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  2. List of English abbreviations made by shortening words

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    (with initial capital) Mediterranean (the sea or the surrounding area) meg megabyte memo memorandum meth methamphetamine meths methylated spirits Mex or Mexi Mexican mezc mescaline mike or mic microphone mig milligram mg mil military millilitre Minn Minnesota Miss Mississippi mod moderator modern modification modular modulo mono monaural ...

  3. Workplace politics - Wikipedia

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    In other words, political landscape is what defines relationships between colleagues at a given time. Drafting of this landscape begins with the leaders of the organization influencing the formal hierarchy ; which defines the reporting structure and indicates the political setup of the organization as it was initially intended.

  4. Jugaad - Wikipedia

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    Another variant of the jugaad called chakkda rickshaw, a motorcycle modified into a tri-wheeler with truck wheels in the rear is used in the Gujarat state of India. [ 17 ] A variant of jugaad in Pakistan is a motorcycle made into a motorized trike called chand-gari meaning "moon vehicle" or chingchee after the Chinese company Jinan Qingqi who ...

  5. Availability heuristic - Wikipedia

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    Many researchers have attempted to identify the psychological process which creates the availability heuristic. Tversky and Kahneman argue that the number of examples recalled from memory is used to infer the frequency with which such instances occur. In an experiment to test this explanation, participants listened to lists of names containing ei

  6. Overachievement - Wikipedia

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    The ability to concentrate and to work in a dedicated manner cannot be separated from a person's "native" or "raw" intelligence in any meaningfully testable way. A 2007 book about overachievement describes the "cult of overachieving that is prevalent in many middle- and upper-class schools", in which "students are obsessed with success ...

  7. Performance rating (work measurement) - Wikipedia

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    Performance rating helps people do their jobs better, identifies training and education needs, assigns people to work they can excel in, and maintains fairness in salaries, benefits, promotion, hiring, and firing. Most workers want to know how they are doing on the job. Workers need performance feedback to work effectively.

  8. Abbreviation - Wikipedia

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    An abbreviation (from Latin brevis, meaning "short" [1]) is a shortened form of a word or phrase, by any method including shortening, contraction, initialism (which includes acronym) or crasis. An abbreviation may be a shortened form of a word, usually ended with a trailing period. For example: etc. is the usual abbreviation for et cetera.

  9. Academic achievement - Wikipedia

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    Academic achievement or academic performance is the extent to which a student, teacher or institution has attained their short or long-term educational goals. Completion of educational benchmarks such as secondary school diplomas and bachelor's degrees represent academic achievement.