| 释义 |
postalize, v.|ˈpəʊstəlaɪz|
[f. postal a. (n.) + -ize.]
To make like the postal system in respect of its fixed prices for delivery, regardless of distance. So postaliˈzation.
1893Review of Reviews Oct. 394 Why not postalize Railway Traffic, and go as far as you like for 2½d? 1939Sun (Baltimore) 19 Jan. 14/7 (heading) I.C.C. seeks order for investigating postalized rail fares. Ibid., Chairman Marion M. Caskie..suggested today that the commission be given a mandate from Congress before investigating the Hastings plan for postalization of the railroads. 1950Economist 16 Sept. 472/2 There is also some pressure for extending the system of ‘postalisation’ whereby United Kingdom consumers as a whole bear the transport charges. 1953Ibid. 27 June 894/1 It takes a good deal of economic sophistication nowadays to see anything wrong with the principle of ‘postalisation’—the principle of the postal service, that the consumers in thickly populated areas who can be served cheaply should subsidise the high-cost consumers elsewhere. 1966Ibid. 17 Sept. 1166/1 This American gas expert, incidentally, would suggest selling to all boards at the same price, which might certainly interest the boards remote from Britain's east coast; but this idea of ‘postalising gas’ seems an ancillary frill on this argument. |