Window dressing

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window dressing
n. display in the windows of stores, decoration of store windows; art and act of decorating the display windows of a store in an attractive manner; ostentatious misrepresentation intended to make favorable impression and hide something that is not pleasant


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window dressing
Noun
1. a showy misrepresentation intended to conceal something unpleasant
(synonym) facade
(hypernym) misrepresentation, deceit, deception
2. the decoration of shop windows
(hypernym) decoration

 
window-dress
Verb
1. make something appear superficially attractive; "The researcher tried to dress up the uninteresting data"; "Don't try to dress up the unpleasant truth"
(synonym) dress up
(hypernym) beautify, embellish, prettify



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Window dressing
Used in the context of general equities. Trading activity near the end of a quarter or fiscal year that is designed to dress up a portfolio to be presented to clients or shareholders. For example, a portfolio manager may sell losing positions in his portfolio so he can display only positions that have gained in value.

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window dressing
Synonyms and related words:
acting, adjunct, adornment, affectation, anteriority, appearance, arrangement, attitudinizing, bluff, bluffing, bold front, brave face, brave front, cheating, color, color patterns, coloring, deception, decor, decoration, delusion, disguise, display, dissemblance, dissembling, dissimulation, elaboration, embellishment, emblazonment, emblazonry, embroidery, facade, face, facet, facia, fakery, faking, false air, false front, false show, falsity, feigning, feint, flourish, flower arrangement, fore, forefront, foreground, forehand, foreland, forepart, forequarter, foreside, foreword, four-flushing, fraud, front, front elevation, front man, front matter, front page, front view, frontage, frontal, frontier, frontispiece, furniture arrangement, garnish, garnishment, garniture, gilt, gloss, head, heading, humbug, humbuggery, illumination, imposture, lap, masquerade, meretriciousness, obverse, ornament, ornamentation, ostentation, outward show, playacting, pose, posing, posture, preface, prefix, pretense, pretension, pretext, priority, proscenium, put-on, representation, seeming, semblance, sham, show, simulacrum, simulation, speciousness, trim, trimming, varnish, veneer
  

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Window dressing
Window dressing
(Econ) Sự làm đẹp báo cáo tài chính.+ Một thông lệ ở Anh đã bị xoá bỏ năm 1946, mà theo đó các ngân hàng thanh toán bù trừ London lấy tiền vay từ những thị trường chiết khấu vào những ngày mà họ phải làm đẹp báo cáo tài chính tuần (hoặc tháng từ sau những năm 1939) nhằm mục đích thể hiện trạng thái tiền mặt cao hơn hệ số bình quân mà chúng thực giữ.
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window-dressing
window-dressing /'windou,dresi /
danh từ nghệ thuật bày hàng ở tủ kính (thông tục) bề ngoài loè loẹt gi dối
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