单词 | self-select |
释义 | self-selectadj. Designating a product, service, etc., which allows or requires a customer, user, or participant to make his or her own selection. ΚΠ 1956 Waco (Texas) News-Tribune 10 Apr. 12/2 (advt.) Cox's completely remodeled notion shop featuring greater notion variety, easy self-select displayers all at value packed, home-budget prices. 1969 Chron.-Telegram (Elyria, Ohio) 19 Mar. d10/1 Pepsi Cola self select coin oper. pop machine, 30 cup coffee maker, and other items. 1982 N.Y. Times 8 Aug. (Travel section) 16/1 You can pick your own, one or many, from the self-select flower bar. 1997 Investors Chron. 19 Sept. 44/3 If you do want to hold the shares in a Pep, you'll have to do so through a self-select plan. 2008 Church Times 15 Aug. 13/2 I, too, would have liked to hear many of the other self-select sessions. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). self-selectv. rare before mid 20th cent. 1. transitive. To choose or determine (something) oneself, typically without assistance or guidance. Also occasionally intransitive. ΚΠ 1842 Amer. Jrnl. Pharmacy 14 19 These two opposite conditions, self-selected by the respective parties. 1954 L. T. Hopkins Emerging Self v. 145 Each individual must have free opportunity to self-select from the moving experience those learnings which in his judgment best satisfy his need. 1960 F. S. C. Northrop Philos. Anthropol. & Pract. Politics iv. 71 Human beings,..unlike calculating machines, self-select in part the data and information that is fed into them. 1984 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 4 Dec. c1 Even children self-select diets that are right for their own nervous systems. 2001 Financial Times 27 Jan. (Money section) 8/1 (advt.) The benefits of self-selecting your..ISA. 2. intransitive and transitive (reflexive). To put oneself into a particular group, esp. through one's lifestyle choices. Frequently with to, into (a group), or occasionally with out of. ΚΠ 1960 Social Probl. 8 103/1 It seems clear that members, to some extent, self-select themselves to groups of approximately their own social class level. 1973 Jrnl. Marriage & Family 35 601/2 Females of less than average fecundity may self-select into the labor force. 1988 J. D. Brown Understanding Res. in Second Lang. Learning iv. 31 Mortality refers to students who self-select themselves out of a group by dropping out of the study. 1996 Times 21 Aug. 12/4 The crowd self-selects because this isn't a club for the passing trade. 2005 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 3 Apr. ix. 14/1 It may well be true that people self-select into certain professions based on their habitual sleep schedules. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1956v.1842 |
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