单词 | power system |
释义 | > as lemmaspower system power system n. a system of government, management, etc.; a set of political beliefs or institutions founded or dependent upon coercion; society as organized so as to privilege certain groups. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > oppression > [noun] > oppressive regime power system1868 1868 Times 26 Oct. 6/6 Instead of having one general manager, a council of three should be appointed... This plan..would be an improvement on the ‘one man power system’ so popular in America. 1920 Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 30 156 But the power-system, with its disadvantages, is itself the out-growth of the chronic individualism and laissez faire attitude of the American scholar. 1943 J. S. Huxley Evol. Ethics vii. 59 A naked power-system cannot tolerate tolerance or face even intellectual opposition. 1970 C. Furtado in I. L. Horowitz Masses in Lat. Amer. ii. 46 Allowing the landlord class to augment its share in aggregate income and to consolidate its position in the power system. 1990 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 31 May 21/1 The word ‘woman’ seems to mean, for many feminists, ‘person oppressed by a male power system’. < as lemmas |
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