英语词汇“beltway bandit”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

Beltway bandit n. slang (also with capital initial in the second element) any of a number of companies, typically located along the Beltway of Washington, D.C., that do a large percentage of their business securing government contracts for companies in the private sector; a federal government contractor.Originally with depreciative connotations of financial greed and self-serving opportunism, though now often used as a neutral descriptive term.In quot. 1967 referring to thieves who steal from houses and apartments alongside the Capital Beltway so as to be able to drive away quickly afterwards.

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1967 Washington Post 14 May b3/2 More cooperation is necessary among area police forces to combat ‘Beltway bandits’ who use high-speed highways to move from suburb to suburb.]

1976 Bennington (Vermont) Banner 30 July 13/3 Around the Pentagon the companies are popularly known as ‘the Beltway Bandits’.

1980 Time 14 Apr. 35/1 Firms in the advising business..have been known as the Beltway Bandits, since so many are clustered along the highway that circles the city [sc. Washington].

1997 Washingtonian (Nexis) Jan. 88 Northern Virginia likes to emphasize that it has acquired all sorts of high-tech companies that are not simply Beltway bandits dependent on Pentagon contracts.

2014 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 21 Oct. (Late ed.) d1 All my ex-flag-officer colleagues work for Beltway bandits.

单词	beltway bandit
释义	> as lemmas Beltway bandit Beltway bandit n. slang (also with capital initial in the second element) any of a number of companies, typically located along the Beltway of Washington, D.C., that do a large percentage of their business securing government contracts for companies in the private sector; a federal government contractor.Originally with depreciative connotations of financial greed and self-serving opportunism, though now often used as a neutral descriptive term.In quot. 1967 referring to thieves who steal from houses and apartments alongside the Capital Beltway so as to be able to drive away quickly afterwards. ΚΠ 1967 Washington Post 14 May b3/2 More cooperation is necessary among area police forces to combat ‘Beltway bandits’ who use high-speed highways to move from suburb to suburb.] 1976 Bennington (Vermont) Banner 30 July 13/3 Around the Pentagon the companies are popularly known as ‘the Beltway Bandits’. 1980 Time 14 Apr. 35/1 Firms in the advising business..have been known as the Beltway Bandits, since so many are clustered along the highway that circles the city [sc. Washington]. 1997 Washingtonian (Nexis) Jan. 88 Northern Virginia likes to emphasize that it has acquired all sorts of high-tech companies that are not simply Beltway bandits dependent on Pentagon contracts. 2014 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 21 Oct. (Late ed.) d1 All my ex-flag-officer colleagues work for Beltway bandits. extracted from beltwayn. < as lemmas
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