tip

Language: EN · Kind: word · Transcription: [/tɪp/]

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1. tip (noun) — sense 1

Definition: A piece of private or secret information, especially imparted by someone with expert knowledge about sporting odds, business performance etc.

Example: hot stock tips

2. tip (noun) — sense 2

Definition: A piece of advice.

Example: tips and tricks

3. tip (noun) — sense 3

Definition: A prediction of the winning team in a football game by a participant in a footy tipping competition.

Example: Thus, this is a tricky tip; Port’s inconsistency combined with the higher ladder placing of Adelaide have me leaning the latter’s way.

4. tip (verb) — sense 4

Definition: To give a piece of private information to; to inform (someone) of a clue, secret knowledge, etc.

Example: Dirks was an investment analyst who learned from a former employee of Equity Funding that the company had been fraudulently manufacturing insurance policies. Dirks tipped several institutions which then liquidated $16 million in Equity Funding stock before the fraud was exposed and the bottom fell out of the market. According to the Court, Dirks was a hero for (eventually) exposing the fraud. The SEC's censure of Dirks for tipping inside information was reversed because, the Supreme Court held, the liability of a tippee derives from that of the tipper. If the tipper is without sin, so is the tippee. Here, the employee's purpose in informing Dirks was to expose the fraud, so the tipper breached no duty. Moreover, according to the Court, for there to be a breach of duty, there must be personal benefit (in the form of pecuniary gain or reputational benefit that will translate into future earnings) arising to the tipper from the disclosure.

5. tip (verb) — sense 5

Definition: To enter a prediction of the winning team of a football game, as part of a footy tipping competition.

Example: The rest of Saturday’s games have tantalising opportunities for upsets – but I’m going to tip conservatively.

6. tip (verb) — sense 6

Definition: To predict something having a particular outcome.

Example: I'm tipping that, although complex accounting treatments tend to separate capital items and recurrent programs and impede overall visibility, there are significant overspends across the infrastructure portfolio.

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