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ADJECTIVE firm COMPARATIVE firmer SUPERLATIVE firmest
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firm English

Meaning firm meaning

What does firm mean?
Definitions in simple English

firm Noun

— A firm is a group of people who work together as a business. John &; John is a law firm. — A firm is a group of people that come together to make money.

firm Adjective

— A firm object is hard and solid.

firm

— noun (= house) the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments he worked for a brokerage house — adjective (= steadfast, unbendable, unwavering) marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable firm convictions a firm mouth steadfast resolve a man of unbendable perseverence unwavering loyalty — adjective (= strong) strong and sure a firm grasp gave a strong pull on the rope — adjective (= solid) not soft or yielding to pressure a firm mattress the snow was firm underfoot solid ground — adjective not subject to revision or change a firm contract a firm offer — adjective securely established holds a firm position as the country's leading poet — adjective (of especially a person's physical features) not shaking or trembling his voice was firm and confident a firm step — adjective not liable to fluctuate or especially to fall stocks are still firm — adverb (= firmly) with resolute determination we firmly believed it you must stand firm — adjective possessing the tone and resiliency of healthy tissue firm muscles — adjective (= loyal, fast) unwavering in devotion to friend or vow or cause a firm ally loyal supporters the true-hearted soldier...of Tippecanoe — Campaign song for William Henry Harrison fast friends — adjective securely fixed in place the post was still firm after being hit by the car — verb (= tauten) make taut or tauter tauten a rope — verb (= tauten) become taut or tauter Your muscles will firm when you exercise regularly the rope tautened

Synonyms firm synonyms

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firm English » English

solid strong hard steady company stable steadfast resolute fixed stiff enterprise corporation tight determined business sturdy constant concern tough secure unyielding fast rigid establishment durable permanent firmly unwavering unshakable robust immovable stout staunch sound settled inflexible unflinching stubborn safe house difficult business firm adamant unswerving unshaken uncompromising strict stern reliable definite

Topics firm topics

What do people use firm to talk about?
States Quality Made of, material

Hard, firm
Person Body

Flesh
Work and occupation

Business organization
Physical actions Move Manner of movement

Steady, unsteady
Language and thought Think Opinion

Change your mind
Work and occupation Working with buildings Parts of a building

Foundation

Conjugation firm conjugation

How do you conjugate firm?

firm · verb

Examples firm examples

How do I use firm in a sentence?

Simple sentences

A truck driver crashed into garage door on the premises of our firm.
Our firm deals with manufacturing of painting tools.
Next year, I will have been working with that firm for ten years.
The firm went under due to lack of capital.
We made a contract with the firm.
Mary and I remained firm friends for years.
The runner has firm muscles.
There's a rumor in the air that the firm is going into bankruptcy.
The firm provides its workers with their uniforms, but they are expected to have them regularly cleaned.
Last summer, I finally left the firm that I had joined twelve years before.
This firm prints a lot of educational books.
This firm manufactures cars at the rate of two hundred per day.
This firm has a hundred employees.
Chances of promotion are slim in this firm.
My uncle manages a firm.
My future is closely bound up with the finances of my firm.
I got a temporary job at the firm.
The firm has a great deal of trust in your ability.
Our friendship remained firm.
I have a firm belief in his innocence.
It is rumored that the firm is going to tie up with an American company.
The firm is known for its high-quality products.
The firm publishes educational books.
The firm is under foreign management.
Please forward this message along with the seminar information to the appropriate managers in your firm.
I felt like a fish out of water at this firm.

Movie subtitles

I mean, landing him would make us West Covina's premiere law firm.
Whole firm is counting on you.
But I have the consolation that my good Mother died in the firm belief that I was ill.
The unconquerable pride of the Mauprats poisoned the useless quarrel, each holding firm to their position.
Yearlings and spring veal showed a firm tone.
Well, it appears that my agent, mr. Dawker. that my agent happens to know the firm who in the old days employed your wife.
The Saxonia company will never sign. unless your firm is tied up with the Manchester people.
Haven't I just shown you here. what my firm exports to the Balkans?
I'm at liberty to announce at this time that the deal between my firm. and the Manchester Cotton Company. has been successfully negotiated.
Stand firm tomorrow!
I hope her bones are firm.
I stand firm!
I'm John Cedar, of the New York firm of Cedar, Cedar, Cedar and Budington.
He's firm.
When you get your new job as traveler for the firm, i'm going to a bigger, better house than this.
But I declare that Heep, and Heep only of the firm Wickfield and Heep, Is a forger and cheat! Liar!
I'm John Cedar, of the New York firm of Cedar, Cedar, Cedar Budington.
An excellent firm.
To the firm of Dillard and Sons, a venerable institution a financial colossus with branches in New York Boston, London and Paris.
Son, if you just come to realize it, what she needs is a firm hand.
You must be firm with inferiors, but gentle with them. Especially darkies.
Hold your reins properly in a firm hand.
Just get firm pressure on the trigger.
So be firm, Joe.
Say, listen. Haven't I just shown you here. what my firm exports to the Balkans? 50,000 marks worth of mop rags each and every year.
There's some that it's better for them to have a firm hand over them.
My firm desires to improve upon its medical formula.
Your stock in this firm is in your wife's name.
Ah, young and firm and full of life!
If you dip into the firm's money, at Ieast be able to repay it.
You must be firm with inferiors, but gentle with them.
Just get firm pressure on the trigger. On the trigger.

News and current affairs

Accounting rules are designed to provide standardized frameworks within which the financial position of a firm, or government, can be assessed.
So, yes, there are plenty of vaguely plausible reasons why the euro, despite its drawn-out crisis, has remained so firm against the dollar so far.
At the same time, the liberalization of FDI regimes by virtually all countries has been a driving force of intra-firm trade - the lifeblood of the emerging system of integrated international production and already around one-third of world trade.
Should we place our faith in the Kyoto Treaty, which sets firm limits on human emissions of so-called greenhouse gases?
But, while the goal of Chapter 11 is to save the ongoing value of a firm, the goal of the international resolution mechanism should be to preserve the ongoing value of the counterparties of insolvent financial institutions.
American Congressmen view the Chinese as archetypal currency manipulators, but the Swiss have introduced a firm cap on the franc's appreciation.
It was a brilliant strategic decision, allowing the firm to offer dozens of new product lines and services.
Low interest rates help to contain the cost of sterilization at the national level and reduce costs at the firm level - again at the expense of households.
The fact that Cao was detained after the 1989 Beijing Massacre, expelled from the Party, spent time abroad lecturing, and now runs a research consulting firm, seemed no impediment.
When, in Angola, one brave firm, BP, wanted to do the right thing by trying to make sure that oil royalties actually go to the government, rather than to corrupt officials, other oil companies refused to go along.
Investors need assurance that information received adequately reflects the economic situation of a firm.
The two styles of capitalism can be contrasted as the family firm versus the post-modern firm.
The US-style post-modern firm sees market dominance in terms of branding, or a manipulation of images that gives intellectual hegemony and can lead to market dominance.
This sort of firm is also very common in the most dynamic emerging-market economies in Asia and Latin America.
Indeed, so competent is Olam that when Wilmar, a Southeast Asian firm run by overseas Chinese and a force in its own right in China and across Asia, sought to expand in Africa, it sought out Olam in a joint venture.
If the Estrada saga leads to a firm yet dignified exercise of justice, Filipinos may discover a taste for more of the same.
This initiative has the firm political backing of both countries' leaders, and expresses a clear determination to unite against common threats.
By contrast, in a company whose business is financial intermediation, millions of judgments are made independently, and their implications may be serious enough to threaten the entire firm.
By making these commitments, the MEF leaders, whose countries account for more than three-quarters of global emissions, would lay a firm foundation for success in Copenhagen.
But the decentralized, dispersed nature of many industries, the absence of an effective regulatory infrastructure, and the lack of firm-level inducements undermine the effectiveness of this approach.
Some, like Poland and the Baltic states, have consistently denounced Russia's actions and have demanded a firm response.
Multinational enterprises can do that within their integrated global production networks, which allow them to organize an international intra-firm division of labor.
Yet, between all-out containment, which is very unlikely and not necessarily desirable or realistic, and accommodation which borders on appeasement, which would be dangerous for Europe's future, a third way, based on a few firm principles, must be found.

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