(n) direct labor costs
direct labour costs
(n) (comp) serial adder
(n) foreign direct investment
FDI
direct overseas investment
(exp) to completely rethink
to pull one's self together
(n) (obsc) tonic-clonic seizure
(exp) third time lucky
third time's the charm
(exp,adv) namely
that is
which is to say
(exp) to redeploy troops
(n) (comp) lateral parity
(n) (comp) perpendicular magnetic recording
vertical magnetic recording
(n) (comp) Vertical Redundancy Check
VRC
(n) (comp) vertical synchronizing signal
VSYNC
(n,vs) organizational inertia
organisational inertia
(n) plane with a blade at ninety degrees to its base used for maintaining the bases of other wooden planes
(n) right-angle prism
(n) orthogonalized plane wave
OPW
(n) (comp) Quadrature Amplitude Modulation
QAM
(exp) to listen intently
(n) (comp) direct access
random access
(n) (comp) direct address
(n) direct fire
(n) (comp) previous specified element
(n) (comp) staticizer
serial-parallel converter
(exp) to render into Japanese
(n) (comp) serializer
parallel-serial converter
dynamicizer
(exp) frankly speaking
(exp) to sweep the slate clean
to start again from the beginning
to do it all over again
(n) (ling) pseudo-direct object
(exp) to alter the schedule
(n) (comp) vertical scan frequency
