Searching for the [i]mot juste[/i]
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Preparing for the PEV exam on Monday, my college mates and I were working through the June '06 paper and got ourselves stuck on task 1.2, where you have to remove the seasonal variation.
We finally grasped that we have been given actual sales, and how much of those sales are down to seasonal variations, so should remove the season variation from the actual figures. This is all fine, but what do you call it? I just can't think of the right word:
Actual.... 22,000
Seasonal.. +2,000
???????... 20,000
What do we call it? De-seasonalised sales perhaps? Anti-seasoned (but don't season your chips with vinegar and anti-vinegar or they'll explode
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I eventually settled on "ante-seasonal sales", from the latin prefix ante-, meaning "before" as in Antenatal "before birth".
Or possibly a prefix to suggest 'without'. sans- perhaps?
Anyone have any ideas?
We finally grasped that we have been given actual sales, and how much of those sales are down to seasonal variations, so should remove the season variation from the actual figures. This is all fine, but what do you call it? I just can't think of the right word:
Actual.... 22,000
Seasonal.. +2,000
???????... 20,000
What do we call it? De-seasonalised sales perhaps? Anti-seasoned (but don't season your chips with vinegar and anti-vinegar or they'll explode
)I eventually settled on "ante-seasonal sales", from the latin prefix ante-, meaning "before" as in Antenatal "before birth".
Or possibly a prefix to suggest 'without'. sans- perhaps?
Anyone have any ideas?
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I think I've always referred to it as deseasonalised but whether that is correct or not - I don't know.0 -
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