fiftyadj.n.

Brit.

/ˈfɪfti/, U.S.

/ˈfɪfti/

Forms: Old English fifteg, Old English fifteig (Northumbrian), Old English fifteih (Northumbrian), Old English fiftig, Old English fiftih (Northumbrian), Old English fiftyg (rare), Old English fittig (rare), Old English fyfteg (rare), Old English fyftig (rare), Old English–1600s fifti, early Middle English fifiti, early Middle English vifty (in a copy of an Old English charter), Middle English ffifty, Middle English ffyffty, Middle English ffyfti, Middle English ffyfty, Middle English fifftie, Middle English fifftiȝ, Middle English fifte, Middle English fyfftie, Middle English fyffty, Middle English fyfte, Middle English fyfti, Middle English fyftye, Middle English vifti, Middle English–1600s fiftye, Middle English–1600s fyftie, Middle English–1600s fyfty, Middle English–1700s fiftie, Middle English– fifty, 1500s ffyvetie, 1500s fifety, 1500s fiuetie, 1500s fiuety, 1500s fyfety, 1500s fyuetie, 1600s fifetie, 1600s fiffty, 1600s fivety; English regional 1800s vifty (south-western); Scottish pre-1700 feftie, pre-1700 fifitei, pre-1700 fifte, pre-1700 fifti, pre-1700 fiftie, pre-1700 fiftj, pre-1700 fifty, pre-1700 fiiftie, pre-1700 fithty, pre-1700 fivty, pre-1700 fyffty, pre-1700 fyfti, pre-1700 fyftie, pre-1700 fyftye, pre-1700 fyiftie, pre-1700 fyifty, pre-1700 fyuety, pre-1700 fyvety, pre-1700 1800s fyfty. Also represented by the numerical symbols 50, l, L.

Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.

Etymology: Cognate with Old Frisian fīftich , fīchtich , fuftich (West Frisian fyftich ), Old Dutch fīftig (Middle Dutch vijftich , Dutch vijftig ), Old Saxon fīftig (Middle Low German veftich , viftich , vöftich ), Old High German fimfzug (Middle High German vünfzec , vünfzic , German fünfzig ), Old Icelandic fimm tigir , fimmtíu (Icelandic fimmtíu ), Old Swedish fämtighi , fämtio , fämti (Swedish femtio ), Old Danish, Danish femti , Gothic fimftigjus < the Germanic base of five adj. + the Germanic base of -ty suffix².Old Icelandic fimmtíu (Icelandic fimmtíu ) and Old Swedish fämtio (Swedish femtio ) show remodelling of the suffix after the respective forms of ten adj. The usual word in modern Danish is halvtreds (shortened < halvtredjesindstyve , literally ‘half of the third time twenty’), although femti is still used in certain (especially commercial) contexts. As with other cardinal numerals, Old English shows use of uninflected forms (prefixed and unprefixed) with partitive genitive plural of the noun (compare quot. c1000 at sense A. a). This was originally use as noun, but the construction merges with attributive use as adjective in Middle English.

A. adj.

a. The cardinal numeral equal to five tens, represented by the symbols 50 or l. Also with omission of the noun, and in combination with numbers below ten (ordinal and cardinal), as fifty-one, fifty-first, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eleven to ninety-nine > [adjective] > fifty

fiftyOE

OE Beowulf 2733 Ic ðas leode heold fiftig wintra.

c1000 Ælfric Deut. xxii. 29 Fiftig yntsena seolfres.

a1175 Cott. Hom. 225 Fifti fedme wid.

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 645 Fifti scipen fulle.

1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (1724) 518 Arst he adde ileye an erthe vnssrined vifti ȝer.

c1325 Metr. Hom. 18 A man haht him fifty penis.

c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 192 Fourty or fyfty in a queer.

1483 Cath. Angl. 132/2 Fifte sithe, quinquagesies.

c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 4064 In hor company come clene shippes fyfté.

a1561 G. Cavendish Metrical Visions (1980) 44 This ffyvetie or threscore yere.

1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost iv. iii. 241 A witherd Hermight fiuescore winters worne, Might shake off fiftie, looking in her eye.

1611 Bible (King James) Gen. ix. 28 And Noah liued after the flood, three hundred and fifty yeeres.

1683 in Pennsylvania Arch. (1852) I. 57 To secure the Paeyment of fivety pounds of like money.

1777 W. Robertson Hist. Amer. (1783) II. 377 Near the fifty-third degree of latitude.

1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess v. 109 Some fifty on a side.

1878 J. Morley Carlyle in Crit. Misc. 1st Ser. 199 The disruption of the French monarchy fifty years afterwards.

b. Used indefinitely as a large number.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > mathematical number or quantity > [adjective] > with respect to size

smallc1400

long1712

numerical1812

fifty1819

normed1935

significant1962

1819 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto I cviii. 57 When people say, ‘I've told you fifty times’, They mean to scold.

1870 C. Kingsley in Good Words 204/1 A merchant..who had fifty things to tell us of his own special business.

†c. = fiftieth adj. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eleven to ninety-nine > [adjective] > fifty > fiftieth

fiftiethc1000

fifty1539

1539 C. Tunstall Serm. Palme Sondaye (1823) 58 Expoundynge the gospel of John in the fyfty treaty.

1578 T. Tymme tr. J. Calvin Comm. Genesis 156 As we may read in the fiftie Psalme.

B. n.

1. A set of fifty persons or things.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eleven to ninety-nine > [noun] > set of fifty

fiftyc1000

quinquagenea1538

c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Mark (Corpus Cambr.) vi. 40 Hi þa sæton hundredon & fiftigon.

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Luke ix. 14 Make hem to sitte to mete by feestis, fyftyes.

1611 Bible (King James) 2 Kings i. 13 Hee sent againe a captaine of the third fiftie, with his fiftie.

1611 Bible (King James) 1 Macc. iii. 55 Iudas ordained..captains..ouer fifties, and ouer tennes.

1845 J. Lingard Hist. & Antiq. Anglo-Saxon Church (ed. 3) II. ix. 71 ‘Every deacon read two passions..and each of God's servants (the inferior members of the brotherhood) two fifties’ (fifty psalms).

1894 Times 23 Feb. 8/4 The price rose by fifties to £3,450.

a. The age of fifty years.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > source or principle of life > age > [noun] > specific age

yearOE

scorea1400

seventeena1568

threescorea1616

jubileea1640

military age1656

legal age1658

tecnogoniaa1676

sixty1717

forty1732

fifty1738

seven-year-old1762

teen1789

septuagenarianism1824

sexagenarianism1824

day-old1831

seventeen-year-old1858

centenarianism1863

roaring forties1867

twenties1874

leaving age1875

school-leaving age1881

octogenarianism1883

reading age1906

three1909

teenage1912

eleven-plus1937

1738 A. Pope 7th Epist. 1st Bk. Horace in Wks. II. ii. 73 Near fifty, and without a Wife.

1855 Ld. Tennyson Maud vi. v, in Maud & Other Poems 26 Ah, what shall I be at fifty Should Nature keep me alive?

b. the fifties: the years between fifty and sixty in a particular century or in one's life.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > period > year > [noun] > period of specific number of years > decade > specific decade in a century or person's life

seventies1845

nineties1871

twenties1874

the fifties1880

the thirties1880

the forties1885

sixties1964

zeros1989

1880 R. Broughton Second Thoughts II. iii. iv. 157 I know that I am somewhere in the fifties, and that I was born on a Monday.

1889 R. B. Anderson tr. V. Rydberg Teutonic Mythol. 9 A series of works published in the fifties and sixties.

†3. A fifty-gun ship. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > war vessel > [noun] > vessel carrying certain number of guns > twenty or more

ship of post1731

post ship1747

seventy-four1777

fifty1778

forty-four1821

1778 E. Burke Corr. (1844) II. 249 Two ships of the line, two fifties, and about four lesser frigates.

1799 Naval Chron. 1 292 Ships of the line 188, Fifties 27.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

fifty-fold adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eleven to ninety-nine > [adverb] > fifty times as much

fifty-folda1616

c1000 Ælfric Gram. (Z.) 285 Quinquagenarius, fiftigfeald.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) i. ii. 61 Till the worst of all follow him laughing to his graue, fifty-fold a Cuckold.

1872 R. A. Proctor Ess. Astron. xi. 156 Exceeding fiftyfold the volume of the Sun.

fifty-gun-ship adj.

ΚΠ

1806 A. Duncan Life Nelson 58 Ten sail of the line, and a fifty-gun-ship.

1832 F. Marryat Newton Forster I. xiii. 187 A fifty-gun ship, frigate, and two corvettes, made their appearance.

C2.

fifty-pence piece n. a cupro-nickel heptagonal coin worth fifty (new) pence, introduced in the U.K. in 1969 during the conversion to decimal currency.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > English coins > [noun] > other miscellaneous English coins

baselinga1255

scute1472

basel1577

lundress1695

halfling1819

wire money1837

brabant1840

fifty-pence piece1969

twenty-pence piece1981

1969 Economist 18 Oct. 87/2 From this week the new 50p piece will gradually start replacing the old brown 10s notes.

1979 Washington Post 10 July a17/6 The British 50-pence piece has seven sides and is unambiguous.

1986 R. Rendell Live Flesh ii. 24 The room heater could be made to function by the insertion of twenty-pence pieces and the water heater fifty-pence pieces.

fifty-penny piece n.

ΚΠ

1970 O. Norton Dead on Prediction ii. 34 The fifty-penny pieces still didn't look worth ten shillings to me.

fifty-per-cent adj. usurious.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > financial dealings > moneylending > [adjective] > relating to or characterized by usury > characteristic of usurer

Lombardinian1602

usurious1727

fifty-per-cent1825

1825 A. Knapp & W. Baldwin Newgate Cal. III. 496/1 No trades~man of a fifty per cent. conscience.

fifty-six n. dialect and U.S. a fifty-six pound weight.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement by weighing > equipment for weighing > [noun] > a weight > weighing specific amount

stone-weight1552

stone1556

poundstone1577

pound-weight1765

fifty-sixa1800

a1800 Spirit of Farmers' Museum (1801) 176 He had no notion of hanging a fifty-six to his chin, for the sake of lengthening his face to the taste of a wilful audience.

1886 W. Somerset Word-bk. Vifty-six,..a weight of 56 lbs.—the usual name for a half-hundredweight stone.

fifty-weight n. half a hundredweight.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement by weighing > [noun] > unit or denomination of weight > hundredweight > half of hundredweight

fifty gross1764

fifty-weight1840

?1677 S. Primatt City & Covntry Purchaser & Builder 105 Nine hundred and fifty weight of Lead taken up in Ledges and Gutters.

1840 W. S. Mayo Kaloolah 140 Packing on my back about fifty weight of iron bolts.

Draft additions 1993

fifty-year rule n. a rule that public records should normally be open to inspection after a lapse of fifty years from their compilation (superseded in the U.K. from 1968 by the thirty-year rule: see thirty adj. and n. Compounds 2).

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > record > written record > historical record or chronicle > [noun] > specific rule applying to historical records

fifty-year rule1959

1912 1st Rep. Royal Comm. Public Rec. 51 in Parl. Papers 1912–13 (Cd. 6361) I. 13 The following improvements are..considered desirable... Throwing all Departmental Records open to public inspection down to 1837, and all other Public Records after 50 years from their date, without exception in either case.]

1959 Encounter Aug. 41/1 The ‘fifty-year rule’ which the archivists of the most enlightened countries claim to observe is a rule of rough-and-ready nature.

1966 Times 11 Aug. 13/2 Mr. Luard..asked the Prime Minister for a further statement about the relaxation of the 50-year rule governing the opening to public inspection of Cabinet and other official documents.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	fifty
释义	fiftyadj.n. Brit. /ˈfɪfti/, U.S. /ˈfɪfti/ Forms: Old English fifteg, Old English fifteig (Northumbrian), Old English fifteih (Northumbrian), Old English fiftig, Old English fiftih (Northumbrian), Old English fiftyg (rare), Old English fittig (rare), Old English fyfteg (rare), Old English fyftig (rare), Old English–1600s fifti, early Middle English fifiti, early Middle English vifty (in a copy of an Old English charter), Middle English ffifty, Middle English ffyffty, Middle English ffyfti, Middle English ffyfty, Middle English fifftie, Middle English fifftiȝ, Middle English fifte, Middle English fyfftie, Middle English fyffty, Middle English fyfte, Middle English fyfti, Middle English fyftye, Middle English vifti, Middle English–1600s fiftye, Middle English–1600s fyftie, Middle English–1600s fyfty, Middle English–1700s fiftie, Middle English– fifty, 1500s ffyvetie, 1500s fifety, 1500s fiuetie, 1500s fiuety, 1500s fyfety, 1500s fyuetie, 1600s fifetie, 1600s fiffty, 1600s fivety; English regional 1800s vifty (south-western); Scottish pre-1700 feftie, pre-1700 fifitei, pre-1700 fifte, pre-1700 fifti, pre-1700 fiftie, pre-1700 fiftj, pre-1700 fifty, pre-1700 fiiftie, pre-1700 fithty, pre-1700 fivty, pre-1700 fyffty, pre-1700 fyfti, pre-1700 fyftie, pre-1700 fyftye, pre-1700 fyiftie, pre-1700 fyifty, pre-1700 fyuety, pre-1700 fyvety, pre-1700 1800s fyfty. Also represented by the numerical symbols 50, l, L. Origin: A word inherited from Germanic. Etymology: Cognate with Old Frisian fīftich , fīchtich , fuftich (West Frisian fyftich ), Old Dutch fīftig (Middle Dutch vijftich , Dutch vijftig ), Old Saxon fīftig (Middle Low German veftich , viftich , vöftich ), Old High German fimfzug (Middle High German vünfzec , vünfzic , German fünfzig ), Old Icelandic fimm tigir , fimmtíu (Icelandic fimmtíu ), Old Swedish fämtighi , fämtio , fämti (Swedish femtio ), Old Danish, Danish femti , Gothic fimftigjus < the Germanic base of five adj. + the Germanic base of -ty suffix².Old Icelandic fimmtíu (Icelandic fimmtíu ) and Old Swedish fämtio (Swedish femtio ) show remodelling of the suffix after the respective forms of ten adj. The usual word in modern Danish is halvtreds (shortened < halvtredjesindstyve , literally ‘half of the third time twenty’), although femti is still used in certain (especially commercial) contexts. As with other cardinal numerals, Old English shows use of uninflected forms (prefixed and unprefixed) with partitive genitive plural of the noun (compare quot. c1000 at sense A. a). This was originally use as noun, but the construction merges with attributive use as adjective in Middle English. A. adj. a. The cardinal numeral equal to five tens, represented by the symbols 50 or l. Also with omission of the noun, and in combination with numbers below ten (ordinal and cardinal), as fifty-one, fifty-first, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eleven to ninety-nine > [adjective] > fifty fiftyOE OE Beowulf 2733 Ic ðas leode heold fiftig wintra. c1000 Ælfric Deut. xxii. 29 Fiftig yntsena seolfres. a1175 Cott. Hom. 225 Fifti fedme wid. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 645 Fifti scipen fulle. 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (1724) 518 Arst he adde ileye an erthe vnssrined vifti ȝer. c1325 Metr. Hom. 18 A man haht him fifty penis. c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 192 Fourty or fyfty in a queer. 1483 Cath. Angl. 132/2 Fifte sithe, quinquagesies. c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 4064 In hor company come clene shippes fyfté. a1561 G. Cavendish Metrical Visions (1980) 44 This ffyvetie or threscore yere. 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost iv. iii. 241 A witherd Hermight fiuescore winters worne, Might shake off fiftie, looking in her eye. 1611 Bible (King James) Gen. ix. 28 And Noah liued after the flood, three hundred and fifty yeeres. View more context for this quotation 1683 in Pennsylvania Arch. (1852) I. 57 To secure the Paeyment of fivety pounds of like money. 1777 W. Robertson Hist. Amer. (1783) II. 377 Near the fifty-third degree of latitude. 1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess v. 109 Some fifty on a side. 1878 J. Morley Carlyle in Crit. Misc. 1st Ser. 199 The disruption of the French monarchy fifty years afterwards. b. Used indefinitely as a large number. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > mathematical number or quantity > [adjective] > with respect to size smallc1400 long1712 numerical1812 fifty1819 normed1935 significant1962 1819 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto I cviii. 57 When people say, ‘I've told you fifty times’, They mean to scold. 1870 C. Kingsley in Good Words 204/1 A merchant..who had fifty things to tell us of his own special business. †c. = fiftieth adj. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eleven to ninety-nine > [adjective] > fifty > fiftieth fiftiethc1000 fifty1539 1539 C. Tunstall Serm. Palme Sondaye (1823) 58 Expoundynge the gospel of John in the fyfty treaty. 1578 T. Tymme tr. J. Calvin Comm. Genesis 156 As we may read in the fiftie Psalme. B. n. 1. A set of fifty persons or things. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eleven to ninety-nine > [noun] > set of fifty fiftyc1000 quinquagenea1538 c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Mark (Corpus Cambr.) vi. 40 Hi þa sæton hundredon & fiftigon. c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Luke ix. 14 Make hem to sitte to mete by feestis, fyftyes. 1611 Bible (King James) 2 Kings i. 13 Hee sent againe a captaine of the third fiftie, with his fiftie. View more context for this quotation 1611 Bible (King James) 1 Macc. iii. 55 Iudas ordained..captains..ouer fifties, and ouer tennes. View more context for this quotation 1845 J. Lingard Hist. & Antiq. Anglo-Saxon Church (ed. 3) II. ix. 71 ‘Every deacon read two passions..and each of God's servants (the inferior members of the brotherhood) two fifties’ (fifty psalms). 1894 Times 23 Feb. 8/4 The price rose by fifties to £3,450. 2. a. The age of fifty years. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > age > [noun] > specific age yearOE scorea1400 seventeena1568 threescorea1616 jubileea1640 military age1656 legal age1658 tecnogoniaa1676 sixty1717 forty1732 fifty1738 seven-year-old1762 teen1789 septuagenarianism1824 sexagenarianism1824 day-old1831 seventeen-year-old1858 centenarianism1863 roaring forties1867 twenties1874 leaving age1875 school-leaving age1881 octogenarianism1883 reading age1906 three1909 teenage1912 eleven-plus1937 1738 A. Pope 7th Epist. 1st Bk. Horace in Wks. II. ii. 73 Near fifty, and without a Wife. 1855 Ld. Tennyson Maud vi. v, in Maud & Other Poems 26 Ah, what shall I be at fifty Should Nature keep me alive? b. the fifties: the years between fifty and sixty in a particular century or in one's life. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > year > [noun] > period of specific number of years > decade > specific decade in a century or person's life seventies1845 nineties1871 twenties1874 the fifties1880 the thirties1880 the forties1885 sixties1964 zeros1989 1880 R. Broughton Second Thoughts II. iii. iv. 157 I know that I am somewhere in the fifties, and that I was born on a Monday. 1889 R. B. Anderson tr. V. Rydberg Teutonic Mythol. 9 A series of works published in the fifties and sixties. †3. A fifty-gun ship. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > war vessel > [noun] > vessel carrying certain number of guns > twenty or more ship of post1731 post ship1747 seventy-four1777 fifty1778 forty-four1821 1778 E. Burke Corr. (1844) II. 249 Two ships of the line, two fifties, and about four lesser frigates. 1799 Naval Chron. 1 292 Ships of the line 188, Fifties 27. Compounds C1. General attributive. a. fifty-fold adj. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eleven to ninety-nine > [adverb] > fifty times as much fifty-folda1616 c1000 Ælfric Gram. (Z.) 285 Quinquagenarius, fiftigfeald. a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) i. ii. 61 Till the worst of all follow him laughing to his graue, fifty-fold a Cuckold. View more context for this quotation 1872 R. A. Proctor Ess. Astron. xi. 156 Exceeding fiftyfold the volume of the Sun. b. fifty-gun-ship adj. ΚΠ 1806 A. Duncan Life Nelson 58 Ten sail of the line, and a fifty-gun-ship. 1832 F. Marryat Newton Forster I. xiii. 187 A fifty-gun ship, frigate, and two corvettes, made their appearance. C2. fifty-pence piece n. a cupro-nickel heptagonal coin worth fifty (new) pence, introduced in the U.K. in 1969 during the conversion to decimal currency. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > English coins > [noun] > other miscellaneous English coins baselinga1255 scute1472 basel1577 lundress1695 halfling1819 wire money1837 brabant1840 fifty-pence piece1969 twenty-pence piece1981 1969 Economist 18 Oct. 87/2 From this week the new 50p piece will gradually start replacing the old brown 10s notes. 1979 Washington Post 10 July a17/6 The British 50-pence piece has seven sides and is unambiguous. 1986 R. Rendell Live Flesh ii. 24 The room heater could be made to function by the insertion of twenty-pence pieces and the water heater fifty-pence pieces. fifty-penny piece n. ΚΠ 1970 O. Norton Dead on Prediction ii. 34 The fifty-penny pieces still didn't look worth ten shillings to me. fifty-per-cent adj. usurious. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > financial dealings > moneylending > [adjective] > relating to or characterized by usury > characteristic of usurer Lombardinian1602 usurious1727 fifty-per-cent1825 1825 A. Knapp & W. Baldwin Newgate Cal. III. 496/1 No trades~man of a fifty per cent. conscience. fifty-six n. dialect and U.S. a fifty-six pound weight. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement by weighing > equipment for weighing > [noun] > a weight > weighing specific amount stone-weight1552 stone1556 poundstone1577 pound-weight1765 fifty-sixa1800 a1800 Spirit of Farmers' Museum (1801) 176 He had no notion of hanging a fifty-six to his chin, for the sake of lengthening his face to the taste of a wilful audience. 1886 W. Somerset Word-bk. Vifty-six,..a weight of 56 lbs.—the usual name for a half-hundredweight stone. fifty-weight n. half a hundredweight. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement by weighing > [noun] > unit or denomination of weight > hundredweight > half of hundredweight fifty gross1764 fifty-weight1840 ?1677 S. Primatt City & Covntry Purchaser & Builder 105 Nine hundred and fifty weight of Lead taken up in Ledges and Gutters. 1840 W. S. Mayo Kaloolah 140 Packing on my back about fifty weight of iron bolts. Draft additions 1993 fifty-year rule n. a rule that public records should normally be open to inspection after a lapse of fifty years from their compilation (superseded in the U.K. from 1968 by the thirty-year rule: see thirty adj. and n. Compounds 2). ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > written record > historical record or chronicle > [noun] > specific rule applying to historical records fifty-year rule1959 1912 1st Rep. Royal Comm. Public Rec. 51 in Parl. Papers 1912–13 (Cd. 6361) I. 13 The following improvements are..considered desirable... Throwing all Departmental Records open to public inspection down to 1837, and all other Public Records after 50 years from their date, without exception in either case.] 1959 Encounter Aug. 41/1 The ‘fifty-year rule’ which the archivists of the most enlightened countries claim to observe is a rule of rough-and-ready nature. 1966 Times 11 Aug. 13/2 Mr. Luard..asked the Prime Minister for a further statement about the relaxation of the 50-year rule governing the opening to public inspection of Cabinet and other official documents. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.OE
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