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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

behind the curve en · ADP

Meanings

  1. Out of date.
    • Toyota used to be a company with foresight, always ready to take action, but now they have fallen very far behind the curve. 2010 February 4, Alan Ohnsman with Yuki Hagiwara, “Toyota Plans Media Blitz as Stock Loses $21 Billion”, in BusinessWeek:
    • But in his 1996 novel, Holy Fire, [Bruce] Sterling imagines a rather different future: a world ruled by an all-powerful gerontocracy, which appropriates most of the world's wealth to pay for ever more costly life-extension techniques. […] When the novel first came out, it seemed that Sterling was behind the curve. 1997 March 9, Paul Krugman, “Does Getting Old Cost Society Too Much?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
  2. (US) Not making the progress required.

Antonyms

ahead of the curve

Translations (3)

nb ikke henge med i svingene (out of date) · pl nie na czasie (out of date) · nb passé (out of date)