Arm's Length

Definition: Arm's Length

Arm's Length

Noun

1. A distance sufficient to exclude intimacy.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Defense

Parry, repel, propugn, put to flight; give a warm reception to; hold at bay, keep at bay, keep arm's length.

Discourtesy

Cut; turn one's back upon, turn on one's heel; give the cold shoulder; keep at a distance, keep at arm's length; look cool upon, look coldly upon, look black upon; show the door to, send away with a flea in the ear.

Distance

Apart, asunder; wide apart, wide asunder; longo intervallo; at arm's length.

Enmity

Verb: be inimical; Adjective: keep at arm's length, hold at arm's length; be at loggerheads; bear malice; fall out; take umbrage; harden the heart, alienate, estrange.

Recession

Keep at arm's length, turn one's back upon, give the cold shoulder; send off, send away with a flea in one's ear.

Seclusion Exclusion

Cut, cut dead; refuse to associate with, refuse to acknowledge; look cool upon, turn one's back upon, shut the door upon; repel, blackball, excommunicate, exclude, exile, expatriate; banish, outlaw, maroon, ostracize, proscribe, cut off from, send to Coventry, keep at arm's length, draw a cordon round.

Crosswords: Arm's Length

Health

They also may instruct a person to use a hair dryer, held at arm's length or directed across the face, to dry out the epithelial blisters. (references)

Economic History

Philippines

The BIR also issued guidelines on the determination of an arm's length price, where different methods under OECD rules on transfer pricing may be used as reference. (references)

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Expressions using "arm's length": At arm's length ♦ keep arm's length ♦ keep at arm's length ♦ keep smb. at an arm's length ♦ keep smb. at arm's length ♦ To keep at arm's length ♦ To work at arm's length. Additional references.

Chinese 

不即不離 (be neither too familiar nor too distant, keep sb at arm's length). (various references)

Dutch

de prijs werd vastgesteld door twee los van elkaar staande ondernemingen (the price was fixed on an arm's length basis). (various references)

French

pétrole cédé � des personnes non liées (oil disposed of at arm's length), commerce de pleine concurrence (arm's length trade). (various references)

German

anders als im Drittvergleich veräußertes Öl (oil disposed of at arm's length). (various references)

Hungarian

távol tart magától vkit (to keep sy at arm's length). (various references)

Pig Latin

arm'say engthlay

Romanian

ţine pe cineva la distanţã (keep smb. at a distance, keep smb. at an arm's length, keep smb. off). (various references)

Russian 

почтительный расстояние. (various references)

Spanish

mantener a uno a distancia (keep smb. at arm's length, keep smb. away), comercio realizado en condiciones de igualdad (arm's length trade). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: enthrals, garments, manglers, margents, strangle, tanglers, thermals, trashmen.

-4 letters: almners, anglers, anthems, anthers, antlers, argents, armlets, engrams, enthral, garment, garnets, gathers, gelants, germans, halters, hamlets, hamster, hangers, hantles, harslet, hetmans, laments, lamster, largest, lathers, lengths, magnets, mangels, mangers, mangler, mangles, mantels, mantles, margent, martens, rehangs, rentals, saltern, sarment, slather, smarten, stengah, sternal.

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