Return on capital employed (ROCE) (finance) and parody (iou)

Return on capital employed (ROCE) (finance)

Indicator of profitability of the firm's capital investments. Determined by dividing Earnings Before Interest and Taxes by (capital employed plus short-term loans minus intangible assets).

parody (iou)

parody noun & verb. L16.
[Late Latin parodia or Greek paroidia burlesque song or poem, formed as PARA-1 + oide ODE: see -Y3.]
A. noun.
1. A prose, verse, or (occas.) Other artistic composition in which the characteristic themes and the style of a particular work, author, etc., are exaggerated or applied to an inappropriate subject, esp. for the purposes of ridicule; in Music also, a composition that employs reworked material from another piece or passage, with serious intent. Also, the composition of parodies, parodies as a genre. L16.
2. fig. A poor or feeble imitation, a travesty. M19.
L. Blue A terrible grin,..like an awful parody of the smile on the face of my kind hostess.
B. verb.
1. verb trans. Compose a parody of; be a parody of. M18.
Leigh Hunt He parodied Music as well as words. H. Carpenter ''Tis the voice of the Lobster' parodies Isaac Watts's ''Tis the voice of the Sluggard'.
b. verb intrans. Parody a composition. rare. L19.
2. verb trans. fig. Imitate in a poor or feeble manner, travesty. M18.
V. Woolf These young men parodied her husband, she reflected.
parodiable adjective L19.
parodial adjective pertaining to or resembling (a) parody E19.
parodic adjective resembling (a) parody E19.
parodical adjective = parodic L18.
parodically adverb L19.
parodist noun the author of a parody M18.
paro'distic adjective resembling (a) parody; that parodies something: L19.
paro'distically adverb M19.
parodize verb trans. & intrans. parody M17.

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