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stanley

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for stanley.

Editorial note

The book is by Stanley and Danko, who are not affiliated with Fidelity according to their bio.

Examples18
Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

A habitational surname from Old English.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of stanley gathered in one view.

noun

A habitational surname from Old English.

noun

A male given name transferred from the surname, popular in the early 20th century.

noun

Any of several places, outside England named for persons with the surname:

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for stanley.

noun

A habitational surname from Old English.

noun

A male given name transferred from the surname, popular in the early 20th century.

noun

Any of several places, outside England named for persons with the surname:

noun

A town, the capital of the Falkland Islands, also known as Port Stanley.

Example sentences

1

The book is by Stanley and Danko, who are not affiliated with Fidelity according to their bio.

2

Morgan Stanley wealth management has Bob who plays pickup basketball on the weekend with a bunch of doctors.

3

A 2006 retrospective by Stanley and co-author Michelle Muratori[2] examines the education of Tao and of Lenhard Ng, another very precocious mathematics learner.

4

The Doble and Stanley era cars seem to have gotten about 10 mpg.

5

Fortunately, chemical weapons specialist, Doctor Stanley Goodspeed saved the day.

6

I inherited an actively managed Morgan Stanley portfolio which has fees around 2-3% annually.

7

How did Morgan Stanley fare in their previous predictions?

8

If the CEO was a Morgan Stanley alum, maybe, having a CFO from that background doesn't seem to be all that strong of a signal of anything.

9

The fact that the current CFO is a long-term Morgan Stanley alum should be a pretty strong signal about the direction the board wants to take Google.

10

I was interested in steam cars for a while, I have a manual to a Stanley Steamer and a short book published by Lindsay on them.

11

I had opportunity to correspond with Stanley before he died, and the evolution of his views about the education of mathematically precocious young people is quite interesting.

12

I'm currently listening to an account of the de-centralized command structure Gen Stanley Mcchrystal put in place to combat Al Quaeda in Iraq and the taliban in Afghanistan.

Quote examples

1

I hope the answer is "No" so that we don't all of a sudden hear that Morgan Stanley et al had exposure to the Chinese market using some exotic investment vehicle and we suddenly find out there is financial contagion outside of Chinese borders.

2

The deal, advised by Morgan Stanley, includes Singapore’s Temasek Holdings as well as venture-capital firms Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, GGV Capital, China Broadband Capital and Horizon Ventures." That's a hell of a lot of Chinese investors.

3

They've already blamed Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, and Soros for having a role: "In the past few days, rumors have circulated on the Wechat messaging service that “international capital” — or simply capitalism itself — was attacking China.

Proper noun examples

1

Yep - don't know about the rest but my former employer, Morgan Stanley, has a mandatory vacation policy (MVP) in place.

2

Other major institutions, such as Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, and Bank of America, encountered similar liquidity shortages.

3

Scala is probably the larger of the two options - big users notably include Twitter, Linkedin, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan, Walmart and Reuters.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use stanley in a sentence?

The book is by Stanley and Danko, who are not affiliated with Fidelity according to their bio.

What does stanley mean?

A habitational surname from Old English.

What part of speech is stanley?

stanley is commonly used as noun.