单词 | office-hunting |
释义 | > as lemmasoffice-hunting office-hunting n. ΚΠ 1800 T. Jefferson Let. 13 Aug. in Writings (1984) 1079 What an augmentation of the field for jobbing,..office-building and office-hunting would be produced by an assumption of all the state powers into the hands of the general government. 1889 J. S. Farmer Americanisms 397 Office-hunting is quite a business with the thousand-and-one ‘hangers-on’ to the skirts of political parties. 1997 Sunday Times (Nexis) 16 Feb. (Features section) [In Anne Somerset's description of James I's court] there is also office-hunting, dynastic vendettas, wizardry, espionage,..factionalism and unceasing malice. < as lemmas |
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