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Producers and directors think they have the power, but what they think of as the weakest link, the actor, is all-powerful.
Ken Stott

Meaning of "the weakest link" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF THE WEAKEST LINK

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WHAT DOES THE WEAKEST LINK MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Weakest Link

Weakest Link was a television game show which first appeared in the United Kingdom on BBC Two on 14 August 2000 and ended on 31 March 2012 when its host Anne Robinson ended her contract. The original British version of the show is still aired around the world on BBC Entertainment.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE THE WEAKEST LINK

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the West End
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the Wheel Blacks
the wherewithal
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the whip hand
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WORDS THAT END LIKE THE WEAKEST LINK

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Synonyms and antonyms of the weakest link in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «the weakest link» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF THE WEAKEST LINK

Find out the translation of the weakest link to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of the weakest link from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «the weakest link» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

最薄弱的环节
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

el eslabón más débil
570 millions of speakers

English

the weakest link
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

सबसे कमजोर कड़ी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الحلقة الأضعف
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

самое слабое звено
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

o elo mais fraco
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

দুর্বলতম লিঙ্ক
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

le maillon faible
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pautan paling lemah
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

das schwächste Glied
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

最も弱いリンク
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

가장 약한
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Pranala paling lemah
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

liên kết yếu nhất
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பலவீனமான இணைப்பு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

सर्वात कमकुवत दुवा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

En zayıf halka
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

l´anello più debole
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

najsłabszym ogniwem
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

найслабша ланка
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

veriga cea mai slabă
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ο πιο αδύναμος κρίκος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

die swakste skakel
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

den svagaste länken
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

det svakeste leddet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of the weakest link

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «THE WEAKEST LINK»

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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «THE WEAKEST LINK» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about the weakest link

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6 QUOTES WITH «THE WEAKEST LINK»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word the weakest link.
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Alan Dershowitz
Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice, and they are also the most protected.
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Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
The weakest link in a chain is the strongest because it can break it.
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Kevin Mitnick
Companies spend millions of dollars on firewalls, encryption, and secure access devices and it's money wasted because none of these measures address the weakest link in the security chain: the people who use, administer, operate and account for computer systems that contain protected information.
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Josiah Stamp
The individual source of the statistics may easily be the weakest link.
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Ken Stott
Producers and directors think they have the power, but what they think of as the weakest link, the actor, is all-powerful.
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John W. Thompson
What the Snowden scenario proved is that the weakest link is not the technology, the weakest link is the individual; we shouldn't kid ourselves.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «THE WEAKEST LINK»

Discover the use of the weakest link in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to the weakest link and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Goldratt's Theory of Constraints: A Systems Approach to ...
Where would the most logical place be to focus our efforts? Right! The weakest link! Would it do us any good to strengthen anything except the weakest link (that is, a nonconstraint)? Of course not. The chain would still break at the weakest link  ...
H. William Dettmer, 1997
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The Geotechnics of Hard Soils - Soft Rocks -
In the weakest link model, the strength of the specimen is decided by the weakest crack so that a lower bound of the strength may be given. A bundle model has been proposed by Daniel (1948) and Hasofer (1968). The strength of the bundles  ...
Aldo Evangelista, Luciano Picarelli, 1998
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Quality in the Analytical Chemistry Laboratory
You must be able to recognise each link in the chain and then establish which is the weakest link. To have any real effect on the final result the weakest link must be strengthened. Properties of the analyte such as volatility, sensitivity to light, ...
Ernest J. Newman, 1995
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Universal Principles of Design, Revised and Updated: 125 ...
Weakest. Link. The use of a weak element that will fail in order to protect other elements in the system from damage. It is said that a chain is only as strong as its weakest link. This suggests that the weakest link in a chain is also the least ...
William Lidwell, Kritina Holden, Jill Butler, 2010
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The Network Challenge (Chapter 22): The Weakest Link: ...
This is especially apparent in areas such as security and enterprise risk management, where the actions of a single player in an interconnected network can wreak havoc on everyone in the network.
Howard Kunreuther, 2009
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Handbook of Depression in Children and Adolescents
Within the framework of this theory, the weakest link hypothesis posits that an individual is as cognitively vulnerable to hopelessness depression as his or her most depressogenic inferential style makes him or her. Abela and Sarin argue that ...
John R. Z. Abela, Benjamin L. Hankin, 2008
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Business Communication
Poor listening may defeat the very purpose of oral communication. It has been found that generally people retain only one-fourth of what they hear after two days. In this way listening becomes the weakest link in oral communication.
Bhagaban Das, 2009
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Multiaxial Fatigue & Fracture
... Germany, Formerly Technical University of Clausthal, Institut fur Maschinelle Anlagentechnik und Betriebsfestigkeit, Leibnizstrasse 32, 38678 Clausthal- Zellerfeld, Germany ABSTRACT From the weakest link theory, the classical multiaxial ...
E. Macha, W. Bedkowski, T. Lagoda, 1999
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Price Theory and Applications: Decisions, Markets, and ...
For each alliance, the authors tentatively identified the likely weakest-link and best-shot nations. In the Warsaw Pact, for example, the Soviet Union was the obvious "best shot" (biggest contributor). For an alliance of the weakest-link type, the ...
Jack Hirshleifer, Amihai Glazer, David Hirshleifer, 2005
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Organizational Decision Making
8.6.2 Basic results on the weakest-link game The weakest-link (or minimum- action) game is a many-player version of the assurance game that captures the gist of any situation in which a group or organizational goal is disproportionately  ...
Zur Shapira, 2002

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «THE WEAKEST LINK»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term the weakest link is used in the context of the following news items.
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What happened to Anne Robinson? Weakest Link host looks …
Anne Robinson has sparked rumours she's gone under the knife after stepping out looking completely unrecognisable. The Weakest Link host, 70, was all ... «Mirror.co.uk, May 15»
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The weakest link
To ensure that this neglect does not become its Achilles' heel, the Modi sarkar will have to focus on and initiate reforms in this weakest link in the chain ... «The Indian Express, May 15»
3
Who Is Your Weakest Link? The Risks of Cloud Partners
“Security of any enterprise is only as strong as its weakest link. And recent breaches have shown that partners are often the weakest link,” said Sekhar Sarukkai, ... «CMSWire, Mar 15»
4
Are you the Weakest Link? ANNE ROBINSON sets some of her …
By the time the presenter, dubbed the Queen of Mean, relinquished her throne on The Weakest Link in 2012, there had been 1,693 episodes, more than 15,000 ... «Daily Mail, Dec 14»
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Where Are The Weakest Links Among Commodity Exporters?
In housing markets, five economies stand out as the "weakest links" among commodity exporters by virtue of the fact that house prices have been rising faster ... «Seeking Alpha, Dec 14»
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In cybersecurity, the weakest link... is you
A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. Computer security relies on a great number of links, hardware, software and something else altogether: you. «The Conversation UK, Oct 14»
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LeadingReach Aims to Close Healthcare's “Weakest Link,” Referrals
LeadingReach wants to shore up what it calls the weakest link in healthcare delivery: the referral. The six-month-old startup sells Web-based software to ... «Xconomy, Sep 14»
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The Weakest Link set for French makeover
BBC quiz The Weakest Link is to be remade for a second time in France, seven years after originally ended. French digital network D8 has commissioned a new ... «Broadcast, Jun 14»
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Humans are the Weakest Link in Cyber Security, Experts
Dubai: Organisations are more vulnerable to cyber intrusions now than ever before. As the attacks become more sophisticated, simple security controls are not ... «NDTV, May 14»
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In Cybersecurity, Sometimes the Weakest Link Is a Family Member
But security experts like to say security is only as strong as the weakest link. And in this case, the weakest link — I'm sorry to say — was my dad. The fact is that ... «New York Times, May 14»

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