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tam

American  
[tam] / tæm /

tam British  
/ tæm /

noun

  1. short for tam-o'-shanter

"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

Etymology

Origin of tam

By shortening


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It dates back to the first Congress, which enacted numerous qui tam laws signed by President George Washington.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2024

“Without the qui tam, the federal government often would never find out about the fraud at all,” Leonardo Cuello, an expert on Medicaid at Georgetown University, wrote after Mizelle’s ruling.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2024

As Siri Nelson, executive director of the National Whistleblowers Center, argues, qui tam third-party lawsuits like the False Claims Act have a tradition of strong government oversight to avoid any hint of vigilantism.

From Slate ● Feb. 10, 2022

In this generally sporting tam toss of a memoir, such an assertion lands with the soft plunk of sanctimony.

From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2021

She was wearing a navy-blue reefer and a tam that was very nearly the same shade of red as the blanket on the bed in van Gogh’s room at Arles.

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger

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