Davos

/ ˈdævɒs /

noun

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

Example Sentences

In January, Microsoft’s Nadella was attending an unseasonably warm edition of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland when he was asked in a TV interview about the $500-billion Stargate announcement.

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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.

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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.”

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