reif

[reef]

noun

Scot. Obsolete.

1. plunder; booty; loot.

2. robbery; piracy.

3. the act of seizing booty.

Word History and Origins

Origin of reif¹

before 950; Middle English (north) ref, Old English rēaf; akin to reave ¹, bereave

Example Sentences

This is because, in contrast to older workplace productivity tools like Excel, generative A.I. isn’t seen as requiring specialized skills, Jessica Reif, the lead author of the study and a Ph.D. candidate at Duke’s Fuqua School of Business, told me.

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Visitors who have already scheduled trips tend not to cancel, but those who were considering a vacation may put it off if they’re concerned about their personal financial situations, said Jessica Reif Ehrlich, senior media and entertainment analyst at Bank of America.

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“International visitors are really important,” Reif Ehrlich said.”They tend to spend more and stay longer so they’re really profitable.”

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Bank of America analyst Jessica Reif Ehrlich has been blunt in her assessment that the firm, created by Discovery’s absorption of WarnerMedia in 2022, is not on an a sustainable path.

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The stock slide “comes on the heels of significant under-performance over the last two years,” Reif Ehrlich wrote in a report Thursday.

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