单词 | pre-entry |
释义 | pre-entryn.adj. A. n. 1. Bookkeeping. The making of a declaration of dutiable merchandise prior to loading and shipment. Cf. post entry n. 1. ΚΠ a1676 M. Hale Concerning Custom of Goods Imported & Exported xxi, in F. Hargrave Coll. Tracts Law Eng. (1787) 218 The pre-entry is that entry, which is made before the goods are laden aboard if to be transported, or before the goods imported be unladen, containing the certain content and the natures of such goods. 1787 F. Hargrave Coll. Tracts Relative to Law of Eng. I. 219 Touching the pre-entry by the merchant, this is of two kinds also, viz. an entry at sight, or an entry at the perill of the merchant. 1916 Times 5 Sept. 12/1 The Customs authorities can scarcely afford to ignore much longer the complaints respecting the alleged grievance of ‘Pre-entry’. 1994 J. Sherlock Princ. Internat. Physical Distribution viii. 181 These goods attract excise on import into the UK and, this is where pre-entry comes in, are excise free if exported. 2. gen. The action of entering beforehand; an instance of this; a preliminary or prior entry. ΚΠ 1926 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 10 July 10/2 It is even possible..that he would have visited Jerusalem to inspect the vacated graves, and to have enquired of the natives the mode of pre-entry of their occupants! 1953 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald Jrnl. 13 Feb. 33/4 Contestants for the tournament will be selected from the spectators at the show. There will be no pre-entries required. 1999 T. Kirkland Darlington International Raceway, 1950–67 i. 17 The Central States Racing Association..had provided no more than five pre-entries for [the] first Southern 500. B. adj. Of or relating to the period prior to entry, esp. into employment.In British use formerly frequently: spec. designating a closed shop (in a workplace, etc.) in which membership of a particular trade union is a prerequisite of appointment. Cf. post-entry adj. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > [adjective] > of specific trade-union requirements pre-entry1908 post-entry1936 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming in > [adjective] > before or after entry pre-entry1908 post-entry1936 1908 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 6 Jan. 6/1 The Government relies upon the proof of pre-entry conspiracy in order to obtain a conviction for the fraudulent entry and the subsequent transfer of the public land entered. 1937 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 31 875 What has been said thus far relates entirely to pre-entry training for the public service. 1964 W. E. J. McCarthy Closed Shop in Brit. ii. 52 On the most generous of estimates the number of workers affected by the pre-entry shop in all its forms is unlikely to be more than three-quarters of a million. 1991 M. Sullivan Marketing your Primary School (BNC) 97 Private schools usually give children some form of interview and pre-entry test before a place is offered. 2001 National Inst. Econ. Rev. (Nexis) 1 Apr. 76 With both pre-entry and post-entry closed shops now all but extinct.., the argument that the power of trade unions is derived from their ability to create artificial shortages of labour is less compelling. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.a1676 |
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