dibs

So, i basically agree that they are getting first dibs, but due little to Cialdini's rule on reciprocity.

The owner of the.co.uk has first dibs, so in this case there was no bidding war.

We make deals (recruiting contracts) with companies who really want first dibs on top talent.

Perhaps you could then have a cheaper membership that gave you a discount and entitled you to first dibs on available places etc.

City services need to operate, and they get first dibs on curb access.

Disney doesn't have first dibs on the idea of an Evil Queen with a magical talking mirror, seven dwarfs who live in a little house and so on.

If your income is sourced in the states, USA will say they have first dibs on it, but if you work in Thailand, Thailand technically has first dibs on it also; tax treaties don't really cover that!

Rent control also leads to gross nepotism where the relatives and friends of the wealthy are given first dibs on rent controlled properties by the owner of the tenement building.

Hence the paucity of hard data released to the public; the organisations have first dibs on the data to make their money back through publications and in attracting research funding.

Maybe Azure paid for first dibs, I don't know.

Wish I had a better setup for hosting tech folks, but my friends end up having perpetual dibs on my futon and sharing a single bathroom can suck...

If by PPP the median wage in the US is 10X over India, then for each H1-B granted India opens up 10 visas of the same duration for Americans by lottery (or give first dibs to anyone who is replaced by an H1-B).

Personally, I think of it as giving your employer "first dibs." "Hey, I've decided that I'm now worth $X.

If you guys want to get in on stuff, use "hackernews" as a code so I know to give you dibs over random people.

"We took the early risk, so we should get first dibs on the whole round." That went south because it was jeopardizing fundraising and angels didn't have deep enough pockets to do whole Series As anyway.