from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
noun The state or quality of being agile; nimbleness.
from The Century Dictionary.
noun The state or quality of being agile; the power of moving quickly; nimbleness; briskness; activity, either of body or of mind.
noun Powerful action; active force.
noun Synonyms See agile.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun The quality of being agile; the power of moving the limbs quickly and easily; nimbleness; activity; quickness of motion.
noun obsolete Activity; powerful agency.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
noun uncountable The quality of being agile; the power of moving the limbsquickly and easily; nimbleness; activity; quickness of motion; as, strength and agility of body.
noun countable A faculty of being agile in body, mind, or figuratively.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
noun the gracefulness of a person or animal that is quick and nimble
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Middle English agilite, from Old French, from Medieval Latin agilitās, from Latin agilis; see agile.]
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From Middle French agilité, from Latin agilitās, from agilis ("nimble, fleet, quick").
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People conflate two different things under the term agility: engineering resource availability, and business response to changing conditions or opportunity.
People conflate two different things under the term agility: engineering resource availability, and business response to changing conditions or opportunity.
However, the term agility is used to describe two different kinds of benefit; both are real, but one of them will, ultimately, be seen as offering the greatest impact.
However, the term agility is used to describe two different kinds of benefit; both are real, but one of them will, ultimately, be seen as offering the greatest impact.
He specifically identifies “core values with teeth” as one of the six requirements a company needs for strategy execution: “clearly articulated values that underpin agility and drive hiring, promotion, and firing decisions.”
He specifically identifies “core values with teeth” as one of the six requirements a company needs for strategy execution: “clearly articulated values that underpin agility and drive hiring, promotion, and firing decisions.”
He specifically identifies “core values with teeth” as one of the six requirements a company needs for strategy execution: “clearly articulated values that underpin agility and drive hiring, promotion, and firing decisions.”
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