Topic: Staff Duties
The Owl (July, 1953)
Course journal; publication of the Defence Services Staff College, Wellington, India
Terms Current at Army Headquarters
| Serial (a) | Term (b) | Meaning (c) |
| 1 | Take remedial action. | Find some means of sorting this mess out. I cannot think of any. |
| 2 | Transferred for appropriate action. | I hope you will know what to do with this. |
| 3 | Emphasize this point. | Expand one page to fifteen. |
| 4 | Read and initial. | Spreading the responsibility for doing nothing on this. |
| 5 | Your recommendations are being examined. | More time is needed to think of an answer though a couple of months have already elapsed. |
| 6 | A modified policy. | A complete reversal which nobody admits. |
| 7 | A coordination staff officer. | An officer who has a desk between two expediters. |
| 8 | Under active consideration. | We are looking in the files for it. |
| 9 | Under consideration. | Never heard of it. |
| 10 | Expedite. | To compund confusion with commotion. |
| 11 | Resubmit through proper channels. | Tactical delaying action in respect of distasteful or troublesome communication. |
| 12 | Put up this letter on its file. | I do not know what action to take on it. I hope you do by the time you put it up. |
| 13 | File it. | I could not care less. I hope you do not either. |
| 14 | We may agree. | I cannot find any reason for objecting to the proposal but I dare not say 'I agree.' |
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