All 15 Uses
information technology
in
A Hologram for the King
(Edited)
- If Abdullah was impressed, he would award the IT contract for the entire city to Reliant, and Alan's commission, in the mid-six figures, would fix everything that ailed him.
p. 4.2IT = Information Technology (computer and telecommunications)
- And working for Reliant, the largest IT supplier in the world, was not challenging.
p. 20.6
- Providing IT for KAEC would mean at least a few hundred million for Reliant right away, and with more to come, and more crucially, a life of comfort for Alan.
p. 21.1
- You think he has sole discretion to make the decisions on IT here?
p. 67.4
- I'm here with Reliant, and we're pitching an IT system to King Abdullah.
p. 86.5
- The idea is to supply the city with IT, yes.
p. 93.7
- When the city was another Dubai, another Abu Dhabi or Nairobi, he could say he'd walked the foundation of the buildings, he'd laid the groundwork for all the IT in the whole damned place.
p. 133.7
- Before Alan could protest, Mujaddid had explained the various advantages of having a second home — he used the phrase pieda-terre — here at KAEC, especially for a man like himself, who was likely to be spending some time here implementing the IT plan.
p. 219.5
- Hearing what seemed to be the near certainty in Mujaddid's statement, the strong implication that Reliant's grip on the IT sale was unshakeable, gave Alan a burst of confidence.
p. 219.6
- He buys a condo, they give him the IT.
p. 221.2
- You mean IT?
p. 329.4
- It was Karim al-Ahmad, who informed him, regretfully, that the contract to provide IT to the new city had gone to another firm...
p. 330.2 *
- It was Karim al-Ahmad, who informed him, regretfully, that the contract to provide IT to the new city had gone to another firm that, he said, could deliver the IT far quicker and at less than half the cost.
p. 330.2
Uses with a meaning too common or too rare to warrant foucs:
- IT WAS SEVEN THIRTY when Alan figured it was time to knock himself out.
p. 101.1 *IT = a word to identify something or someone
- IT WAS THE SAUDI weekend and such an unstructured expanse was not good for Alan.
p. 193.1
Definitions:
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(1)
(information technology as in: IT or Information Technology) the branch of engineering that deals with the use of computers and telecommunications to retrieve and store and transmit information
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(2)
(meaning too common or too rare to warrant focus) It is much more commonly used to identify something or someone, as in "It was beautiful."