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to foothold
noun
A solid grip with the feet.
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It's the same technique used to foothold the attack on Heartland Payment Systems, in which hackers gained access to millions of credit card numbers in what is perhaps the largest financial breach of all time.
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Mechanical engineer Elliot Hawkes of Stanford tested the new adhesive by strapping his feet to footholds connected to the patches through a rod.
Al Qaeda and its affiliates try to gain foothold in some of the most distant and unforgiving places on Earth.
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Owned by SK Telecom, trying to gain foothold in U.S. Orkut | headquartered in: Mountain View, calif.
Pegs (wooden dowels 17 cm × 0.9 cm) were plugged into the holes to provide footholds for the rats to climb on.
No outside power would attempt to gain a strategic foothold to use against other outside powers.
This facilitates blocking of cell detachment and hence the bacteria are able to gain a foothold for infection to proceed.
James K. Polk reiterated Monroe's principles in warning Britain and Spain not to establish footholds in Oregon, California, or Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula.
A bevy of other European telephone operators and several United States telecommunications companies are looking to establish footholds in Europe.
"After that we were looking to gain footholds in the Irish half but they prevented us from doing so.
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