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🇮🇳Hindi Source WordCode: HI

दोतरफा मार

Pronunciation / Transliteration: dotarfa maar

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Whipsaw/ˈwɪp.sɔː/
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🇮🇳 Example Sentence in Hindi:

"कंपनियों को बढ़ती लागत और गिरती मांग की दोतरफा मार झेलनी पड़ी।"

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2 senses
As verb
  1. 1

    To subject to two opposing forces or difficulties at the same time or in rapid succession.

    "Small businesses were whipsawed between rising supply costs and falling consumer demand."
  2. 2

    In financial markets, to experience a sudden movement in price in one direction followed immediately by an equally sharp movement in the opposite direction.

    "Many inexperienced traders were whipsawed during the sudden market volatility yesterday."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the noun 'whipsaw', a narrow, long two-man crosscut saw used in logging that moved rapidly back and forth in opposing directions. The term entered figurative use in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to describe situations where a person or market is subjected to rapid, successive adverse forces from two opposite directions.

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