| 词汇 | open-ended |
| 释义 | open-ended adjective uk /ˌəʊ.pənˈen.dɪd/ us /ˌoʊ.pənˈen.dɪd/ An open-ended activity or situation does not have a planned ending, so it may develop in several ways: 无结论的;无限制的;未预作安排的 We are not willing to enter into open-ended discussions.我们不想无休止地讨论下去。 Uncertainty amorphous be neither fish nor fowlidiom blurringly blurry circumstantial indeterminacy indeterminate indeterminately insecurely insecurity murky shakiness shallowly slippery spec squishy wavery wifty wishy-washy you never knowidiom open-ended | Business Englishopen-ended adjective uk /ˌəʊpənˈendɪd/us (US alsoopen-end) without an end date or planned way of ending: Several of the transit worker unions have stated that their strike would be open-ended. They employ their temporary workers on open-ended contracts. an open-ended approach/commitment/responsePrivate business cannot be expected to enter into an open-ended commitment to fund any cost overruns. open-ended discussions FINANCE → open-end used to describe a question that cannot be answered with 'yes' or 'no': an open-ended item/question/surveyThe survey included an open-ended question asking employees what advice they would give to management. Examples of open-endedopen-ended To let respondents spontaneously express their opinions, an open-ended question requested of them to list conditions in their companies which they found attractive and unattractive. Five starting prices, which were chosen based on answers to open-ended questions in the pilot survey, were assigned to respondents randomly and roughly proportionately. The interview consisted of a series of open-ended questions, plus an option to give additional information or opinions. Subjects completed self-report measures, and were then interviewed by research psychologists and psychiatrists who administered structured and open-ended assessment schedules. This flexible, open-ended approach to visual style automates qualitative rerepresentations, learns from the data set unsupervised, and modifies assessments according to design context. The incentive to put forward underfinanced proposals is weakened compared to a system where entitlement appropriations are open-ended. The 'open-ended' responses were categorized into two general areas: admitted carelessness ('not careful', 'didn't follow prescription', 'removed diaphragm too soon', etc.) and medical-technical problems. Individual minds mutually interact within this converging landscape in an open-ended time horizon, exploiting its features in distinctive ways. For crops, an open-ended question was used so that farmers could list the crops they grew. Thirdly, there is no recognition that dissemination is an open-ended activity which, if it is to be completed satisfactorily, might extend over several years. For open-ended questions, results were summarised by grouping similar opinions and by calculating the percentages for particular opinions. The open-ended responses generated a myriad of issues that were coded and organized along themes. They are offered as an open-ended entitlement to those urban households whose income falls below the officially defined poverty thresholds, with variations among cities. One author reviewed the open-ended responses and identified a respondent as having one of the 17 chronic conditions when appropriate. The open-ended nature of this term gives the citizen no determinate legal guidance on what kind of manipulative conduct is to be avoided. See all examples of open-ended These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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