单词 | set-aside |
释义 | set-asiden.adj. U.S. A. n. Something set aside; spec. a quantity of commodities, agricultural produce, etc., reserved by governmental order for a special purpose (originally for supplying the military forces.) Also, the action of securing this. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > [noun] > separating from main body > separating for a purpose > that which is reserve1649 set-aside1943 1943 Sun (Baltimore) 16 June 28/8 ‘Set asides’ for the armed forces have increased measurably. 1954 Sun (Baltimore) 21 July b 12/3 One of the foggier sections of the pending overall farm bills would provide for ‘set-asides’ of surplus commodities now held by the Government. The purpose of the set-aside is clear enough, if the method of effecting it is not. 1966 Wall St. Jrnl. 5 Dec. 12/2 The Government ordered drastic increases in defense set-asides on copper during the first half of 1967. 1975 New Yorker 26 May 66/2 A visitor asked Butz, who had become Secretary of Agriculture late in 1971, if as Secretary he would have preferred to limit the ‘set-aside’ of cropland withheld from production in 1972. 1980 Outdoor Life (U.S.) Oct. (Northeast ed.) 47/1 Another may be squeaky clean on wilderness set-aside, for example, but falter badly when it comes down to a sensible attitude on gun control. B. adj. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > [adjective] > separated or cut off from > separated from main body > for a purpose retrait?c1475 reserved1565 set-aside1943 1943 Daily Progress (Charlottesville, Va.) 6 Oct. 3/5 A protest..to the War Food Administration against inclusion of smaller sizes of certain varieties of fruit in the government's ‘set-aside’ order to protect needs for the armed services. 1979 Financial Times 19 Jan. 37/7 There is in addition a ‘set-aside’ programme in the U.S. for both wheat and maize to restrict plantings. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.adj.1943 |
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