0 An open-ended activity or situation does not have a planned ending, so it may develop in several ways:
We are not willing to enter into open-ended discussions.
1 without an end date or planned way of ending:
Several of the transit worker unions have stated that their strike would be open-ended.
They employ their temporary workers on open-ended contracts.
an open-ended approach/commitment/response Private business cannot be expected to enter into an open-ended commitment to fund any cost overruns.
open-ended discussions
2 → open-end
3 used to describe a question that cannot be answered with 'yes' or 'no':
To let respondents spontaneously express their opinions, an open-ended question requested of them to list conditions in their companies which they found attractive and unattractive.
Five starting prices, which were chosen based on answers to open-ended questions in the pilot survey, were assigned to respondents randomly and roughly proportionately.
The interview consisted of a series of open-ended questions, plus an option to give additional information or opinions.
Subjects completed self-report measures, and were then interviewed by research psychologists and psychiatrists who administered structured and open-ended assessment schedules.
This flexible, open-ended approach to visual style automates qualitative rerepresentations, learns from the data set unsupervised, and modifies assessments according to design context.
The incentive to put forward underfinanced proposals is weakened compared to a system where entitlement appropriations are open-ended.
The 'open-ended' responses were categorized into two general areas: admitted carelessness ('not careful', 'didn't follow prescription', 'removed diaphragm too soon', etc.) and medical-technical problems.
Individual minds mutually interact within this converging landscape in an open-ended time horizon, exploiting its features in distinctive ways.
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