these semi-illegal activities ...
... In the 1980s and 1990s, KPF transformed from an American firm known for its corporate designs into an international firm with institutional, government, and transportation ... (1992), an early example of mixed-use design, further increased the firm’s international prominence and solidified the firm’s reputation as a progressive global practice ...
... In 2009, there were national handyman service firms which handle such nationwide tasks as public relations, marketing, advertising, and signage, but sell ... The websites of these firms put possible customers in touch with local owners, which have handypersons and trucks ... Typically these firms charge around $100/hour, although fees vary by locality and time of year ...
... The firm suffered a setback in 1980 when most of the Washington, D.C ... office split to form the firm Crowell Moring ... Since that time, Crowell has matured into a top 100 law firm in its own right while Jones Day has rebuilt its Washington, D.C ...
... In corporate finance, Economic Value Added or EVA, is an estimate of a firm's economic profit – being the value created in excess of the required return of the company's investors (being shareholders and ... Quite simply, EVA is the profit earned by the firm less the cost of financing the firm's capital ... The idea is that value is created when the return on the firm's economic capital employed is greater than the cost of that capital see Corporate finance working ...
More definitions of "firm":
- (verb): Make taut or tauter.
Synonyms: tauten
- (verb): Become taut or tauter.
Example: "Yur muscles will firm when you exercise regularly"
Synonyms: tauten
- (adj): Unwavering in devotion to friend or vow or cause.
Example: "A firm ally"
Synonyms: loyal, truehearted, fast
- (adj): (of especially a person's physical features) not shaking or trembling.
Example: "His voice was firm and confident"; "a firm step"
- (noun): Members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments.
Synonyms: house, business firm
- (adj): Pleasingly firm and fresh and making a crunching noise when chewed.
Example: "A firm apple"
Synonyms: crisp, crunchy
- (adj): Not soft or yielding to pressure.
Example: "A firm mattress"; "the snow was firm underfoot"
Synonyms: solid
- (adj): Securely established.
Example: "Holds a firm position as the country's leading poet"
Synonyms: established
- (adj): Marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable.
Example: "Firm convictions"; "a firm mouth"
Synonyms: steadfast, steady, unbendable, unfaltering, unshakable, unwavering
- (adj): Strong and sure.
Example: "A firm grasp"
Synonyms: strong
- (adv): With resolute determination.
Example: "You must stand firm"
Synonyms: firmly, steadfastly, unwaveringly
- (adj): Not liable to fluctuate or especially to fall.
Example: "Stocks are still firm"
Synonyms: steady, unfluctuating
- (adj): Marked by the tone and resiliency of healthy tissue.
Example: "Firm muscles"
- (adj): Not subject to revision or change.
Example: "A firm contract"; "a firm offer"
Famous quotes related to firm:
“Reason sits firm and holds the reins, and she will not let the feelings burst away and hurry her to wild chasms. The passions may rage furiously, like true heathens, as they are; and the desires may imagine all sorts of vain things: but judgement shall still have the last word in every argument, and the casting vote in every decision.”
—Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855)
“Evolution is the law of policies: Darwin said it, Socrates endorsed it, Cuvier proved it and established it for all time in his paper on ‘The Survival of the Fittest.’ These are illustrious names, this is a mighty doctrine: nothing can ever remove it from its firm base, nothing dissolve it, but evolution.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.”
—Barbra Streisand (b. 1942)
“What if we wake one shimmering morning to
Hear the fierce hammering
Of his firm knuckles
Hard on the door?
Shall we not shudder?”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“So far we have been going firmly ahead, feeling the firm ground of prejudice glide away beneath our feet which is always rather exhilarating, but what next? You will be waiting for the bit where we bog down, the bit where we take it all back, and sure enough that’s going to come but it will take time.”
—J.L. (John Langshaw)