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单词 reserved occupation
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reserved occupation
e. Designating a civilian occupation which is considered to be of sufficient importance that most of those employed in it are exempted from military service, esp. in wartime. Chiefly in reserved occupation. Now historical.
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society > occupation and work > [noun] > regular occupation, trade, or profession > high-priority civilian employment
reserved occupation1915
1915 Local Govt. Board Circular No. R.2 2 A list has been prepared..of still further occupations (to be known as ‘reserved occupations’), to which, in the public interest, from the point of view of the export trade or for other reasons, it is desirable to extend some measure of protection, either because the persons included in them..are engaged in work which could not be interrupted without serious dislocation or because the industries affected are such that it would be unwise to take more men from them without special investigation.
1915 Times 4 Nov. 5/1 Comparatively few recruits asked to be put in the reserved classes.
1944 A. Thirkell Headmistress iv. 79 Her girls wished to go straight into the Forces..while their parents wanted them to..get a job in a reserved occupation.
1972 M. Jones Life on Dole viii. 61 Mining was a reserved occupation, and even young men who wanted to get into uniform found themselves directed to the pits.
1992 M. S. Alexander Republic in Danger (2002) 135 It was the outbreak of war itself that activated controls over men in reserved trades.
2004 B. Richards Secret Flotillas I. xi. 114 He..fretted at being in a reserved civilian occupation and obtained a transfer to the French air force.
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