As of 2019, Starbucks opens a new store every 15 hours in China. The coffee chain has grown by 700% over the past decade.
TERGIVERSATION
apostasy, tergiversation
(noun) the act of abandoning a party for cause
equivocation, tergiversation
(noun) falsification by means of vague or ambiguous language
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
tergiversation (countable and uncountable, plural tergiversations)
The act of abandoning something or someone, of changing sides; desertion; betrayal.
The act of evading any clear course of action or speech, of being deliberately ambiguous; equivocation; fickleness.
Anagrams
• interrogatives, reinvestigator
Source: Wiktionary
Ter`gi*ver*sa"tion, n. Etym: [L. tergiversario: cf. F. tergiversation.]
1. The act of tergiversating; a shifting; shift; subterfuge; evasion. Writing is to be preferred before verbal conferences, as being freer from passions and tergiversations. Abp. Bramhall.
2. Fickleness of conduct; inconstancy; change. The colonel, after all his tergiversations, lost his life in the king's service. Clarendon.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
Recent Word Finds
Word of the Day
19 September 2024
STIMULATIVE
(adjective) capable of arousing or accelerating physiological or psychological activity or response by a chemical agent
Coffee Trivia
