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Phrases 36
- indirect costAny cost that is not directly accountable to a cost object (such as a particular project, facility, function, or product). They include administration, personnel and security costs.
- indirect costsplural of indirect cost: Any cost that is not directly accountable to a cost object (such as a particular project, facility, function, or product). They include administration, personnel and security costs.
- indirect objectA grammatical role of a ditransitive verb that manifests a secondary or passive participant in an action, often a recipient or goal.
- indirect free kicka free kick from which a goal may be scored only after the ball has been played by at least one other player
- indirect questionA question expressed through a subordinate clause whose syntax conforms to that of a statement.
- indirect taxA tax that is levied upon goods and services before they reach the customer who ultimately pays the indirect tax as a part of the market price of the goods or services purchased.
- indirect kissThe act of touching with one's lips an object that someone else has touched with one's lips recently, symbolizing a kiss between the two people. Often used in the context of shared food.
- indirect democracySynonym of representative democracy: A form of government where the people elect representatives who, on their behalf, propose and approve laws and administer the government.
- indirect electionAn election process in which elected persons (directly elected by voters) who will then vote and elect their choice of president.
- indirect electionsplural of indirect election: An election process in which elected persons (directly elected by voters) who will then vote and elect their choice of president.
- indirect fireThe aiming and firing of a projectile without relying on a direct line of sight between the weapon and its target, especially at either very close ranges (such as mortar fire) or very far ranges (up to the limits of artillery range); the …
- indirect objectsplural of indirect object: A grammatical role of a ditransitive verb that manifests a secondary or passive participant in an action, often a recipient or goal.
- indirect procurementThe procurement of goods and services that are not directly related to manufacturing such as those used for maintenance and supplies that are consumed in the production process.
- indirect speechSynonym of reported speech: A grammatical construction used to represent another person's words, thoughts, or statements indirectly rather than by quoting them verbatim, often involving a change in tense.
- indirect taxesplural of indirect tax: A tax that is levied upon goods and services before they reach the customer who ultimately pays the indirect tax as a part of the market price of the goods or services purchased.
- free indirect speechThe literary device of writing a character's first-person thoughts in the voice of the third-person narrator.
- indirect discourseSynonym of reported speech: A grammatical construction used to represent another person's words, thoughts, or statements indirectly rather than by quoting them verbatim, often involving a change in tense.
- indirect realismSynonym of representationalism (“the belief that the conscious perception of the world is actually an internal replica of the world in the mind of the beholder”)
- indirect free kicksplural of indirect free kick: a free kick from which a goal may be scored only after the ball has been played by at least one other player
- free indirect discourseSynonym of free indirect speech: The literary device of writing a character's first-person thoughts in the voice of the third-person narrator.
- indirect quotationAn utterance in which one person states what someone else said, but framed as an object within a larger clause without quotation marks (when in written form) and sometimes, but not necessarily, repeating their exact words verbatim.
- indirect transitiveTaking an indirect object.
- indirect anagramA cryptic device, forbidden in most publications, in which the word to be anagrammed is not present in the wordplay.
- indirect questionsplural of indirect question: A question expressed through a subordinate clause whose syntax conforms to that of a statement.
- indirect reportan employee who is indirectly under the supervision of a particular manager
Compound words 5
- indirectlyIn an indirect manner.
- indirectionAn indirect action or process.
- indirectnessThe condition of being indirect.
- indirectionsplural of indirection: An indirect action or process.
- indirectnessesplural of indirectness: The condition of being indirect.