词汇 | talking-shop |
释义 | talking shop noun[ S ] UKdisapprovingukus an organization or a place where discussion is the main activity, but no decisions or actions are taken: The forum could end up as just another talking shop, with no firm programme or financial backing being agreed. Examples of talking shoptalking shop They spent a lot of time together, talkingshop and drinking. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. It aimed to provide a talkingshop for representatives of all aspects of the publishing world to discuss issues at the forefront of copyright protection and enforcement globally today. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. If it is not, the agency will just be yet another worthless and costly talkingshop. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English This group will not be a talkingshop. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English Perhaps the committee will be merely an empty talkingshop and we are setting up an empty consultative body. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There should be a legislative move rather than simply the massive, protracted talkingshop that is getting us nowhere. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Why do we have to turn discussion of these residuary matters into a great big talkingshop? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The council will become not only a talkingshop but a discontented talkingshop. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It must not be a talkingshop or an excuse for delaying action. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These 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. |
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