| 单词 | under the umbrella |
| 释义 | > as lemmasunder the umbrella 9. Authority, protection, means of defence; controlling or unifying agency. Frequently in under the umbrella and variants. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > [noun] > afforded by a specific person or thing umberc1380 bannerc1400 safeguard1466 human shield1885 umbrella1948 society > authority > control > [noun] > charge > unifying agency umbrella1948 1948 Hansard Commons 22 Jan. 388 Giving the smaller Powers a chance to evolve, under the umbrella of the Four Powers. 1949 Hansard Commons 24 May 1213 I am not taking away from the occupants of these flats the umbrella which the law intends to give them. 1952 Sun (Baltimore) 15 Feb. (B ed.) 2/6 The big broad budgetary umbrella under which all manner of wasteful sin is committed. 1958 Economist 25 Oct. 297/2 The political division of Germany may become once more a looming casus belli, to be contested by the conventional forces that can regain their freedom of action under the atomic umbrella. 1962 H. O. Beecheno Introd. Business Stud. xi. 93 What they have done is to bring all the operations, or most of them, under the umbrella of one firm and cut out various ‘middlemen’ as separate concerns. 1965 Listener 1 July 7/2 Europe seems unenthusiastic to exchange the American nuclear umbrella for a French one. 1973 E. Bullins Theme is Blackness 7 Theater workers and institutions that presently work from under the Black umbrella. 1976 Howard Jrnl. 15 i. 55 Many of the former approved schools continue in their former practices, albeit under a new umbrella. 1983 Listener 12 May 5/3 The harsh truth is that Sweden is not under the NATO umbrella. < as lemmas |
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