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Armchair
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- 1 Remote from actual involvement, including a person retired from previously active involvement. figuratively, not-comparable
"armchair travels"
- 2 Unqualified or uninformed but yet giving advice, especially on technical issues, such as law, architecture, medicine, military theory, or sports; relating to such advice. derogatory, figuratively, not-comparable
"He's just an armchair lawyer who thinks he knows a lot about the law because he reads a legal blog."
- 1 A chair with supports for the arms or elbows.
"There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker arm-chairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had also emerged some Indian clubs,[…]; and all these articles[…]made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished."
- 2 chair with a support on each side for arms wordnet
- 3 A position removed from that which one is figuratively
"Evaluating possible etymologies requires a significant amount of knowledge about the speakers' lived reality […] for instance, the semantic connection between some species of plant and its use in traditional medicine may be fully transparent to a native speaker, but harder to understand from the perspective of a linguist's armchair."
- 1 To create based on theory or general knowledge rather than data.
"Research for program's subject matter is like mining gold. The more raw material we have, the more likely we are going to find gold nuggets. But this step is often overlooked and a program is "armchaired" from the office of the vice-president or vice-president of sales."
- 2 To theorize based on analysis of data that was gathered previously; to reflect.
"In past years, we administered this questionnaire and gave the results to the president who sat at a conference table with top management and armchaired some answers."
Etymology
From arm + chair.
From arm + chair.
From arm + chair.
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