单词 | hothousing |
释义 | hothousingn. The action of cultivating plants in a hothouse. Also figurative and in figurative contexts: the encouragement of (artificially) rapid growth or development, esp. the provision of intensive education or training. Cf. hothouse n. 3b. ΚΠ 1833 Examiner 21 July 449/2 Hot-housing and the manure of Mammon. 1842 North of Eng. Mag. Feb. 58 Four shillings out of the consumers' payment per bottle..is to go to support the new trade of hot-housing. 1924 W. F. Dearborn in M. V. O'Shea Child iv. 85 Some of our much heralded prodigies, who have rather petered out in later years, may prove to have maintained their relative superiority for a few years because of early maturing, supplemented by a kind of hot-housing. 1930 N.Y. Times 8 Jan. 14/3 The hot-housing of sugar in the Philippines at the expense of the United States and Cuba may force us to defend those islands by greatly increasing the size of our navy. 1985 N.Y. Times 4 Nov. b11/2 ‘Hothousing’..was the focus of a conference..on the early educational stimulation of infants and toddlers. 1991 Vancouver Sun (Nexis) 19 Dec. d 11 The new economic order is such that it just won't stand the hothousing (the Soviet Union) used to do with its athletes. 2003 Scotsman (Nexis) 22 Nov. 13 (headline) Experiments in hothousing. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1833 |
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