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Re:A “Perfect Storm” Moment for Multibillion-Dollar Open Sou... by arethuza on Wednesday March 26, 2014 @06:07AM (#7472470)
Is there a term for this kind of thing - where a word or phrase ends up being used in a way that is almost the exact opposite of how it started? ["meritocracy" is another example]
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Re:A “Perfect Storm” Moment for Multibillion-Dollar Open Sou... by decode on Wednesday March 26, 2014 @06:54AM (#7472608)
Words that can mean one thing and also the opposite thing are called auto-antonyms or contronyms.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto-antonym

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Re:A “Perfect Storm” Moment for Multibillion-Dollar Open Sou... by ForHackernews on Wednesday March 26, 2014 @11:09AM (#7473890)
"Cleave" is a great example: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/cleave?s=t
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Re:A “Perfect Storm” Moment for Multibillion-Dollar Open Sou... by arethuza on Wednesday March 26, 2014 @11:45AM (#7474186)
"Outstanding" is a good one as well

e.g. The outstanding areas of a research project

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