ruboff
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The situation where something rubs off, either physically or figuratively.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "For example, if there tend to be qualitative or other "ruboffs" between product advertisements that are presented in the same spot, marketers must be extremely careful as to when, where, and with what products their ads are being seen."
- "We saw good absorption and low ruboff."
- "They know that in the business world, doors open on doors through personal contact, mutual experiences and all the other ruboffs from white middle-class life style."
- "[…] the researchers identified the notion of 'reputation impact', whereby creative employees were attracted to companies that were highly reputable and visible, because of the perceived reputation rub-off for the employees' personal identity […]"