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Tue 8 Jul, 2008 06:44 pm
Quote:That trend takes place even within the productive sector of the industrialized world. Connected by the Internet to similar industrial and financial institutions around the world, transnational enterprises operate in the global marketplace served by staffs that often have longer tenure than those of governments and fewer restrictions on their analyses.
What does "analysis" mean in this context?
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It's the plural form of analysis (based on the plural noun subject to which it relates). It's a straight-forward definition and can be found in any online or physical dictionary. As the ever-popular Merriam-Webster dictionary defines it:
"the separation of an intellectual or substantial whole into one of its constituent parts for individual study or
the stated findings of such separation or determination "
Still not clear about the meaning or use of analysis
Quote:That trend takes place even within the productive sector of the industrialized world. Connected by the Internet to similar industrial and financial institutions around the world, transnational enterprises operate in the global marketplace served by staffs that often have longer tenure than those of governments and fewer restrictions on their analyses.
What are the restrictions imposed on "their analysis"? I am still not clear about the usage of this noun.
I would think that there are government imposed restraints on what they are able to say about any analysis they produce, whereas in the world exchange of ideas, they are not restricted by rules and regulations or less so.
The clue is in: staffs that often have longer tenure than those of governments and fewer restrictions on their analyses.
Apparently there are people who have been in their job a long time and are free to offer their analysis of the global marketplace activity.
"Transnational enterprises" have fewer restrictions on their analyses because they are connected by the Internet and because their staffs face fewer regulations than those of government.