undistributed
Britishadjective
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logic (of a term) referring only to some members of the class designated by the term, as doctors in some doctors are overworked
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commerce (of a profit) not paid in dividends to the shareholders of a company but retained to help finance its trading
Example Sentences
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Observing that none of his five feature films were available in the United States, Mr. Brody wrote that Mr. Rozier “gets the award for Best French Director Undistributed Here.”
From New York Times • Jun. 13, 2023
Massachusetts' sour-faced Treadway, ranking Republican on the committee, recalled that Mr. Morgenthau's counsel, the late Herman Oliphant, had argued "at very great length and very emphatically" for the Undistributed Profits Tax only two years ago.
From Time Magazine Archive
Herman Oliphant, a law scholar before he was a financier and a liberal before he was a lawyer, was the prime advocate of the Undistributed Profits Tax, written into the tax law of 1936.
From Time Magazine Archive
This is not a case of C not being D. Affirmation of Consequent = Undistributed Middle.
From Deductive Logic by Stock, St. George William Joseph
The violation of Rule 3 is known as the Fallacy of Undistributed Middle.
From Deductive Logic by Stock, St. George William Joseph
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