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单词 whitehall
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Whitehalln.

Brit. /ˈwʌɪthɔːl/, U.S. /ˈ(h)waɪtˌhɔl/, /ˈ(h)waɪtˌhɑl/
Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Whitehall.
Etymology: < Whitehall, the name of a road in Westminster, central London, which is lined with government departments and ministries.The road took its name from the Palace of Whitehall, the name given to the London residence of the Archbishops of York after its seizure by Henry VIII in 1530 (compare the first record of the name in that year, Whitehale alias Yorke place); this served as the main residence for monarchs in London until its destruction by fire in 1698. The name may have been suggested by the light-coloured stonework of the Great Hall built in 1528, although it may alternatively reflect either a transferred use of the name of the White Hall in the Palace of Westminster, or a wider tradition of naming banqueting halls in this way.
Chiefly British.
The government offices located in Whitehall, London; (hence allusively) the British civil service in general.
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > a or the government > civil service > [noun]
servicec1325
public service1576
Whitehall1716
civil service1816
striped trousers1958
1716 Needham's Dublin Post-man 25 Feb. Yesterday a Troop of Horse Guards drawn up at Whitehall.
1781 Town & Country Mag. May 444/2 Two persons..were brought to the American department at Whitehall, where their conduct underwent a more regular enquiry.
1835 J. Mackintosh et al. Hist. Eng. V. iii. 79 The seamen came in multitudes to Whitehall, demanding their pay.
1880 Yale Lit. Mag. May 296 Cromwell..seemed resolved..to destroy the liberties of England, and introduce in Whitehall the absolutism of the Louvre.
1931 J. Galsworthy Maid in Waiting xxii. 183 Without him, his flower, and his faint grin, Whitehall would have been shorn of something that made it almost human.
1946 ‘C. S. Forester’ Lord Hornblower ix. 79 Heaven only knew what Whitehall and Downing Street would say.
2012 Daily Tel. 12 Mar. 2/2 A government adviser on how Whitehall can make policy decisions more transparent.

Compounds

Whitehall farce n. any of five long-running bedroom farces produced at the Whitehall Theatre, London, between 1950–66; a play or other work reminiscent of these; (also as a mass noun) such works collectively.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > a play > [noun] > a comedy > a farce
farce1530
Atellan1628
burletta1748
sotie1807
farcetta1835
boulevard farce1838
Whitehall farce1956
1956 Listener 19 July 102/3 ‘Scintillating’ is a word I hesitate to use of Whitehall farce.
1966 Guardian 20 Aug. 4/4 Blackpool..fulfils a social need. Like a Whitehall farce, it dictates its own terms and makes general criticism futile.
1976 M. Gilbert Night of Twelfth v. 42 A love story mixed up with a Whitehall farce.
2011 A. Darling Back from Brink ii. 49 What followed would have been the stuff of a Whitehall farce had it not been so serious.
Whitehall warrior n. colloquial (sometimes depreciative) a civil servant; a member of the armed forces employed in administration rather than on active service.
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > a or the government > civil service > [noun] > civil servant
servantc1400
public servant1598
civil servant1767
fonctionnaire1887
Whitehall warrior1944
1944 Manch. Guardian 19 Feb. 4/4 Perhaps the Whitehall warriors who served a notice to quit on..the Scala Theatre felt that no one would miss a season of Shakespeare.
1976 A. White Long Silence vii. 57 I didn't want anybody to think I was a chairbound officer, a Whitehall Warrior.
1989 Guardian 30 Nov. 47/3 He enjoyed two periods of high drama—at least one more than most Whitehall warriors encounter.
2007 G. Bennett Churchill's Man of Myst. x. 201 He was..an experienced Whitehall warrior with a formidable expertise in economic and scientific matters.

Derivatives

Whiteˈhallese n. depreciative official jargon regarded as typical of the British civil service.
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the mind > language > a language > register > [noun] > jargon > used by other groups
indenture Englisha1568
water language1702
jockeyism1802
slum1812
Polari1846
stable-language1856
scientificism1860
water-slang1860
Oxfordish1863
galley-slang1867
pitmatic1885
commercialese1910
legalese1911
academese1917
Hollywoodese1920
businessese1921
Hollywoodism1925
trade unionese1927
advertisingese1929
officese1935
sociologese1940
Whitehallese1940
Newspeak1949
patter1949
Pentagonese1950
educationese1958
computerese1960
managementese1961
spacespeak1963
computer-speak1968
techno-jargon1972
business-speak1973
Eurospeak1975
Euro-jargon1976
technospeak1976
doctorspeak1977
corporate-speak1978
medspeak1979
mellowspeak1979
technobabble1981
teenspeak1982
management-speak1986
codespeak1987
1940 Manch. Guardian Weekly 9 Mar. 12/2 The pomposities of business English and Whitehallese.
1960 E. Partridge Charm of Words 22 Whitehallese, or gobbledygook, the language of lesser officials and of politicians.
1975 Economist 15 Feb. 115/2 In spite of long exposure to Whitehallese, she writes in English.
1990 New Scientist 17 Nov. 64/2 Under Regular Review is Whitehallese for ‘We have no intention whatsoever of doing anything at all about it’.
Whiteˈhallism n. chiefly depreciative attitudes or behaviour regarded as typical of the British civil service.
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society > authority > office > [noun] > officialism or bureaucracy
red tape1736
bureaucracy1815
bureauism1829
red-tapery1831
red-tapism1834
officiality1841
functionarism1842
officialism1849
red-tapedom1850
red tapeworm1851
tapism1852
green-ferret1853
officialty1853
paperasserie1856
paperchase1856
paper-chasing1876
departmentalism1886
Whitehallism1915
striped trousers1958
1915 R. Esher Let. 21 Oct. in Jrnls & Lett. (1938) III. 268 In the Navy..there seems to be a trifle too much of ‘Whitehallism’.
1958 Times 15 Nov. 8/3 He said the Government were snubbing Wales and there was no prospect of ‘Whitehallism’ ever understanding Welsh aspirations.
2011 Financial Adviser (Nexis) 31 Mar. The discussion and analysis of social issues were seen through the one-dimensional prism of Whitehallism.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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