maverick的意思|maverick的解释-里氏词典

maverick ['mævәrik]

n. 未烙饲主印记的小牛, 持不同意见的人

vi. 迷路

maverick

[ noun ]

someone who exhibits great independence in thought and action

<noun.person>

an unbranded range animal (especially a stray calf); belongs to the first person who puts a brand on it

<noun.animal>

[ adj ]

independent in behavior or thought

<adj.all>

she led a somewhat irregular private life

maverick politicians

Maverick \Mav"er*ick\, n.
In the southwestern part of the united States, a bullock or
heifer that has not been branded, and is unclaimed or wild;
-- said to be from Maverick, the name of a cattle owner in
Texas who neglected to brand his cattle.

Maverick \Mav"er*ick\, v. t.
To take a maverick. [Western U. S.]
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]

About 400 people marched through the center of Rome in a commemoration organized by Italy's tiny, maverick Radical Party.
They are often known for maverick investment strategies and high fees.
Democrats bolstered their majority control of the Senate by ousting three-term GOP maverick Lowell Weicker of Connecticut, who refused to concede defeat, and by capturing Republican seats in Virginia, Nevada and Nebraska.
Even Beauvoir's appearance paints him as a musical maverick with the wild, white Mohawk he's sported for many years.
Ceausescu dealt more with the West, which made him a maverick in the Soviet bloc.
But the maverick Mr Madelin did not go as far as urging publicly any change in the franc/D-Mark parity. Mr Balladur has not yet struck any close relationship with Chancellor Kohl, whose relationship with President Mitterrand remains closer.
His maverick foreign policy created a new pride in a country accustomed to feeling like a poor cousin of the rich West.
The Sept. 22 truce halted six months of shelling duels between Christian troops of maverick Gen.
Communist maverick Boris N. Yeltsin was named head of a committee on construction and architecture.
He won power on the vote of a lone left-wing maverick, toppling the 1982-87 coalition government of Garret FitzGerald.
With him at the table were the group's other leaders: historian Yuri Afanasyev, Communist maverick Boris N. Yeltsin and economists Gavriil Popov and Viktor Palm.
Yet another rumpus has been stirred up by France's maverick minister of health and humanitarian affairs Bernard Kouchner.
'With present policies and interest rates the UK economy will never recover,' he said. Until recently Mr Congdon, a monetarist, might have been regarded as having a maverick view.
Mr. Knapp formed Trafalgar several months after regulators forced out the maverick executive as chairman of Financial Corp. of America, the parent of American Savings & Loan Association, then the nation's largest thrift.
The maverick Ceausescu was the only Warsaw Pact leader to defy the Soviets in the 1960s and 1970s by not permitting joint military exercises in his country and by not participating in the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia.
Only Romania, long a maverick in the Warsaw Pact, has remained cold to the thaw started by Gorbachev after he rose to power in March 1985.
UMW members across the country had viewed Pittston as a maverick company attempting to break the union, a claim the company vigorously denied.
During the glory years of the "junk" bond market it helped create, Drexel stamped itself as a maverick operation driven by aggressiveness and innovation.
But Mr. Roemer, known as a maverick Democrat who voted against the party more than any member in Congress, thinks he can save a lot of money simply by reducing waste.
A hot-tempered, excitable maverick, he jolted popular thought with his theories on crime, prisons and child abuse.
In Massachusetts, Republican William F. Weld came from behind to defeat maverick Democrat John Silber, on leave as president of Boston University.
Lyndon H. LaRouche's political movement was buying expensive Virginia properties at a time when millions of dollars in loans to his organizations were not being repaid, the political maverick's conspiracy trial was told Tuesday.
The suit was filed two years ago by the liberal, Washington-based Christic Institute on behalf of journalist Tony Avirgan, injured in the 1984 Nicaragua bombing aimed at maverick Contra leader Eden Pastora.
But none of their members has the domestic audience and international reach of Sakharov, and other anti-establishment leaders, like maverick Communist Boris N. Yeltsin, are considered by many to be demagogues or driven by ambition.
Wall Street firms in particular have been plagued by maverick units, with headquarters exercising little oversight, says Robert B. Lamb, a New York University management professor.
The man is a melodic maverick and among his guests tonight is James Taylor.
After more than a decade of revolution, war and being painted as the maverick of international politics, Iran is in the midst of a complex political adjustment.
President Mikhail S. Gorbachev rejected an attempt by lawmakers today to name maverick Communist leader Boris Yeltsin as head of a government watchdog agency.
Indeed, they had every reason not to bring in Lazard: Mr. Vincent is a corporate maverick who doesn't get on well with leaders of the Paris financial establishment.
That maverick style wins accolades from Mr. Evans's supporters.

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