单词 | place-hunting |
释义 | place-huntingn. Chiefly depreciative. Now rare (chiefly archaic). The action or practice of persistently pursuing government office, esp. for reasons of self-interest. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > working > labour supply > [noun] > seeking post in public service place-hunting1806 1806 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 14 June 882 This last might have been a very good argument to convince you that place-hunting ran in the family. 1860 J. S. Mill Consider. Represent. Govt. (1865) 34/2 Place-hunting..is a form of ambition to which the English..are almost strangers. 1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. II. lxv. 489 Place-hunting is the career, and an office is not a public trust, but a means of requiting party services. 1911 A. W. Tilby British N. Amer. (1916) ix. iv. 128 It certainly did not abolish the old evils of place-hunting—the remedy for that seemingly incurable disease is still to seek. 1971 Hist. Jrnl. 14 295 Confronted with his attacks on the vulgarity, the centralization, the materialism, the levelling, the place-hunting of democracy. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). place-huntingadj. Chiefly depreciative. Now rare (chiefly archaic). That seeks, or aims for, a desirable place; spec. that persistently seeks a desirable job in government service. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > working > labour supply > [adjective] > seeking employment > in public service place-hunting1818 1818 W. C. Hazlitt in Yellow Dwarf 2 May 142/2 [Byron] goes on to disdain this idol..in a strain of effeminate and rancorous abuse worthy of Mr. Wordsworth's pastoral, place-hunting Muse. 1823 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 16 Aug. 435 A place-hunting lawyer. 1898 J. E. C. Bodley France II. iii. v. 257 The place-hunting solicitations of constituents. 1966 Amer. Hist. Rev. 71 1331 He became the outstanding example of the small-minded, boroughmongering, place-hunting politician in the Age of Walpole and the Pelhams. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1806adj.1818 |
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