"patent troll" meaning in Anglais

See patent troll in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: \ˈpæt.ənt ˌtɹoʊl\, \ˈpeɪ.tənt ˌtɹəʊl\ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-patent troll.wav Forms: patent trolls [plural]
  1. Patent troll.
    Sense id: fr-patent_troll-en-noun-pMwppsFD Categories (other): Exemples en anglais
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated

Inflected forms

{
  "categories": [
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Locutions nominales en anglais",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Anglais",
      "orig": "anglais",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_texts": [
    "Composé de patent (« brevet ») et de troll (« troll »)."
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "patent trolls",
      "ipas": [
        "\\ˈpæt.ənt ˌtɹoʊlz\\",
        "\\ˈpeɪ.tənt ˌtɹəʊlz\\"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Anglais",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "pos_title": "Locution nominale",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Exemples en anglais",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "Marc Morgan,Stop Looking under the Bridge for Imaginary Creatures: A Comment Examining Who Really Deserves the Title Patent Troll, 2008",
          "text": "This perception of a patent troll must be changed because it unfairly gives a number of legitimate intellectual property businesses a bad name.",
          "translation": "Cette perception du patent troll doit être changée, car elle fait injustement mauvaise presse à un certain nombre de pratiques légitimes en propriété intellectuelle."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Patent troll."
      ],
      "id": "fr-patent_troll-en-noun-pMwppsFD"
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "\\ˈpæt.ənt ˌtɹoʊl\\",
      "raw_tags": [
        "États-Unis"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "\\ˈpeɪ.tənt ˌtɹəʊl\\",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Royaume-Uni"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-patent troll.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/77/LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-patent_troll.wav/LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-patent_troll.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/77/LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-patent_troll.wav/LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-patent_troll.wav.ogg",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Sud de l'Angleterre (Royaume-Uni)"
      ],
      "wav_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-patent troll.wav"
    }
  ],
  "word": "patent troll"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Locutions nominales en anglais",
    "anglais"
  ],
  "etymology_texts": [
    "Composé de patent (« brevet ») et de troll (« troll »)."
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "patent trolls",
      "ipas": [
        "\\ˈpæt.ənt ˌtɹoʊlz\\",
        "\\ˈpeɪ.tənt ˌtɹəʊlz\\"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Anglais",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "pos_title": "Locution nominale",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Exemples en anglais"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "Marc Morgan,Stop Looking under the Bridge for Imaginary Creatures: A Comment Examining Who Really Deserves the Title Patent Troll, 2008",
          "text": "This perception of a patent troll must be changed because it unfairly gives a number of legitimate intellectual property businesses a bad name.",
          "translation": "Cette perception du patent troll doit être changée, car elle fait injustement mauvaise presse à un certain nombre de pratiques légitimes en propriété intellectuelle."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Patent troll."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "\\ˈpæt.ənt ˌtɹoʊl\\",
      "raw_tags": [
        "États-Unis"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "\\ˈpeɪ.tənt ˌtɹəʊl\\",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Royaume-Uni"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-patent troll.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/77/LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-patent_troll.wav/LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-patent_troll.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/77/LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-patent_troll.wav/LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-patent_troll.wav.ogg",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Sud de l'Angleterre (Royaume-Uni)"
      ],
      "wav_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-patent troll.wav"
    }
  ],
  "word": "patent troll"
}

Download raw JSONL data for patent troll meaning in Anglais (1.6kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Anglais dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-04-07 from the frwiktionary dump dated 2025-04-03 using wiktextract (51d164f and fb63907). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.