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Business Definition for: Dead Ringer

  • an automatically dialed telemarketing call that cuts off when answered because there is nobody at the sender's end available to deal with it

Wiktionary Definition for: Dead Ringer

  • # idiom Someone or something that very closely resembles another; someone or something easily mistaken for another.
  • Ex:''He is a '''dead ringer''' for his grandfather at that age.''

Additional Resources

JAN'S A DEAD RINGER FOR A LOSER
DEAD Ringers star Jan Ravens hit a dead-end last night when she was booted off the BBC's Strictly Come Dancing. The 48-year-old impressionist was in tears as she turned to the judges and said: "I hope you're happy now." Jan thanked her partner Anton Du Beke, who...
Tags: British Broadcasting Corp., microphone
Research articles 2006-11-05
RALLYING: McRae reactivates Ringer partnership
COLIN McRAE has decided to end his partnership with his co-driver Nicky Grist to team up with Derek Ringer, who partnered him to the World Championship for Subaru in 1995. McRae has won 17 rallies for the Subaru and Ford teams during a six-year partnership with Grist,...
Tags: FINANCE, Ford Motor Co., partnership, Subaru
Research articles 2002-10-09
Mci's Dead Ringer - MCI Communications Corp. stock analysis - Brief Article
STOCKS | Its 15% yield could blind you to problems of a TERMINALLY ILL business.
Tags: MCI Inc., stock
Research articles 2001-09-01
'The Ringer' won't set any records
The Ringer ** Stars: Johnny Knoxville, Katherine Heigl, Brian Cox, Jed Rees, Bill Chott Director: Barry W. Blaustein Distributor: 20th Century Fox Rating: PG-13 for crude and sexual humor, language, drug references Running Time: 1 hour, 34 minutes Opens today nationwide ---...
Tags: 20th Century Fox, director, uncle
Research articles 2005-12-23
Frank RICH
THERE has been no more unlikely movie star this season than Robert McNamara, the only living character in Errol Morris' documentary "The Fog of War." The 87-year-old McNamara -- who, as the Washington Post film critic Stephen Hunter pointed out, is a dead ringer for Gollum in "The Lord of...
Tags: administration, Ford Motor Co., Government, Iraq, president, Vietnam, White House
Research articles 2004-01-25
Face of innovation
Byline: By Steve Hughes When i was a kid I used to see a face in the front of every car, with the grille as the mouth and the headlamps as eyes. Some were smiling and some were sad, while others resembled animals. Ford's Scorpio is generally acknowledged...
Tags: innovation, Nissan Motor Co. Ltd.
Research articles 2005-08-19
New York Times bestsellers
FICTION Last week/Weeks on list 1. The DaVinci Code, 1/11 by Dan Brown 2. Naked Prey, 2/3 by John Sandford 3. The Guardian, 3/8 by Nicholas Sparks 4. The Face, --/1 ...
Tags: New York Times Co., SALES
Research articles 2003-06-15
Don't shoot the drummer. (political activist and singer Darryl Cherney) (Interview)
Free the dead! [chorus: Free the dead!] Free the dead! [Free the dead!] Feed them to the maggots, bears and worms. Free the dead! [Free the dead!] Free the dead! ...
Tags: activist, environmentalist, FBI, Georgia-Pacific Corp., Government, music, worker
Research articles 1993-09-01
New York Times best sellers
FICTION Last week/Weeks on list 1. The DaVinci Code, 1/12 by Dan Brown 2. Naked Prey, 2/4 by John Sandford 3. The Guardian, 3/9 by Nicholas Sparks 4. The Face, 4/2...
Tags: New York Times Co., SALES
Research articles 2003-06-22
Hitting the wrong Hudd-lines!
Byline: By James Hunter The very follically-challenged referee Mark Cooper is a dead ringer for Italian super-ref Pierluigi Collina. Unfortunately, that's where the likeness ends. For while Collina is acknowledged as the best in the world, Cooper's clangers were the talk of the Stadium of Light at...
Tags: Clark, Cooper, Games
Research articles 2003-09-24
Wearmen hit all the wrong Hudd-lines!
Byline: By James Hunter The very follically-challenged referee Mark Cooper is a dead ringer for Italian super-ref Pierluigi Collina. Unfortunately, that's where the likeness ends. For while Collina is acknowledged as the best in the world, Cooper's clangers were the talk of the Stadium of Light at...
Tags: Clark, Cooper, Games
Research articles 2003-09-24
Brokers Gain from NYSE's TRF Pass Through Rebate
NYSE Euronext, in a move that could impact Nasdaq and other exchanges, has thrown a ringer into the business of facilitating broker-dealer prints. NYSE Euronext, in a move that could impact Nasdaq and other exchanges, has thrown a ringer into the business of facilitating broker-dealer prints.
Tags: New York Stock Exchange
Research articles 2007-06-01
Brokers Gain from NYSE's TRF Pass Through Rebate.
NYSE Euronext, in a move that could impact Nasdaq and other exchanges, has thrown a ringer into the business of facilitating broker-dealer prints. NYSE Euronext, in a move that could impact Nasdaq and other exchanges, has thrown a ringer into the business of facilitating...
Tags: New York Stock Exchange
Research articles 2007-06-01
Focus is on a family look; Steve Hughes gives his verdict on the new Ford hatchback
Byline: Steve Hughes SPOT the latest Ford Focus coming towards you and it might be mistaken for a Mondeo. Not exactly a dead-ringer perhaps but much more of the new family likeness. Ford calls it kinetic design, which embraces some styling cues that will gradually be incorporated...
Tags: Ford Motor Co., HARDWARE, Storage
Research articles 2007-12-07
Changing chocs trigger oddball complaint
PARIS AFP — British doctors have made a tongue-in-cheek complaint to a chocolate manufacturer after the firm changed the shape of two sweets that could be used to measure testicles in pubescent boys. The problem focuses on wrapped chocolates called Teasers and Truffles, whose 8mm oval shape was a...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, HEALTHCARE, manufacturer, Manufacturing
Research articles 2007-12-20
Raucous -- or just petty?
SO what really caused state Senate President Pro Tem Don Perata, D-Oakland, to strip state Sen. Joe Simitian, D-Palo Alto, of his chairmanship of the senate's Environmental Quality Committee? The Insider doesn't really know (One thing the Insider does know: Perata is pretty much a dead ringer...
Tags: attorney, Leadership, Litigation, MARKETING, Sen., U.S. Senate
Research articles 2008-02-16
Who needs US celebs when you've got Paris Milton? TOM SHIELDS ON
WALKING down Byres Road, I noticed this blonde girl. As you do. She was a dead ringer for Paris Hilton. Being a trained reporter, I listened as I passed the young lady for any evidence of a transatlantic accent, in case it really was Ms Hilton. ...
Tags: CAREER, Glasgow, Hilton Hotels Corp., Microsoft Corp., Paris, Wiki
Research articles 2007-10-07
Racepoint Wins Bell Ringer Award for Public Relations Excellence; Issues Response Work for Yankee Group Recognized by Publicity Club of New England
WALTHAM, Mass. -- Racepoint Group, Inc., one of the fastest-growing public relations and marketing consultancies focused on emerging leaders in the technology, health and science industries, today announced that the Publicity Club of New England has awarded the agency its prestigious Bell Ringer award in the category of Response to...
Tags: public relations, The Yankee Group
Research articles 2006-06-09
America at War: The call of despair : 5,506 TOLL OF MISSING AND DEAD
THE feared death toll after the New York terror attacks jumped to 5,506 last night. New figures broke down the casualties as follows: New York World Trade Center dead - 152, missing feared dead 4,963; American Airlines Flight 11 - 92 dead; United Airlines Flight 175 -...
Tags: American Airlines, FBI, Government
Research articles 2001-09-16
Lookalike doll of Indian minister sells briskly ahead of elections
PATNA, India AFP — Indian Railway Minister Laloo Prasad Yadav is beaming after a doll in his likeness has been snapped up from toy stores in the state of Bihar where he will soon contest elections. The plump doll, called Lalooji, sports a mop of white hair and is...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Government, SOFTWARE
Research articles 2005-06-06
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