forcing house
- noun
- UK
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casa de impulso
- The art school acted as a forcing house for the country's best young talent.
Examples
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The university became a forcing house for innovation in science and technology.
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During the Renaissance, Florence was a forcing house of new artistic techniques.
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The new art studio has become a forcing house for young talent.
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Many writers find that a forcing house can inspire their creativity.
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During the Renaissance, Florence was a forcing house of new artistic techniques.
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The art school acted as a forcing house for the country's best young talent.
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The university became a forcing house for innovation in science and technology.
Synonyms
An intense environment that pushes people or projects to develop very quickly
Antonyms
How Stimulating
Surface Forms
Morphology
forcing + house
The element 'house' clearly signals a place or organization, and the form 'forcing' suggests causing or promoting, so a learner could partially infer 'a place that promotes or accelerates something.' However, 'forcing' as a noun modifier in this institutional/metaphorical sense is uncommon and not fully predictable from basic word knowledge (and the input even lacks a dictionary gloss), so the specific nuance of rapid development in creative/intellectual fields may not be obvious to a B1 learner without exposure. This yields a partially transparent, but not fully compositional, interpretation.
Etymology
Forcing house was originally a gardener's warm house where people 'forced' plants to grow early by giving them heat. Because that room made plants develop faster, people now call any place that brings ideas or talent to life quickly a forcing house.