单词 | want-creating |
释义 | > as lemmaswant-creating want-creating adj. (a) that causes poverty (obsolete); (b) that creates desires, esp. for consumer products. ΚΠ 1826 P. G. Patmore Rejected Articles 63 You would, in a month from the time you set foot in this want-creating city, have ten times as many to supply as you now have. 1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 651 The manifold, want-creating culture of modern European civilisation and education. 1969 P. Kilby Industrialization in Open Econ. iv. vii. 220 Want-creating advertisements. 2001 R. Zucker Democratic Distributive Justice x. 197 There was considerable ingenuity and taste in the product features, and these had a want creating effect. < as lemmas |
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