单词 | preferment-hunter |
释义 | > as lemmaspreferment-hunter preferment-hunter n. ΚΠ 1724 B. Mandeville Modest Def. Publick Stews Pref. sig. A 8 Own, Preferment-Hunter! when sailing on with the Tide avails nothing, does not tacking about steer you sometimes into that snug Harbour, an Employment? a1834 S. T. Coleridge Marginalia (1980) I. 51 The vile Lies of a Preferment-hunter's Flattery. 1845 Ld. Campbell Lives Chancellors III. xcvi. 467 Parasites and preferment-hunters crowded the levee. 2005 History Jan. 32 The presence of ‘great men’ at court gave preferment-hunters and lobbyists a strong motive for showing their faces. < as lemmas |
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