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Bus/Financial - Business/Commerce (general) | | English term or phrase: bootstrap | We will bootstrap off of her efforts and we will make an application to recover the 4% fee from the escrow.
What does "bootstrap" mean here specifically? Does the sentence mean, "we will help her and try to get 4% fee from the escrow"? Thank you. |
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| | English translation:help ourselves [out of this mess] | Explanation:
... by building on the work already done by this woman to recover the 4% from escrow.
I read your text as suggesting that the authors are the ones in the difficulty and they are explaining the self-help they intend to exercise in the wake of someone or something not coming through.
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Sorry. "... by building on the work already done by this woman, and we will make an application to recover the 4% from escrow."
It's not clear that the woman's efforts were toward getting the 4%, but it is clear that the authors intend to (1) engage in self-help, (2) build on her efforts and (3) make the application.
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Definitions
help oneself, often through improvised means
http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
Bootstrapping alludes to a German legend about a Baron Münchhausen, who was able to lift himself out of a swamp by pulling himself up by his own hair. In later versions he was using his own boot straps to pull himself out of the sea which gave rise to the term .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrap
(I didn't know that story!) |
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 Deborah Workman
United States
Local time: 02:47
| Grading comment Thank you to all, thank you very much.
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1 hr confidence: peer agreement (net): +2 help ourselves [out of this mess]
Explanation:
... by building on the work already done by this woman to recover the 4% from escrow.
I read your text as suggesting that the authors are the ones in the difficulty and they are explaining the self-help they intend to exercise in the wake of someone or something not coming through.
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Note added at 1 hr (2007-08-11 00:34:48 GMT)
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Sorry. "... by building on the work already done by this woman, and we will make an application to recover the 4% from escrow."
It's not clear that the woman's efforts were toward getting the 4%, but it is clear that the authors intend to (1) engage in self-help, (2) build on her efforts and (3) make the application.
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Note added at 1 hr (2007-08-11 01:00:52 GMT)
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Definitions
help oneself, often through improvised means
http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
Bootstrapping alludes to a German legend about a Baron Münchhausen, who was able to lift himself out of a swamp by pulling himself up by his own hair. In later versions he was using his own boot straps to pull himself out of the sea which gave rise to the term .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrap
(I didn't know that story!)
| Deborah Workman
United States
Local time: 02:47
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Native speaker of:  English
PRO pts in category: 28
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| | Grading comment | Thank you to all, thank you very much. |
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Asker: Oh, geez, I made a mistake. I wanted to select you and give you points. Oh, I'm so sorry, I'm sorry to Eng2span too. Oh, no, I'll make sure I'll select you next time. I'm not quite used to this site, geez, your answer was much helpful, Deborah. Sorry about this everyone. Truly sorry. Thanks to Deborah again, and to everyone, very much appreciate it.
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| Aug 10, 2007 - Changes made by Fabio Descalzi: | | Field | Law/Patents => Bus/Financial | | Aug 10, 2007 - Changes made by Fabio Descalzi: | | Term asked | boostrap => bootstrap |
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