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单词 set-aside
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set-asiden.adj.

Etymology: < verbal phrase set aside: compare to set aside (†on side) 1 at set v.1 Phrasal verbs 2, aside adv.
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 28/8Set 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).
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