move the dial

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move the dial (third-person singular simple present moves the dial, present participle moving the dial, simple past and past participle moved the dial)

  1. (business) To make a measurable difference.
    • 2014, Jared D. Harris, Brian Moriarty, Andrew C. Wicks, Public Trust in Business, page 140:
      The results in Table 5.2 show that changing the size of the firm in the vignette from small, regional, national, or global does not move the dial for trust, therefore not supporting Hypothesis 2a that public trust in business will be affected by the firm's size.
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