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But the term is ill-defined, so explain references to it in earnings articles and also include net income, the figure required by the SEC and accountants.

Essential Guide to Business Style and Usage PAUL R. MARTIN 2002

But the term is ill-defined, so explain references to it in earnings articles and also include net income, the figure required by the SEC and accountants.

Essential Guide to Business Style and Usage PAUL R. MARTIN 2002

We along with the PSOne camp can't fathom playing a game that's simple, without competitive elements, or lacking in some ill-defined sense of substance.

Wii Music, Coda SVGL 2009

In the search for answers, there is no reason to stop at M-theory, which is not strictly speaking a theory at all but an ill-defined speculation about how string theory, itself a speculation about quantum gravity, may cohere.

Clay Farris Naff: Are We The Reason For The Universe's Existence? The Anthropic Principle Reconsidered Clay Farris Naff 2012

It might help, at least, to stop applying this ill-defined term to anyone who works, unpaid, for longer than three weeks.

Sure, you can 'work'. Just don't expect a job at the end of it | Catherine Bennett 2012

"We have more than 100,000 troops in Afghanistan risking life and limb, at a cost of $10 billion a month, to pursue ill-defined goals whose achievement" can only barely be imagined.

Terence Smith: Two Good Columns Terence Smith 2011

In the search for answers, there is no reason to stop at M-theory, which is not strictly speaking a theory at all but an ill-defined speculation about how string theory, itself a speculation about quantum gravity, may cohere.

Clay Farris Naff: Are We The Reason For The Universe's Existence? The Anthropic Principle Reconsidered Clay Farris Naff 2012

Don´t cross that often ill-defined "macho" line or do so at your peril.

Page 2 2009

In other words having a real-world, timely-measurable, good impact on a group of people for whom their problems and the relevance of technologies for solutions are open and ill-defined questions at the beginning of study, raises significant challenges and ones that seem at odds with the ways that Computer Science does disciplinary business.

Reflections on ICT4D « Beki's Blog (there's an original name) 2009

We could see now, as we had not a few short weeks earlier when Henry first began behaving strangely, that mental illness was a mysterious, ill-defined disorder, wholly different from physical ills like tuberculosis or cholera, which could be cured with the right medicine.

Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn 2011