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In some senses, jasm is marked as archaic, slang, US. Watch for register when choosing this word.
jasm
noun 3
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3ADJ.
frank, full, junior, kind
VERB + JASM
tell
JASM + NOUN
exec, sargent
Definitions
noun
1
Zest for accomplishment; drive.
Jeremy has the kind of jasm a junior exec needs to reach the top of the ladder in the corporate world.
“Yes, sir. No mistake about that. Oh! she's just as full of jasm!” Frank Sargent laughed again. “You've got the start of me,” said he. “Now tell me what ‘jasm’ is.” “Well, it’s a sort of word, I guess, that made itself,” said Cheek. “It’s a good one though—jasm is. If you’ll take thunder and lightning, and a steamboat and a buzz-saw, and mix ’em up, and put ’em into a woman, that’s jasm.”
2
Jazz.
noun
1
Initialism of junior assistant scoutmaster.
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Jeremy has the kind of jasm a junior exec needs to reach the top of the ladder in the corporate world.
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“Yes, sir. No mistake about that. Oh! she's just as full of jasm!” Frank Sargent laughed again. “You've got the start of me,” said he. “Now tell me what ‘jasm’ is.” “Well, it’s a sort of word, I guess
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I don’t think there is anything more pitiful than a man, who has been in business for himself, to have to give up and say he is a failure. It hurts to be compelled to go into some one’s shop as a cler
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