| 单词 | shovel-ready |
| 释义 | > as lemmasshovel-ready shovel-ready adj. chiefly U.S. (of a building project or development site) ready for construction to begin immediately, with all preliminary stages of approval and planning complete; also in extended use. ΚΠ 1995 Telegram & Gaz. (Worcester, Mass.) 22 Feb. a8/3 Brewer noted that projects seeking approval from the state Board of Education have to be ‘shovel ready’. That means plans must be drawn, environmental permits obtained, local approvals and money in hand, and construction ready to start. 2002 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 11 Sept. c4 (advt.) Sixty-acre ‘Shovel Ready’ Business Park that is only 90 minutes from Manhattan. 2009 Foreign Policy May 84 To use the current bailout jargon, at least three major technologies are shovel-ready. 2010 M. Abramson Snowman xiii. 119 It had something to do with Obama's stimulus package for shovel-ready projects. 2012 New Yorker 16 Jan. 55/3 [He] won an exemption from California Environmental Quality Act litigation, and declared that his stadium project..was ‘shovel-ready’. < as lemmas |
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