| 单词 | office-mongering |
| 释义 | > as lemmasoffice-mongering office-mongering n. ΚΠ 1889 Polit. Sci. Q. 4 281 Members of Congress, politicians who have been in office and government officials generally have begun to regard office seeking and office mongering as an unnecessary and unbearable evil. a1919 T. Roosevelt in Ld. Charnwood Theodore Roosevelt (1923) 250 These men have a gift at office-mongering, just as other men have a peculiar knack in picking pockets. 1983 Jrnl. Mod. Hist. 55 488 The office-mongering of mid-Victorian Britain is proof of a spirited participatory culture, of a willingness to consider all facets of city life as important. < as lemmas |
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