| 释义 |
pensioneer, v.|ˌpɛnʃəˈnɪə(r)|
[f. pension n. + -eer, after electioneer v.]
To bid for votes in an election by promising higher pensions. Hence ˌpensioˈneering vbl. n.
1959Daily Tel. 9 June 17/4 The word ‘pensioneering’..has recently been added to the political vocabulary... ‘Pensioner, you can't trust the Labour Party. They are simply pensioneering, trying to buy your votes on a promise of 10s.’ 1960Times 24 Oct. (Financial Rev.) p. xiii/3 That the paradox of comparative insecurity in the midst of affluence is a disturbing thing..has become apparent in the political field..in the shape of competitive ‘pensioneering’. 1963Times 23 Jan. 11/7 As the number of pensioners who could not recover financially from the great depression of the 1930's falls away, what The Times called ‘pensioneering’ becomes politically less productive. a1974R. Crossman Diaries (1975) I. 276 Under cross⁓examination they got into a horrible mess and confirmed my fear that the whole strategy of our pensioneering, worked out for years before the election, had been jettisoned almost without noticing it by the Minister under the diktat of Douglas Houghton. |