Rort vs Null - What's the difference?
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(Australia, New Zealand) A scam or fraud, especially involving the misappropriation of public money or resources.
* 2008 , Australian House of Representatives, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard) ,
* 2009 , Justine Vaisutis, Australia , Lonely Planet,
* 2011 , Malcolm Knox, , Fierce Focus ,
(Australia, New Zealand, transitive) To cheat or defraud.
* 1992 , Victorian Legislative Assembly, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard) ,
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* 2011 , James Morton, Susanna Lobez, Kings of Stings: The Greatest Swindles From Down Under ,
A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
Something that has no force or meaning.
(computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
(computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
One of the beads in nulled work.
(statistics) null hypothesis
Having no validity, "null and void"
insignificant
* 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
absent or non-existent
(mathematics) of the null set
(mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
(genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
As an adjective rort
is .As a verb rort
is .As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.rort
English
Noun
(en noun)page 4067,
- Not all of the projects were bad or rorts ; the majority were no doubt valuable to their communities.
page 81,
- It?s one of the great rorts in Australia that for overstaying your welcome (even by five minutes) in a space that may cost only a few dollars to park in, local councils are prepared to fine you anywhere from $50 to $120.
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- The rort was that South Australia and Western Australia, who controlled their grounds, were allowed to double-dip. In Perth, for instance, the WACA sold season tickets, which they marketed in the form of memberships, to everything at the ground, including football. They had a huge membership and were rolling in money, but because they?d sold their tickets in memberships, they declared a loss on the cricket Test match. At the end of the season, though, they?d get the same twofourteenths(sic) of Pool Two as Queensland.
Verb
(en verb)page 496,
- He wants to change the system for the benefit of all and wants to stop the incredible rorting that has occurred within the prisons system.
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page 118,
- York is then alleged to have rorted the doctor out of his share.
Anagrams
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English
Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
Adjective
(en adjective)- In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.