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jam-spreading

jam-spreading noun: the practice of spreading resources or costs evenly, and thus thinly (rather than concentrating them in one area).

Noun

jam-spreading

  1. (UK) The practice of spreading resources or costs evenly, and thus thinly (rather than concentrating them in one area).
    • The tale of 'spreading jam'
      A common problem is the way that businesses 'spread' their overhead costs across customers: that is, they spread them evenly, irrespective of the actual costs involved in dealing with different customers. They do the same when looking at product profitability, even at...2010, Bob Cinnamon, Brian Helweg-Larsen, How to Understand Business Finance, page 48
    • 175. Overman ( 2013) refers to the problem whereby political logic encourages a 'jam spreading' approach to the distribution of policy funds which then leads to fragmentation and a lack of resource concentration. […]2016, Philip McCann, The UK Regional-National Economic Problem

Questions about jam-spreading

What does jam-spreading mean?
Jam-spreading means the practice of spreading resources or costs evenly, and thus thinly (rather than concentrating them in one area).
What part of speech is jam-spreading?
Jam-spreading is a noun.

Words near jam-spreading in the dictionary

  1. jam-packed
  2. jam-packing
  3. jam-packs
  4. jam-pot
  5. jam-pots
  6. jam-spreading
  7. jam-tree
  8. jam-up
  9. jam-ups
  10. Jam.
  11. JAMA

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