Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Lengthened; unduly protracted.
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Examples
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Every person I have met who leads a spun-out organisation is motivated by social purpose.
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Also, it would have proved very expensive to build a new brand and new corporate structure for the spun-out unit, not to mention the lost opportunity to increase sales by bundling lots of hardware together for customers.
H-P Decides Now It's OK to Be a PC Rolfe Winkler 2011
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Every person I have met who leads a spun-out organisation is motivated by social purpose.
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For all the hype, there are still only a small number of spun-out public sector businesses, and many employ fewer than 100 people.
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For all the hype, there are still only a small number of spun-out public sector businesses, and many employ fewer than 100 people.
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As I approach the beginning of my fifth year in this field and with the benefit of having spun-out almost 50 university startups during this period, I have taken a moment to reflect on what I have seen and am seeing occur.
Dave Lerner: The Coming Entrepreneurial Tidal Wave: University Entrepreneurship 2.0 2010
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The first movement is a grandly spun-out funeral march, its climaxes bordering on the depressive.
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Second, existing shareholders would get shares of a spun-out company created to hold some weaker GGP assets.
Decoding General Growth's Formula John Jannarone 2010
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The reason: Under another part of the bill, banks would be limited to investing a small amount of assets in spun-out funds.
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As I approach the beginning of my fifth year in this field and with the benefit of having spun-out almost 50 university startups during this period, I have taken a moment to reflect on what I have seen and am seeing occur.
Dave Lerner: The Coming Entrepreneurial Tidal Wave: University Entrepreneurship 2.0 Dave Lerner 2010
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