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单词 pivotalism
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ˈpivotalism
ˈpivotalism n. now historical and rare the policy of releasing pivotal men from active service before others.
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society > armed hostility > military organization > [noun] > types of organization
volunteerism1844
palikarism1854
territorialism1872
reservery1878
pivotalism1919
squadrism1926
1919 W. S. Churchill in D. Cooper Haig (1936) II. xxvii. 406 Indiscipline and disorganisation would arise in the Army if pivotalism, i.e. favouritism, were to rule in regard to the discharge of men.
1919 Times 4 Mar. 14/2 Pivotalism..affected the morale and cohesion of every platoon in our forces... The Army is divided sharply into two classes, one of which knows it is going to go, and the other that it has got to stay.
1922 Encycl. Brit. XXX. 215/1 Pivotalism..was called ‘favouritism’.
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