n. an abbreviation for 'cellular phone.'
v. the act of calling someone else's cellular phone.
n. "My dad wants to use the phone, call my cell so we can keep talking."
v. "I'm not here at the moment, cell if you need me."
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Refers to the way we tend to look at other peopleâs lives and other things that we don't have in general through rose colored glasses.
Comes from the idea of looking at a neighbours lawn and seeing it as better looking, healthier and overall greener then your own when in reality youâre just ignoring anything negative about it and downplaying everything positive about your own.
Friend#1: Youâre so lucky, you went to a great college, have money and youâre so smart and will probably accomplish more by the time youâre 30 then I will in my entire life.
Friend#2: Are you serious? Iâve always envied you. People expect so much out of me. Iâve never been able to have a life because of studying and other schoolwork. If I get less then an A, people freak out like I got an F. I may accomplish that much, but with all the pressure on me Iâll probably be insane by the time Iâm 35. In so many ways, I wish I could just be a regular guy with normal expectations and a normal life.
Friend#1: Wow, I honestly never looked at it that way. I guess it's true that the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.
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When a company hires another company to do some aspect of its work for it.
Examples of this include (but are not limited to):
* Stores using another companies cleaning services for cleaning its floors etc (rather then having employees of their own hired as full time cleaners).
* An ISP using a third party for its e-mail services rather then using servers of their own.
* A company in need of call centre services using a third person company rather then building a call centre of its own.
Companies often outsource to save money. However, it's also possible they want to concentrate on their main service and allow another company to worry about secondary ones (ie, companies whose main service are those secondary ones).
Outsourcing unfortunatly costs jobs domestically when companies outsource overseas. This is why people dislike it so much.
Poor guys unemployed because his employer outsourced his job overseas.
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