â¢ Placement fees are often not tax deductible by a manager, making the manager reluctant to bear such fees directly. The typical solution is for the fund to bear the placement fee, but require an offset against management fees of 100% of any placement agent fees paid by such fund.
If your little sister seems fascinated by the harlequin character in the play you're watching together, it might be because of the brightly colored, diamond-patterned tights he's wearing. A harlequin is a classic comic pantomime character. In traditional pantomime, a comic performance with silent actors, a harlequin is a funny character who wears a mask and a distinctive diamond-patterned costume. The word harlequin sometimes describes bright, many-colored colored things, like a harlequin circus tent.
From the French mannequin, from the Dutch manneken (â little man â), diminutive of Dutch man (â man â), equivalent to man +â -kin; compare ramequin/ramekin. More at man, -kin. Pronunciation . IPA : /ËmÃ¦nÉËkÉªn/ Homophone: manakin; Noun . mannequin (plural mannequins) 1  A dummy, or life-size model of the human body, used for the fitting or displaying of clothes. 2  A jointed model of the human body used by artists, especially to demonstrate the arrangement of drapery. 3  An anatomical model of the human body for use in teaching of e.g. 4  A person who models clothes.