单词
naming and shaming
释义
naming and shamingnoun[U]uk
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theactivityof sayingpubliclythat aperson,company, etc. hasbehavedin abadorillegalway:Hereadilybackedthenamingandshamingofunderperformingschools.anamingandshamingpolicy/campaign/approach(Definition ofnaming and shamingfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary? Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofnaming and shaming
naming and shamingThese included mandatory lockouts, plastic cups and thenamingandshamingof the most violent venues.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.At the same time, an approach tonamingandshaminghas succeeded only in highlighting the failures and negative effects of non-aid policies.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In the above extract, a 'namingandshaming' modality is employed by the editor, with a third authority lending weight to the newspaper's argument.From theCambridge English CorpusI am not sure that a discussion involvingnamingandshaminggets the balance right.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0The thing that has been most distressing has been the virtual 'namingandshaming' of vegetables and then declaring them not guilty.FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - EnglishHe used the extremely efficient method ofnamingandshaming, and quite rightly so.FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - EnglishWe are afraid of having a 'witch-hunt' whennamingandshamingis carried out.FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - EnglishWe should then create a blacklist of these companies, serving as a reference based on the principle of 'namingandshaming'.FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - EnglishThere must be a system ofnamingandshamingfor those businesses that are careless.FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - EnglishWe cannot therefore make use ofnamingandshamingand worst practices.FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - EnglishThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/naming-and-shaming##
