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  • 21person-to-person — adjective only before noun 1. ) AMERICAN a person to person call is a telephone call that you ask the OPERATOR to arrange with a specific person, so that you do not have to pay for the call if they are not available 2. ) relating to direct… …

    Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • 22Person — (de) Person (langsame) Zömmelöm (der) Person (magere) Rebbegespens (et) Person (raffgierige) Raafalles (der) Person (schwatzhafte) Schnadder (de) Person (vorwitzige) Vürwetznas (de) …

    Kölsch Dialekt Lexikon

  • 23Person of interest — is a phrase used by law enforcement when announcing the name of someone involved in a criminal investigation who has not yet been arrested or formally accused of a crime. It is often used as a euphemism for suspect , and can sometimes result in a …

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  • 24person — Under Title 11 U.S.C. Section 101: (41) The term person includes individual, partnership, and corporation, but does not include governmental unit, except that a governmental unit that (A) acquires an asset from a person (i) as a result of the… …

    Glossary of Bankruptcy

  • 25person-to-person — UK US /ˌpɜːsəntəˈpɜːsən/ adverb ► talking to or meeting someone directly: »We decided to discuss the merger person to person …

    Financial and business terms

  • 26person-to-person lending — UK US noun [U] ► FINANCE the act of lending money to someone without using a bank or financial organization: »The person to person lending service allows you to structure formal loans with people you know …

    Financial and business terms

  • 27person-to-person — adj [only before noun] involving communication between people ▪ E mail provides a way of sending person to person messages almost instantaneously …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 28Person — Sf std. (12. Jh.), mhd. persōn[e] Entlehnung. Entlehnt aus l. persōna (auch: Charakter, Rolle , eigentlich Maske [des Schauspielers] ), dessen Herkunft umstritten ist. Adjektive: personal, personell, persönlich.    Ebenso nndl. persoon, ne.… …

    Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen sprache

  • 29person — early 13c., from O.Fr. persone human being (12c., Fr. personne), from L. persona human being, originally character in a drama, mask, possibly borrowed from Etruscan phersu mask. This may be related to Gk. Persephone. The use of person to replace… …

    Etymology dictionary

  • 30-person — 1. The use of person as a gender neutral suffix denoting occupations instead of man began in the 1970s with chairperson (see CHAIRMAN), and has spread rather more slowly than might have been expected, possibly because of a reluctance to adopt… …

    Modern English usage