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forcing house

forcing house noun: a place where plants are forced into maturity sooner than would naturally happen.

Noun

forcing house (plural forcing houses)

  1. A place where plants are forced into maturity sooner than would naturally happen.
  2. (figuratively) Any place that promotes early development.
    • 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.2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 763

Forms of forcing house

pluralforcing houses

Questions about forcing house

What does forcing house mean?
Forcing house means a place where plants are forced into maturity sooner than would naturally happen.
What part of speech is forcing house?
Forcing house is a noun.
What is the plural of forcing house?
The plural of forcing house is forcing houses.

Words near forcing house in the dictionary

  1. Forciers
  2. forcing
  3. forcing down someone's throat
  4. forcing function
  5. forcing functions
  6. forcing house
  7. forcing houses
  8. forcing one's way
  9. forcing out
  10. forcing someone's hand
  11. forcing something down someone's throat

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