drop-dead
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英语
编辑副词
编辑- (非正式) 惊人地,壮丽地
- My date was drop-dead gorgeous!
- 我对象非常漂亮/帅气!(一般用于像这样搭配gorgeous)
- (非正式,無比較級,商業,法律) 最终地,不能更改地,定死地
- drop-dead date ― 严格遵守的日期
- 2003, Joseph W. Bartlett, Ross Barrett, Michael Butler, Advanced Private Equity Term Sheets and Series A Documents:
- The intruding investor (VC #2) makes an offer at a pre-money valuation of $15 million, subject to due diligence, and the expiration of the "drop dead" date, meaning the date in the initial investor's term sheet when exclusivity expires.
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- 2010, Richard L. Daft, The Executive and the Elephant,第 96 頁:
- As the drop-dead date approaches, my mind becomes more focused.
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- 2019, Lynn M. LoPucki, Elizabeth Warren, Robert M. Lawless, Secured Transactions: A Systems Approach,第 107 頁:
- If the assets [of a steel mill] were not sold by a fixed date, […] the “drop-dead” provision of the settlement agreement would take effect. Under that provision, the mills would be closed, the stay would be lifted, and the secured creditors would take possession. Probably neither the debtor nor the secured creditors believed that a sale could be completed before the drop-dead date.
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