单词 | fundholding |
释义 | fundholdingn. 1. Originally British. Investment in government securities. See fund n.1 3b. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > financial dealings > types of money-dealing > [noun] > investment > other types of investing or investment perpetual1833 fundholding1835 capital investment1842 floating1888 flotation1889 carried interest1908 ethical investment1915 National Savings1919 locking up1924 ploughing-back1924 foreign portfolio investment1951 inward investment1962 round-tripping1973 short-termism1986 1835 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 1 Aug. 197 You now see, that, after all, fund-holding has arrived, there, pretty nearly at the end of its tether. 1864 Times 20 Dec. 6/4 He seems anxious only to extend the blessings of fundholding to as large a class as possible. 1953 Economica 20 322 In presenting the analyses which follow, I have been concerned with the proportion of Dutch foreign, relative to domestic, fund-holding. 1978 Past & Present Feb. 74 The extent of fundholding in the provinces before 1780 is uncertain but it was certainly concentrated in the Home Counties. 2006 B. Hilton Mad, Bad, & Dangerous People? iii. 123 For eighty years fundholding, like paper money, had been strongly resented. In old country party demonology, fundholders were..usurers whose power over the State undermined civic virtue. 2. In the United Kingdom: a system of state funding whereby general practitioners choose to be allocated a budget with which to purchase patient care directly, as opposed to having their expenditure controlled by the local health authority. Now chiefly historical.GP fundholding was introduced in 1991 and abolished in 1999. ΚΠ 1990 Guardian 18 Jan. 2/1 My impression is that a high proportion of those practices which are eligible are interested in fund holding. 1991 Pulse 6 Apr. 84/6 GP fundholding is largely credited to a personal initiative by former Health Secretary Kenneth Clarke who introduced it into the NHS reforms after the original concept of the new NHS internal market..had been agreed. 1993 Guardian 20 Oct. i. 2/8 The royal colleges are anxious for action to curb what they call the gross inequalities of care produced by fund-holding. 1998 This Caring Business Feb. 12/1 In Wales General Practitioner Fundholding is to be abolished and replaced by Local Health Groups commissioning: subject to Parliamentary time Fundholding will cease on 1 April 1999. 2010 Economist 31 July 23/1 The revival of fundholding by family doctors (a reform proposed by Andrew Lansley, the health secretary) was championed by Policy Exchange earlier this year. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). fundholdingadj. 1. Originally British. That has money invested in government securities. See fund n.1 3b. Now historical. ΚΠ 1819 Examiner 8 Aug. 503/1 There was considerable apprehension.., which apprehension alone, as our fundholding readers well know, generally has a very depressing effect. 1869 Daily News 1 Sept. 5/2 The directors of the Bank of England are exhibiting a very commendable alacrity in adapting themselves and their system to the convenience of the fundholding and dividend-receiving public. 1894 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Sentinel 13 Nov. 4/5 The masters are the fund-holding millionaires ‘who have their hands on the throats of people through various forms of national, state, municipal, telegraph and railroad debts’. 1946 Econ. Hist. Rev. 16 19 Certain of them represented the foreign subscribers whose importance in the fund-holding body caused from time to time so much public disquiet. 2006 B. Hilton Mad, Bad, & Dangerous People? iii. 148 Society doctors, lawyers, architects, and engineers clearly belonged to the fundholding upper-middle class. 2. In the United Kingdom: designating a medical practice in which the general practitioners have chosen to be allocated a budget with which to purchase patient care directly, as opposed to having their expenditure controlled by the local health authority. Also: designating a general practitioner who has chosen to be allocated such a budget. Cf. fundholding n. 2. Now chiefly historical.GP fundholding was introduced in 1991 and abolished in 1999. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > healer > general practitioner > [adjective] > controlling own budget fundholding1989 the world > health and disease > healing > healer > medical practice > [adjective] > controlling own budget fundholding1989 1989 Independent 23 Nov. 3/3 As with self-governing hospitals, which the Bill firmly describes as ‘NHS Trusts’, ministers have changed the name from ‘practice budgets’ to ‘fund-holding practices’ to remove the word budget from the title. 1993 Private Eye 4 June 10/2 Hertfordshire now has so many fundholding GPs competing and bickering over contracts that cash-strapped hospitals are unable to cope with their excessive demands. 1995 Nursing Times 22 Mar. 148/1 (advt.) Associate Nurse required to work with..a busy 20,000 patient, fundholding, computerised general practice. 1997 Sunday Tel. 18 May (Rx Mag.) 25/3 Whether your local practice is fundholding or not may determine whether you are seen now, next month or sometime in the new millennium. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1835adj.1819 |
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