| 单词 | power-grabber |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspower-grabber power-grabber n. (a) U.S. a company, person, etc., seeking to acquire the right to generate and sell hydroelectric power at a particular location (now rare); (b) a person who or organization which covets or seeks to acquire power. ΚΠ 1906 Decatur Herald (Illinois) 9 Feb. 4/5 ‘It is nothing less than an insult to the nation to propose to turn..Niagara Falls into a huge power house to make electricity..’... Public sentiment to this effect has been voted thousands of times. But something more than that is required to stop the vandals and power grabbers. 1933 C. Connolly Spring Revol. in Condemned Playground (1946) iii. 179 Whether a patriot or a power-grabber, he was ridiculous. 1994 W. Shaw Spying in Guru Land (1995) vii. 188 The..chairman of the parliamentary group on cults at the time of the Waco siege..sees cults as power grabbers. < as lemmas |
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