Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Something, especially a choice or decision, that is so obvious or easy as to require little or no thought.
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- noun informal An
easy orobvious conclusion ,decision ,solution ,task , etc.; something requiring little or nothought .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun anything that requires little thought
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Examples
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And he was going to be in Denver for the Fly Tackle Dealer Show anyway, so it was what they call a no-brainer.
Fool’s Paradise John Gierach 2008
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And he was going to be in Denver for the Fly Tackle Dealer Show anyway, so it was what they call a no-brainer.
Fool’s Paradise John Gierach 2008
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And he was going to be in Denver for the Fly Tackle Dealer Show anyway, so it was what they call a no-brainer.
Fool’s Paradise John Gierach 2008
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And he was going to be in Denver for the Fly Tackle Dealer Show anyway, so it was what they call a no-brainer.
Fool’s Paradise John Gierach 2008
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Now industry players are wondering how a project whose approval was called a "no-brainer" by Mr. Harper has instead been left to founder.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed NATHAN VANDERKLIPPE 2011
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Well that, Mr. Skimmer, is what we at City Hall call a no-brainer!
Unearthly Asylum P. J. Bracegirdle 2010
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Well that, Mr. Skimmer, is what we at City Hall call a no-brainer!
Unearthly Asylum P. J. Bracegirdle 2010
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In newspapers and on talk shows across Canada this week following President Barack Obama's decision to delay the $7 billion Keystone-XL pipeline that Prime Minister Harper had famously called a "no-brainer," there's been no shortage of Monday-morning quarterbacking and questions about what went wrong with the proposed project.
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It was a decision that the magazine's executive editor, John Knight, describes as a "no-brainer."
Wired Top Stories Keith Axline 2011
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For those in elected office trying to scale the clean economy, shouldn't kicking these highly profitable, mature industries off the dole have been a policy and political no-brainer?
Mike Casey: Message Indiscipline and a Missed Opportunity for Clean Energy Mike Casey 2011
jmjarmstrong commented on the word no-brainer
JM reckons lobotomy is a no-brainer.
June 19, 2011