单词 | social promotion |
释义 | > as lemmassocial promotion social promotion n. (a) advancement in social class or standing; (b) Education (chiefly U.S.) the promotion of a pupil to a more advanced class based on his or her age or behaviour, despite a lack of appropriate academic achievement. ΚΠ 1840 R. Mudie Man, in his Relations to Society iii. 107 The only alternative to the begging is obtaining the social promotion by fraud. 1907 ‘M. Twain’ Christian Sci. ii. vii. 201 She once prized money for the ease and comfort it could bring, the showy vanities it could furnish, and the social promotion it could command. 1948 Washington Post 16 Sept. 10/5 And too many high schools either cannot or do not teach at the level they should. Due to social promotion or mass education, the students get no basis. 1975 N.Y. Times 18 Mar. 23/2 Social promotion has meant that fewer children are held back, making the test group at each grade younger than it used to be. 1998 S. Ferchiou in R. A. Lobban Middle Eastern Women & Invisible Econ. iii. ix. 194 Women's work remains depreciated and affords them no possibility of social promotion. 2001 D. Milbank Smashmouth i. iii. 30 His solutions for these big goals, not surprisingly, are small proposals—an end to social promotion here, a mentoring program there. < as lemmas |
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