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单词 abortion mill
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abortion mill
12. Chiefly North American (depreciative). An institution that provides education, medical treatment, or other service on an intensive basis, primarily for profit. Usually with modifying word, as abortion mill, diploma mill, Medicaid mill, puppy mill, etc.
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1900 G. Ade Fables in Slang 93 One morning a Modern Solomon, who had been chosen to preside as Judge in a Divorce Mill, climbed to his Perch and unbuttoned his Vest for the Wearisome Grind.
1923 Congress. Rec. 12 Dec. 241/2 If the United States mails have been used by self-styled medical institutions and organizations known popularly as ‘diploma mills’ for purposes of fraud in connection with the sale of degrees or diplomas.
1936 Jrnl. Higher Educ. 7 157 A ‘diploma mill’ in Ohio was deprived of its charter in 1900, when investigation..disclosed that the president had sold M.A. degrees for $25 each.
1949 S. Kingsley Detective Story i. 50 You're still running that abortion mill, aren't you?
1962 Pacific Affairs 35 117 These much-maligned ‘diploma mills’..have taken the brunt of expansion, relieving pressure on the State University of the Philippines.
1975 Time 26 May 55/2 Many of the ‘Medicaid mills’ set up to handle poor patients in the nation's urban ghettos reap enormous profits by such practices as ‘Ping Ponging’ (passing a patient along to all the other doctors in the clinic).
1980 Christian Sci. Monitor (Nexis) 9 Apr. 14 Some shops get animals from reputable local breeders, but others buy their dogs from ‘puppy mills’, wholesale factories where dogs are confined to cages and denied exercise and companionship.
1991 Ladies' Home Jrnl. Oct. 108/2 Experts blame some misdiagnoses on poor-quality labs, called ‘mills’.
1994 Boston Globe 16 Oct. (Mag. section) 6/1 Mary Jane Ward's 1946 book, ‘The Snake Pit’, depicted unscrupulous psychiatrists at state ‘shock mills’ using ‘little black boxes’ to jolt patients lined up on beds—the doctors earning fat fees in the process.
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