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Definition of skunkworks in English: skunkworksplural nounskʌŋkˈwəːkʃˈskəNGkˌwərks trademark, informal usually treated as singular An experimental laboratory or department of a company or institution, typically smaller than and independent of its main research division. 〈美,非正式〉(公司或机构的)研发重地,臭鼬工厂(通常比主要研发部门小,独立于主要研发部门之外) this wasn't a short-staffed skunkworks, these were the top research managers the most successful collection of such skunkworks cannot alone propel the growth of a large company as modifier this was a real skunkworks project Example sentencesExamples - ‘We used to be a skunkworks,’ he admits, and adds, ‘But we do have a skunkworks within us.’
- We first confirmed that Intel's Jackson project was slightly more than a skunkworks sideline here, last February in fact.
- ‘It's a classic example of the skunkworks approach,’ Bovet says.
- Yamhill is Intel's skunkworks effort to add 64 bit instructions to the x86 line.
- Microsoft must want Corel's Linux expertise to get the skunkworks Linux Office port flying, right?
- Apple co-opts the Mozilla code base for a skunkworks native OS X browser that's both super fast and grannie-friendly.
- Now, thanks to a combination of a skunkworks project within Google, and an enterprising Java developer, Google has done much to close the gap.
- Leave standard-setting, skunkworks, innovation, and invention to the private sector.
- Our multimedia skunkworks has experimented with file recovery programs that restore deleted images on removable media.
- Have you ever noticed how many cool hardware and software products are made by skunkworks operations?
- The chipset and motherboard are designed by Bechtolsheim's skunkworks team.
- Another drawback of the skunkworks approach is that it may create a climate of us and them.
- And Lotus, a skunkworks of clever engineering, was sold.
Origin1970s (originally used in reference to the research laboratories of the aerospace company Lockheed Martin): allegedly from an association with the Skonk Works, an illegal still in the 'Li'l Abner' comic strip. Definition of skunkworks in US English: skunkworksplural nounˈskəNGkˌwərks trademark, informal usually treated as singular An experimental laboratory or department of a company or institution, typically smaller than and independent of its main research division. 〈美,非正式〉(公司或机构的)研发重地,臭鼬工厂(通常比主要研发部门小,独立于主要研发部门之外) this wasn't a short-staffed skunkworks, these were the top research managers the most successful collection of such skunkworks cannot alone propel the growth of a large company as modifier this was a real skunkworks project Example sentencesExamples - ‘We used to be a skunkworks,’ he admits, and adds, ‘But we do have a skunkworks within us.’
- Microsoft must want Corel's Linux expertise to get the skunkworks Linux Office port flying, right?
- Leave standard-setting, skunkworks, innovation, and invention to the private sector.
- And Lotus, a skunkworks of clever engineering, was sold.
- Have you ever noticed how many cool hardware and software products are made by skunkworks operations?
- Now, thanks to a combination of a skunkworks project within Google, and an enterprising Java developer, Google has done much to close the gap.
- ‘It's a classic example of the skunkworks approach,’ Bovet says.
- Yamhill is Intel's skunkworks effort to add 64 bit instructions to the x86 line.
- We first confirmed that Intel's Jackson project was slightly more than a skunkworks sideline here, last February in fact.
- Our multimedia skunkworks has experimented with file recovery programs that restore deleted images on removable media.
- Another drawback of the skunkworks approach is that it may create a climate of us and them.
- Apple co-opts the Mozilla code base for a skunkworks native OS X browser that's both super fast and grannie-friendly.
- The chipset and motherboard are designed by Bechtolsheim's skunkworks team.
Origin1970s (originally used in reference to the research laboratories of the aerospace company Lockheed Martin): allegedly from an association with the Skonk Works, an illegal still in the 'Li'l Abner' comic strip. |