forcing house

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A place where plants are forced into maturity sooner than would naturally happen.
  2. Any place that promotes early development. figuratively
    — Princeton University, forcing house for leaders of the Presbyterian Awakening, was a ready source of morale-boosting sermons and literature, and its Scottish President, John Witherspoon, was a leading figure in the Continental Congress through the revolutionary years.

词形变化

forcing houses plural
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