skilling

[ skil-ing ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

skilling

[ skil-ing ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

skilling

/ ˈskɪlɪŋ /

1690–1700; < Danish; cognate with shilling

C18: from Danish and Swedish; see shilling

The company is melting down, and Chief Operating Officer Jeff Skilling comes to see CEO Kenneth Lay.

Skilling was indicted on 35 counts of fraud and insider trading related to the Enron collapse.

Skilling's plight and fight are of little interest; he's been in prison for the last 3.5 years, with many more to follow.

The appeal, however, is not likely to spring Skilling from his prison cell in Colorado.

Yes, which leads me to a fascination with the cult leader, which is in a way what Skilling was at ENRON.

"But by this means he brings a skilling home," said the old woman.

Of the year 1836, one writer asserts: En Daler ei gjldt mere end to norske Skilling, and that many lost all their property.

It is near enough for our purpose to say that a mark is twenty-two cents, and a skilling one cent.

“Twenty-four skillings make a mark, and a skilling is about a halfpenny English,” Ole explained.

In this court, too, the butter is generally churned, under a "skilling" which covers half of it.

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