BCCI (oh) and resistance (iou)

BCCI (oh)

Bank of Credit and Commerce International an international bank which failed in 1991 after it was accused of doing business in a dishonest way

resistance noun. LME.
[French resistance (earlier resistence) from late Latin resistentia, from Latin resistent- pres. ppl stem of resistere RESIST verb: see -ANCE. Cf. RESISTENCE.]
a. The action or an act of resisting, opposing, or withstanding. Foll. by to, of. LME.
Daily News The hillmen offered a stubborn resistance to the advance.
b. Organized covert opposition to an occupying or ruling power; a secret organization resisting authority; spec. (usu. Resistance) the underground movement formed in France at the beginning of the war of 1939-45 to fight the German occupying forces and the Vichy government. M20.
resistance fighter, resistance movement, etc.
a. Power or capacity of resisting; ability to withstand something. Freq. with specifying word. LME.
crease resistance, flame resistance, etc.
P. Bowles You just happened to get infected because your resistance was low.
b. Psychoanalysis. Opposition, freq. unconscious, to the emergence into consciousness of repressed memories or desires. E20.
c. Medicine & Biology. Lack of sensitivity to a drug, insecticide, etc., esp. due to continued exposure. M20.
Which? A strain of typhoid that had developed a resistance to chloramphenicol.
Opposition of one material thing to another or to a force etc.; esp. the opposition offered by a body or fluid to the pressure or movement of another body or fluid. LME.
Discovery To diminish air-resistance by..streamlining. A. Mason The knife had encountered a strange resistance, a substance hard as cedar.
a. The tendency to slow or hinder the conduction of electricity, magnetism, or heat; spec. (a measure of) the degree to which a substance or device slows or hinders the passage of an electric current. M18.
b. An electrical component considered with respect to its resistance; esp. a resistor. L19.
Phrases: line of least resistance (a) the shortest distance between a buried explosive charge and the surface of the ground; (b) fig. the easiest method or course of action. multiple resistance: see MULTIPLE adjective. negative resistance: see NEGATIVE adjective. passive resistance: see PASSIVE adjective. piece of resistance = PI¨-E DE ReSISTANCE. specific resistance = RESISTIVITY. thermal resistance: see THERMAL adjective.
Comb.: resistance thermometer an instrument used to measure a change in temperature by its effect on the electrical resistance of a metallic (usu. platinum) wire; resistance welding a method of welding in which the heat to cause fusion of the metals is produced by passing an electric current across the contact between two surfaces held together by mechanical pressure.
resistanceless adjective marked by a total lack of (esp. electrical) resistance M20.

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