Betekenis van dog In het Nederlands

• 0 a common animal with four legs, especially kept by people as a pet or to hunt or guard things:

  • my pet dog

  • wild dogs

  • dog food

  • We could hear dogs barking in the distance.

• 1 a man who is unpleasant or not to be trusted:

  • He tried to steal my money, the dirty dog.

• 2 to follow someone closely and continuously:

  • Reporters dogged him for answers.

• 3 to cause difficulties:

  • Technical problems dogged our trip from the outset.

• 4 an animal with four legs, commonly kept as a pet, and sometimes used to guard things

• 5 a person of a stated type:

  • You won $1000? You lucky dog!

• 6 to follow someone closely and continually:

  • The scandal seems likely to dog him for months to come.

• 7 an investment, company, or product that will probably fail

• 8 a product that has a small share of a market that has a low rate of growth

• 9 a situation in which competitors are willing to harm each other in order to be successful:

  • It is dog eat dog on Las Vegas's world-famous Strip as huge casino complexes compete for attention.

  • The fast-growing telecom industry was a dog-eat-dog world where firms were either looking to expand or ripe for takeover.

• 10 if a company eats its own dog food, it uses the products that it makes in its own business activities, rather than using products made by other companies:

  • The company, which makes high-tech equipment, could not have grown as fast as it has without eating lots of its own dog food.

• 11 to get into a very bad situation:

  • The economy seems to be going to the dogs.

  • Signs of a global recession inevitably conjure up thoughts of the last time we went to hell in a handbasket: the Great Depression of the 1930s.

• 12 used to say that a plan will fail