| 单词 | disaster relief |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdisaster relief C1. attributive in terms relating to response to or preparation for (esp. natural) disasters, as disaster management, disaster relief, etc. ΚΠ 1867 Times 15 Mar. 6/4 (headline) Padstow Lifeboat Disaster Relief Fund. 1871 Cleveland (Ohio) Morning Daily Herald 9 Aug. 1/4 The members of the Fifth regiment..paid in $696 for relief of the family of Sergeant Elsasser, a Westfield disaster victim. 1898 Fayetteville (N. Carolina) Observer 2 Mar. 4/1 The Maine disaster situation remains the same. 1929 Amer. Jrnl. Nursing 29 721/1 The most careful consideration was given to the question of disaster preparedness. 1957 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 309 53 The first enactment of a general federal policy of disaster assistance was the Surplus Property Disaster Act of 1947. 1989 Atlantic Apr. 18/3 The military's most valuable function has been to clean up after typhoons and provide other forms of disaster relief. 2002 D. Goleman et al. Business: Ultimate Resource 1227/3 Disaster management includes the development of disaster recovery plans for minimising the risk of disasters. < as lemmas |
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