Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
| Domain | Definition |
Economics | Unofficial consultative committee set up by the British ( Labour ) Government in order to examine specific problems in the contest of traditional economics strategies. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: THINK-TANK |
| Specialty definitions using "THINK-TANK": Cato Institute ♦ Foreign Policy Centre ♦ Heritage Foundation ♦ Institute for Policy Studies ♦ King's Fund ♦ World Perspectives Inc.. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Netherlands | The government's think-tank Central Planning Bureau or CPB observes that with average annual output of 13 percent, the ICT sector quadrupled the growth rate achieved by other sectors in the Dutch economy. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "THINK-TANK" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "THINK-TANK" is used about 52 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 52 | 47,145 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "THINK-TANK"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Dutch | think tank, denktank, denkfabriek. (various references) | ||||||||||
French | laboratoire d'idées, centrale à matière grise. (various references) | ||||||||||
German | think-tank. (various references) | ||||||||||
Hungarian | kutatóközpont. (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | serbatoio di pensiero, fabbrica di idee. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ink-tankthay голова (bonce, chump, conk, head, jowl, knob, nob, noggin, noodle, nut, pate), башка (cocoanut, nob, noddle, noggin, noodlehead, thinking mug, tupenny). (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-h-i-k-k-n-n-t-t" | |
-4 letters: khaki, ninth, taint, takin, thank, think, titan. | |
-5 letters: akin, ankh, anti, haik, hank, hant, hint, ikat, kain, kaki, khan, khat, kina, kink, kith, knit, tain, tank, than, that, thin, tint. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Crosswords 2. Quotations: Non-fiction 3. Usage Frequency 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Anagrams 6. Bibliography |
Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
