Procrustean in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

Translations for Procrustean in the English»French Dictionary

Procrustean [Brit prə(ʊ)ˈkrʌstɪən, Am proʊˈkrəstiən] ADJ MYTH

Procrustean

de Procruste

Procrustean fig measures, solution

draconien/-ienne

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English

A one-size-fits-all, or Procrustean, approach usually leads to lower productivity and a large group of unhappy users.

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Additionally, the small group attains excessive power, while the majority languish in the Procrustean bed so solicitously prepared for them.

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All too often you stretch them on a Procrustean bed or dig a hole in the ground and shovel them into it.

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Political idealists are prone to the Procrustean temptation of forcing reality to conform with their visions.

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Complex ideas are reduced and simplified when they're stuffed into a Procrustean bed of grievance.

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Nonetheless, the world of hypercapitalism is Procrustean.

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You can't make reality fit into your Procrustean bed.

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In computer science, a Procrustean string is a fixed length string into which strings of varying lengths are placed.

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It thereby fashions a Procrustean bed which rejects any observation which would disprove the naturalistic assumption.

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