英语词汇“corporate welfare bum”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

corporate welfare bum n. Canadian colloquial (depreciative) a business or business executive perceived to be exploiting tax loopholes or benefiting unduly from government subsidies or tax breaks (cf. corporate welfare n.).Popularized by Canadian labour lawyer and politician David Lewis: see quots. 1972¹, 1972².

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1972 Winnipeg Free Press 23 Aug. (Final ed.) 1/1 Charges made by federal NDP Leader David Lewis, that oil companies were ‘corporate welfare bums..coddled by our so-called free enterprise government’.

1972 D. Lewis (title) Louder voices: corporate welfare bums.

2003 Globe & Mail (Canada) (Nexis) 16 Sept. b2 [The CEO's] effort to pry open the public purse probably will succeed. Just don't call him a corporate welfare bum. Spinners never like to be spun.

2015 Sherbrooke (Quebec) Record (Nexis) 22 May (Editorial section) a6 The humongous profits made by the corporate welfare bums of the fossil industry result in a degradation of the quality of the environment, health problems and losses of territory that are assumed by society.

单词	corporate welfare bum
释义	> as lemmas corporate welfare bum corporate welfare bum n. Canadian colloquial (depreciative) a business or business executive perceived to be exploiting tax loopholes or benefiting unduly from government subsidies or tax breaks (cf. corporate welfare n.).Popularized by Canadian labour lawyer and politician David Lewis: see quots. 1972¹, 1972². ΚΠ 1972 Winnipeg Free Press 23 Aug. (Final ed.) 1/1 Charges made by federal NDP Leader David Lewis, that oil companies were ‘corporate welfare bums..coddled by our so-called free enterprise government’. 1972 D. Lewis (title) Louder voices: corporate welfare bums. 2003 Globe & Mail (Canada) (Nexis) 16 Sept. b2 [The CEO's] effort to pry open the public purse probably will succeed. Just don't call him a corporate welfare bum. Spinners never like to be spun. 2015 Sherbrooke (Quebec) Record (Nexis) 22 May (Editorial section) a6 The humongous profits made by the corporate welfare bums of the fossil industry result in a degradation of the quality of the environment, health problems and losses of territory that are assumed by society. extracted from corporateadj.adv.n. < as lemmas
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