window dressing
11Window Dressing — A strategy used by mutual fund and portfolio managers near the year or quarter end to improve the appearance of the portfolio/fund performance before presenting it to clients or shareholders. To window dress, the fund manager will sell stocks… …
12Window dressing — For drapery, shades, shutters, etc. see Window covering Window dressings are mannequins and so forth in a store’s display window to be viewed from the hall or sidewalk outside of the store. Putting a display of merchandise or holiday decorations… …
13window dressing — noun (U) 1 something that is intended to give people a favourable idea about your plans or activities, and to stop them seeing the true situation: All these glossy pamphlets are just window dressing the fact is that the new mall will ruin the… …
14window dressing — {n. phr.} An elaborate exterior, sometimes designed to conceal one s real motives. * /All those fancy invitations turned out to be nothing but window dressing./ * /All he really wanted was to be introduced to my influential father in law./ …
15window dressing — {n. phr.} An elaborate exterior, sometimes designed to conceal one s real motives. * /All those fancy invitations turned out to be nothing but window dressing./ * /All he really wanted was to be introduced to my influential father in law./ …
16window-dressing — win·dow dress·ing also win·dow dress·ing (wĭnʹdō drĕs ĭng) n. 1. a. Decorative exhibition of retail merchandise in store windows. b. Goods and trimmings used in such displays. 2. A means of improving appearances or creating a falsely favorable… …
17window dressing — 1. the art, act, or technique of trimming the display windows of a store. 2. misrepresentation of something, so as to give a favorable impression: The company s list of assets included a great deal of window dressing. [1780 90] * * * …
18window dressing — noun a) The decorative display of retail merchandise in store windows These latest modifications are mere window dressing, the same problems remain. b) The goods and trimmings used in such display …
19window-dressing — (Roget s Thesaurus II) also window dressing noun A deceptive outward appearance: cloak, color, coloring, cover, disguise, disguisement, façade, face, false colors, front, gloss, guise, mask, masquerade, pretense, pretext, semblance, show, veil,… …
20window\ dressing — n. phr. An elaborate exterior, sometimes designed to conceal one s real motives. All those fancy invitations turned out to be nothing but window dressing. All he really wanted was to be introduced to my influential father in law …
