Kodak moment
Kodak moment noun: a sentimental or charming moment worthy of capturing in a photograph.
Noun
Kodak moment (plural Kodak moments)
- A sentimental or charming moment worthy of capturing in a photograph.
- ‘Don’t you ever stop? This is not going to be a Kodak moment, I promise you. It’s not going to be hugs and tears. There’s no place for a swelling violins sound track.’1994, Laramie Dunaway, Women on Top, Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN, page 104
- Instead she held his hand and they walked together. I looked at both of them and I knew that it was a Kodak moment. I was so proud of my daughter.2003, Marissa Marchan, A Marriage Made in Heaven and Hell
- The situation in which a business fails to foresee changes within its industry and drops from a market-dominant position to being a minor player or declares bankruptcy.
- THIS is your Kodak moment. Kodak moment, in this case, does not mean a moment to capture on film; rather, it means the time in history when an upstart technology changed the game; e.g., digital photography emerged and Kodak chose to ignore it until it was too late.2014 May 25, Patrick Connor, “This is the Kodak Moment for the Auto Industry”, in Cars With Cords
- Platinum sector faces its Kodak moment in fuel cell technology [title]2015 May 29, Clara Denina, Silvia Antonioli, “Platinum sector faces its Kodak moment in fuel cell technology”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 01 Jun 2015
Examples of Kodak moment in a sentence
- These Islamic headcutters in headscarves are so warped, they consider beheadings nothing more than a Kodak moment to share with friends, followers, and foes alike.2005, Michael Savage, Liberalism is a mental disorder: Savage solutions:
- Every company is right now afraid of having a Kodak Moment.2015, David Butler, Design to Grow: How Coca-Cola Learned to Combine Scale and Agility (and How You Can Too):
- A “Kodak moment” might better refer to the failure of a once-dominant business to respond to a disruptive new technology—in Kodak’s case: digital photography.2015 April 30, Jerry Ross, “The Wrong Kind of “Kodak Moment” Will Big Banks Become the Next Victims of Tech Disruption?”, in LinkedIn:
Forms of Kodak moment
| plural | Kodak moments |
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Origin of Kodak moment
* (sentimental moment): Slogan of an Eastman Kodak Company advertising campaign, 1980s. * (business): In reference to the Eastman Kodak Company's decline when film photography was overtaken by digital photography, 2010s.
Questions about Kodak moment
- What does Kodak moment mean?
- Kodak moment means a sentimental or charming moment worthy of capturing in a photograph.
- How do you use Kodak moment in a sentence?
- These Islamic headcutters in headscarves are so warped, they consider beheadings nothing more than a Kodak moment to share with friends, followers, and foes alike.
- What part of speech is Kodak moment?
- Kodak moment is a noun.
- What is the plural of Kodak moment?
- The plural of Kodak moment is Kodak moments.
Words near Kodak moment in the dictionary
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