kitchen-sinking
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See also: kitchen sinking
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌkɪt͡ʃ(ɪ)nˈsɪŋkɪŋ/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˌkɪt͡ʃ(ə)nˈsɪŋkɪŋ/
- Rhymes: -ɪŋkɪŋ
- Hyphenation: kit‧chen-sink‧ing
Etymology
[edit]From kitchen sink (noun) + -ing (suffix forming nouns denoting the acts of doing things), referring to terms like everything but the kitchen sink and throw the kitchen sink at. The term is attested earlier than kitchen sink (verb).[1]
Noun
[edit]kitchen-sinking (plural kitchen-sinkings)
- The act of raising unrelated complaints and other matters during an argument.
- (business) The act or practice of releasing a large amount of information about the poor financial results of a company in one go, in the hope that there will be less impact.
Alternative forms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]- kitchen sink (verb, back-formation)
Translations
[edit]act or practice of releasing a large amount of information about the poor financial results of a company in one go
References
[edit]- ^ “kitchen-sinking, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, July 2023; “kitchen-sinking, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.