单词 | pump-priming cash |
释义 | > as lemmaspump-priming cash General attributive, with sense ‘of or relating to pump-priming, used for pump-priming’, as pump-priming activity, pump-priming cash, pump-priming policy, etc. ΚΠ 1934 N.Y. Times 6 Jan. 25/1 With the aid of the government's ‘pump-priming’ activities, I think we are going to see quite an improvement in the next three, four or five months. 1937 F. D. Roosevelt Public Papers & Addr. (1941) VI. 520 The things we had done, which at that time were largely a monetary and pump-priming policy.., had brought the expected result. 1960 Guardian 21 Oct. 24/6 The pump-priming period of the Welfare State. 1961 B. R. Wilson Sects & Society 9 The pump-priming activity of the revivalist to generate a distinctive form of religious expression. 1978 M. Puzo Fools Die xxx. 351 He, Lieverman, would throw in the pump-priming cash, the development money. 1996 Business Week 26 Feb. 48/2 The economy is on track to grow 2% in 1996, but it's being driven primarily by $500 billion in pump-priming measures since 1992. 2001 U.S. News & World Rep. 19 Mar. 64/2 Hundreds of billions of pump-priming dollars in taxpayer money have been poured into public works. < as lemmas |
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