Trigger \Trig"ger\, n. [For older tricker, from D. trekker, fr. trekken to draw, pull. See {Trick}, n.] 1. A catch to hold the wheel of a carriage on a declivity.
2. (Mech.) A piece, as a lever, which is connected with a catch or detent as a means of releasing it; especially (Firearms), the part of a lock which is moved by the finger to release the cock and discharge the piece.
{Trigger fish} (Zo["o]l.), a large plectognath fish ({Balistes Carolinensis} or {Balistes capriscus}) common on the southern coast of the United States, and valued as a food fish in some localities. Its rough skin is used for scouring and polishing in the place of sandpaper. Called also {leather jacket}, and {turbot}.
The resulting higher interest rates will trigger a recession in 1990, he figures.
Be sure to ask not only about regular call provisions but also about any special features that can trigger early calls, advises B. Daniel Evans, president of Fitch Investors Service Inc., a credit-rating company.
'We are not trigger happy,' he said.
Polaroid's retrenchment plan, announced July 12, was widely seen as an anti-takeover measure, and analysts said Wednesday the timing of the Shamrock offer suggested it was the trigger for the Polaroid changes.
Army investigators said they did not know who pulled the trigger.
It is "entirely possible" that this could trigger similar reviews in other states, said Glynn Young, a spokesman for St. Louis-based Monsanto, a major chemical producer.
The changes would trigger pay increases of about 5 per cent on top of the national deal. The average 5.5 per cent rise under the national offer comprises 5 per cent for all manual workers plus Pounds 1.13 a week.
"We are not pulling the trigger," George Quincy Lumsden Jr., the IEA's director of oil market developments, said in an interview.
These articles are written specifically for the serious stock market investor although capital gains on other assets, such as second homes, may also trigger CGT liabilities.
If Congress approved a budget with only modest increases from 1988, the agency would have a $171 million shortfall next year that would trigger a more serious round of station closings, Yost said.
It will probably take a shock, in terms of large, avoidable currency losses, to trigger UK pension fund trustees into action.
That trigger will rise to $500.
Demand from retail investors is expected to trigger the clawback in full. The issue price was 170p.
Midway Airlines said directors amended the company's shareholder rights plan, reducing the point at which an outsider's stake would trigger the plan's dilutive poison-pill measure.
He or she may not be capped at present - but leaving an old scheme and entering a new scheme will trigger the earnings cap rules.
The Serbian moves could trigger fresh unrest by the ethnic Albanian majority in Kosovo, the nation's least developed region and the scene of sporadic violence over the past two years.
Many times a large buyer wants to purchase from a willing seller at the market price a large block of stock that would trigger this prohibitive rule.
But even a congenital optimist has to acknowledge that the trigger point, if it exists for the Soviets, lies deep in the coming abyss.
"If you lock up and don't start pulling the trigger from the very start," he says bluntly, "you and your buddies will be overrun.
He said peptide-antibody response is not well understood now and that experiments in the past have shown that synthetic peptides can trigger undesirable antibodies, only a small number of which will attack the target.
Maresca said he did hear the shot in the cockpit but did not see who pulled the trigger.
It would trigger withdrawal of the 23,000-strong UN peacekeeping force, to which France and the UK have contributed generously, and deepen the rift in Nato. Mr Kohl will therefore do his utmost to prevent a split.
"Corporations aren't that fast on the trigger.
"I think it is most unwise for a president of the United States or a major candidate for the presidency to be drawn into a hypothetical discussion of when we would launch our nuclear forces and trigger the destruction of human civilization," he said.
Currently, violations of the verification system can trigger sanctions ranging from fines for paper-work violations to criminal misdemeanor and felony prison terms for senior managers of companies repeatedly violating the law.
If the payment is not made by then, bondholders could foreclose on the property, which could trigger defaults on other parts of Mr. Trump's vast empire.
The capacitors are another part of an A-bomb's trigger mechanism.
Interest rates fell after the Oct. 19 stock market panic because investors felt the crash might trigger a recession and wipe out inflation.
This should trigger some sharp price 'spikes' through 1993.
The data could reveal whether the majority of these ions, which trigger colorful auroras near Earth's magnetic poles, come from the sun or Earth, said Lou Frank, chairman of Galileo's magnetic field working group.