rachet

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The Olm rachet was also audited by NCC, so that's nice.

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mechanical device consisting of a toothed wheel or rack engaged with a pawl that permits it to move in only one direction

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noun

mechanical device consisting of a toothed wheel or rack engaged with a pawl that permits it to move in only one direction

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for rachet.

noun

mechanical device consisting of a toothed wheel or rack engaged with a pawl that permits it to move in only one direction

Example sentences

The Olm rachet was also audited by NCC, so that's nice.

So they are incentivized to rachet up the risk.

My contract had rachet in that ratchets up more months the longer you are at job.

"But maybe the rachet had been tightened too far and they, if they even exist, just don't see a way?

It covers nice things like liquidation preferences, rachet clauses and other things that will make your head spin!

Then politicians turn into rachet-jawed purveyors of monkey doodle and baked wind.

But if it's the case that no one likes working and that one usually works to only eat, then you throw a rachet into the mix and start eating just enough to work.

Twitter-dramatic people rachet up their Karpman Drama Triangle histrionics against celebrities to try to get something juicy to up their social media currency.

At one point I had exchanged a malfunctioning .5" drive rachet using their famous lifetime warranty, only to have the noticably inferior replacement start malfunctioning months later.