单词 | weeding-out process |
释义 | > as lemmasweeding-out process General attributive, as weeding-out process, weeding-out policy, etc. ΚΠ 1850 Newcastle Courant 8 Nov. This ‘weeding out’ process is now in full operation. 1893 Papers & Proc. 15th Gen. Meeting Amer. Libr. Assoc. 22/2 As a State librarian I believe I should be an advocate of the weeding-out process if we could get those people who are not entitled to public documents to give them up. 1932 New Yorker 14 May 56/2 I should like to hear some of the manuscripts that the weeding-out committee considered inferior to the final five. 1981 D. Francis Twice Shy xii. 139 He disagreed strongly with my weeding-out policy, even though I'd..discussed every dud [horse] to be discarded. 2006 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 4 June (Late ed.) x. 1/1 This year's crop of would-be interns, who gathered for a weeding-out process. < as lemmas |
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