| 单词 | pledge week |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspledge week pledge week n. North American a week during which people are encouraged to make a pledge to donate to charity, confirm a pledge to join a fraternity, etc. ΚΠ 1917 Washington Post 29 Oct. 2/5 (headline) Wilson calls on all families to conserve food supply. 500,000 pushing pledge week. 1930 N.Y. Times 21 Dec. e7/3 The ever-growing dissatisfaction over rushing systems and the underhand activities of pledge week may be a sign of the waning of the fraternity system. 1986 W. W. Powell & R. J. Friedkin in P. J. DiMaggio Nonprofit Enterprise in Arts xi. 252 Connecticut Public Television recently conducted a pledge week with a ‘soft sell’ campaign. 2004 Rocky Mountain News (Denver) (Nexis) 29 Sept. 4 a Aside from moving pledge week, [he] did not announce any new initiatives to combat sexual harassment or alcohol abuse. < as lemmas |
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