Em in Ohio
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Definition: Experienced in ones imagination rather than directly
That's precisely why the site management wanted to promote this activity - because we are an international crowd, often with our own interpretations of words. Thanks so much for pointing this out!Em in Ohio....it seems as though America and Britain have different meanings for certain words. According to my Odhams Dictionary 'vicarious' means a substitute.
The young doctor was acting vicariously, while his superior was away on vacation.
Sounds like the same thing...?Em in Ohio....it seems as though America and Britain have different meanings for certain words. According to my Odhams Dictionary 'vicarious' means a substitute.
The young doctor was acting vicariously, while his superior was away on vacation.
I've never heard it used this way in the USA. Have you? I'm curious to see if the Odhams Dictionary is online. To me, her sentence seems like its used 'as a substitute.'Sounds like the same thing...?
Yes, but aren't we substituting another person's enjoyment for our own when we say we took vicarious pleasure in whatever? I'm not sure.....I've never heard it used this way in the USA. Have you? I'm curious to see if the Odhams Dictionary is online. To me, her sentence seems like its used 'as a substitute.'
Also known as "Imputed" liability. Similar to the "Master - Servant"Vicarious liability, is a very interesting concept.
Would legal vicarious or imputed liability,
be strictly if one employs or pays another to do their dirty work?
Or is it also applied to someone who has other types of influence over, or possible responsibility for another's actions,
And, would it ever also be applied to simply knowing about someone else's plan or action, and not trying actively to thwart it?