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fad

[fad]

noun

a temporary fashion, notion, manner of conduct, etc., especially one followed enthusiastically by a group.

Origin:
1825–35; noun use of dial. fad to look after things, busy oneself with trifles, back formation from obsolete faddle to play with, fondle. See fiddle

Related forms

fad·like, adjective

Synonyms
craze, vogue, rage.

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Example Sentences

That's a long time for a food fad that represents such a total waste of calories to hang around.

It's not a new fad diet, but part of a strategy for battling the spike in energy costs.

The latest exchange-rate fad in emerging economies is for flexible currencies, but fixed inflation targets.

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That's a long time for a food fad that represents such a total waste of calories to hang around.

It's not a new fad diet, but part of a strategy for battling the spike in energy costs.

The latest exchange-rate fad in emerging economies is for flexible currencies, but fixed inflation targets.

Since then, it has become something of a national fad.

Twitter and their cousins have evolved from college fad to global ubiquity in seven short years.

I've prefered walking barefoot my whole life, and so am more then happy for the barefoot running fad to take off.

Two principles, however, have survived this confusing roller-coaster ride of fad diets: balance and moderation.

Indeed, dating the universe was quite the scholarly fad.

The bracelets are called silly bandz, and they are today's kid fad.

Entire industries do not go under simply due to a fad or without doing their homework.

The best-known of the insurance deals is the one that started the whole film-insurance fad.

At the same time, many agree that environmental problems are exaggerated and that the environmental movement is a fad.

However, don t get me wrong, the organic movement is merely at the stage of fad.

Forget the fad of accosting random strangers to jack your headphones into their iPods.

Instead, you get voluminous amounts of recycled ideas rife with the latest buzz words and fad getting approved.

What is more, investing in oil has become something of a fad.

Its basically a domino effect within the fad dominated world of teens.

Optimists, however, argue there may be benefits from today's fad for currency fiddling.

There's no sense in fad diets which are contrary to our biological nature.

But the housebreaking fad is now in danger of becoming retro.

The fad probably hasn't existed long enough for the safety hazards to be exposed.

The austerity fad is also distorting politicians' priorities.

For corporations, philosophy has become the latest management fad.

Hopefully it won't be re-processed and turned into some kind of another failure of a management fad.

Compounding the above problem is the fad of equipping bathrooms with only electric hand dryers.

Once again, what started as a fad among the young and the lissome has become a fashion staple.

They had a pragmatic approach, rather than trying to terrorise us into the latest educational fad.

The newest bracelet fad takes a cue from orthodontics.

Another fad that registers less with managers is business-process re-engineering.

It's a shame that the public latches onto a bred fad and pushes it to the limit.

Note the implication that scientists are a pack of grant-seeking idiots chasing after the latest fad theory.

The fad that announced itself with a profusion of elaborately.

Throw in the retro fad and the push to go green and it makes perfect sense.

Another fad is taking hold in the business of keeping warm: ceramic electric heaters.

He himself was a warning against taking the unbundling fad too far.

For all they knew, the videogame fad was over and they were about to go the way of pet rocks and hula hoops.

Whether their use is a fad or a reaction to the city's strict smoking rules, store owners say sales of chew and dip are growing.

Population control has been a recurring fad for more than a century.

The important difference is that what was then dismissed as a fad is currently deemed a movement--pure punk.

Asia's sushi fad bodes ill for the bluefin tuna even on the far side of the world.

Will our quest to eradicate the coldhearted doctor be another fad with consequences we.

Very overpriced shares for something that is frankly, a fad.

The question of woman's suffrage is certainly no longer to be considered a fad.

It is easy to dismiss the iPod as a fad and its fanatical users as members of a gadget-obsessed cult.

Their achievements deserve to be celebrated, and not as the latest retro fad.

All the artificial enhancements used in their acts will be a temporary fad.

The latest fad is private equity firms getting into real estate investment trusts.

Yet macroprudential supervision smacks of a fad that will not live up to its billing.

But it may be a fad that lasts rather longer than the previous ones.

Partly this reflects a fad for exotica among non-Jews.

Today recycling is an urban trendy fad in which the energy costs of recycling often outweigh any gains.

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Collins

World English Dictionary

fad (fæd)

—n
1.	an intense but short-lived fashion; craze
2.	a personal idiosyncrasy or whim

[C19: of uncertain origin]

'faddish

—*adj*

'faddishness

—n

'faddism

—n

'faddist

—n

FAD

—n
	biochem See also FMN flavin adenine dinucleotide: an ester of riboflavin with ADP that acts as the prosthetic group for many flavoproteins

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Word Origin & History

fad

1834, "hobby, pet project;" 1881 as "fashion, craze," perhaps shortened from fiddle-faddle. Or perhaps from Fr. fadaise "trifle, nonsense," ult. from L. fatuus "stupid."

American Heritage

Medical Dictionary

FAD abbr.
flavin adenine dinucleotide

FOLDOC

Computing Dictionary

FAD definition

["FAD, A Simple and Powerful Database Language", F. Bancilon et al, Proc 13th Intl Conf on VLDB, Brighton, England, Sep 1987].

American Heritage

Abbreviations & Acronyms

FAD

fish aggregating device
flavin adenine dinucleotide

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