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Davos

/ ˈdævɒs /

noun

  1. Romansch name: Taraua mountain resort in Switzerland: winter sports, site of the Parsenn ski run. Pop: 11 417 (2000). Height: about 1560 m (5118 ft)

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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The Winter Olympics was hosted here twice - in the upmarket resort of St Moritz - while the town of Davos hosts world leaders for the World Economic Forum each year.

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The event was once dubbed "Russia's Davos", but the label doesn't really apply now.

From BBC

Conservative shadow business secretary Andrew Griffith has also faced questions over accepting £4,000 of hospitality to attend the Bafta awards with his wife in February, as well as £973 for skiing in Davos, Switzerland.

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The kicker: “She seemingly could not care less,” even though she’d just spoken at a “Davos panel about women’s leadership.”

From Slate

The president himself was pretty clear in his video address to a stunned World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland in January.

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