| 单词 | conscription of wealth |
| 释义 | > as lemmasconscription of wealth 7. The requisition or levying of money, goods, etc., esp. for military purposes; an instance of this. Esp. in conscription of wealth. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military organization > logistics > [noun] > provision or procurement of supplies > requisitioning requisitionc1806 conscription1820 1820 H. Matthews Diary of Invalid (ed. 2) 389 There needs but one law more—a property tax, which is a conscription of money, as the other is of men. 1885 tr. M. d'Irisson Jrnl. Staff-officer Paris iii. 41 In such towns as are capable of sustaining a siege there is..a conscription of horses which must leave the coach or the plough to drag guns into action. 1916 Times 7 Jan. 6/5 Conscription of labour had been mentioned; but what about the conscription of wealth? Was not the nation needing money more than it was needing men? 1935 Princeton Alumni Weekly 15 Feb. 396/1 The total vote was 81.5 per cent for conscription of capital..in time of war. 1988 Jrnl. Brit. Stud. 27 287 This campaign for the conscription of wealth led inexorably to the demand for socialization in Labour's new constitution of 1918. 2011 Pittsburgh Tribune Rev. (Nexis) 17 July Liberals ramping up their thesis of better living through greater government conscription of wealth. < as lemmas |
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