alacrity
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a·lac·ri·ty
/ əˈlakritē/
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n.
brisk and cheerful readiness:
she accepted the invitation with alacrity.
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Meet the marines.(Letter to the Editor)
Magazine article from: National Review; 5/17/2004; ; 81 words
; ...and inspiring piece on Marine recruits ( Few, Proud, Remarkable, May 3). Among the important characteristics he touches on is alacrity --a valuable asset in the military, sports, and business. More journalists, of all political stripes, should follow Lowry's...
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Alacrity to resell Com21's access systems.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
Newspaper article from: Telecomworldwire; 7/3/2001; 104 words
; TELECOMWORLDWIRE-3 July 2001-Alacrity to resell Com21's access systems...access systems developer Com21 Inc and Alacrity Networks, a new company specialising...understanding. The agreement will permit Alacrity to resell Com21's ComUNITY access...
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Alacrinet Consulting sees kiosks as next wave of business opportunities: teaming with IBM gave a boost to name recognition.(SAN DIEGO'S FASTEST 100 GROWING PRIVATELY HELD COMPANIES 2007)(Alacrinet Consulting Services)(International Business Machines Corp.)
Magazine article from: San Diego Business Journal; 9/24/2007; ; 644 words
; ...put name recognition and trust behind Alacrinet, whose name is based on the root word alacrity, meaning promptness or willingness and cheerful readiness. IBM awards partnership status after a business demonstrates a high level of customer...
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Ready for the Other Millennium Bomb?
Magazine article from: Chief Executive (U.S.); 7/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; Business managed the Y2K bug with some alacrity, but savvy CEOs must now prepare for the millennium's next...just one example of a real threat that was managed with some alacrity. After all, had Erlich's alarming predictions of resource shortages...
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Let us not have any illusions.(Columnist)(same-sex marriage role in culture wars)
Magazine article from: Catholic Insight; 2/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; The alacrity with which Paul Martin and his Liberal colleagues (in both parliament and the courts) are leading Canadians over the marriage abyss...
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How the media pack got it wrong.(Editorial)(Editorial)
Magazine article from: Quadrant; 11/1/2004; 700+ words
; WITH THEIR USUAL alacrity, the Australian media hardly missed a beat before carrying on as if their behaviour, bias, and lack of recognition of reality during...
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The Workings of the Subtle Heart.(Brief article)(Book review)
Newspaper article from: Small Press Bookwatch; 6/1/2008; 91 words
; The Workings of the Subtle Heart William Widmer Alacrity Books PO Box 1168 Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031 9780979756207, $17.95, alacritybooks@aol.com Empathy--how one understands his fellow...
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THE VOCABULARY.(Poem)
Magazine article from: Poetry; 10/1/1999; ; 362 words
; When was the last time something ensued ? When was the last time anybody acted with alacrity ? was dilatory ? dyspeptic ? This is language disappearing from our breath, the way no hieroglyphic document of the third millennium...
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When wars collide: war on drugs vs. war on terror.(Citing)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Reason; 4/1/2005; ; 276 words
; As DEMOCRACY attempts to take root in Afghanistan, the poppy crop is doing so with greater alacrity. Opium cultivation was up a staggering two-thirds in 2004 over the previous year, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs...
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Rolling back the state. (Ethiopia)(East Africa)
Magazine article from: African Business; 1/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; Ethiopia's economy is undergoing massive changes as the Government follows the free market path with growing alacrity. Andrew Lycett reports on the privatisations and anti-corruption drives that are marking the new era. Pressing ahead with its commitment...
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alacrity
Book article from: Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes
alacrity • banditti , bitty, chitty, city, committee, ditty, gritty, intercity, kitty, nitty-gritty, Pitti, pity, pretty...regularity, secularity, similarity, singularity, solidarity, subsidiarity, unitarity, vernacularity, vulgarity •alacrity • sacristy • ambidexterity , asperity, ...
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allegro
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
allegro XVII. — It., repr. L. alacer brisk (see ALACRITY ).
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Kolchak, Alexander Vasilievich
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
...broke down in his ranks. At the time of the Bolshevik seizure of power in October, Kolchak was abroad. But he responded with alacrity to the invitation of General Dimitry L. Horvath, manager of the Chinese Eastern Railway, to help coordinate the anti-Bolshevik...
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ARCADIA
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II
...executive director of the newly-established War Production Board , to set US production targets higher. This was achieved with such alacrity that apart from aircraft (the deliveries of which had to be cut by half because of USAAF expansion) the UK, during the first...
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ULTRA
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II
...claimed, showed little interest, as did Bertrand's own superiors; the Poles, on the other hand, accepted Bertrand's proposal with alacrity, though with little hope of being able to exploit it. However, using Asche's guidelines and a commercial ENIGMA, Marian Rejewski...
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