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Used of people with Down Syndrome. A Dutch profanity sometimes appearing in English as "downy" and generally considered derogatory [32] Dumb: Especially when preceded by "the" [17] [22] Dummy and dumb Used of people with mental disabilities, or more generally people perceived as stupid or ignorant.
Downside risk is the financial risk associated with losses. That is, it is the risk of the actual return being below the expected return, or the uncertainty about the magnitude of that difference. That is, it is the risk of the actual return being below the expected return, or the uncertainty about the magnitude of that difference.
go down (fig.) to leave a university (as Oxford) to come down (with an illness) to be accepted or remembered (e.g. go down in history) to fail, esp. of a computer go down on, to engage in oral sex: to go on, happen (often a major event, e.g. a drug bust "it's going down right now!" or "it went down last week".
In polite company this phrase may be toned down to "The mutt's nuts", or the phrase "The bee's knees" may be used as a polite substitute. dog's breakfast/dinner something poorly executed; a mess [64] [65] [66] [13] [67] dole * (informal) welfare, specifically unemployment benefit. Sometimes used in the US, esp. older generation donkey's years
The comparison of upside to downside risk is necessary because “modern portfolio theory measures risk in terms of standard deviation of asset returns, which treats both positive and negative deviations from expected returns as risk.” [1] In other words, regular beta measures both upside and downside risk.
In the 21st century, those terms are no longer used as medical terminology, deemed an unacceptable, offensive and misleading description of those with Down syndrome. [1] The terminology change was brought about both by scientific and medical experts, [ 2 ] as well as people of Asian ancestry, [ 2 ] including those from Mongolia.
Downside may refer to: Downside, North Somerset, a sub-district of Backwell, Somerset, England; Downside, Somerset, a hamlet near Chilcompton in England
Meanwhile, Lindsay, who has become curious about the Downsiders, searches for info about the Downside's origin, and eventually finds that the Downside was created over 100 years ago by an eccentric engineer named Alfred Ely Beach, who faked his death and sook refuge to the Downside along with his supporters after being chased away by the ...