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词汇 fly-post
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Definition of fly-post in English:

fly-post

verb
[with object]British
  • Put up (advertising posters) in unauthorized places.

    〈英〉(在未经许可处)张贴(广告)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • During the 100-day challenge, campaigners are tackling litter, fly-posting, graffiti, environmental crime and taking legal action against people who foul and pollute the environment.
    • Even the CCTV cameras in the town have been fly-posted.
    • Organisations accredited by chief constables - which are thought to include private security guards - will be able to issue fines for offences such as fly-posting and graffiti.
    • The claims go against some of the opponents to the Coppergate Riverside scheme who recently fly-posted empty shops, claiming 150 were already standing empty.
    • Mr Bayley's offices in Holgate Road have twice been targeted by fly-posting protesters, firstly last month, and then earlier this month.
    • If it's fly-posting they object to, then it's part of an old tradition.
    • Gander is also showing a large wall work made up of numerous pieces of paper stuck together, which might be some sort of commentary upon fly-posting as a metaphor for the human condition.
    • Litter, fly-posting and graffiti will be tackled in the 100 Days campaign, which started on January 12.
    • On-the-spot fines will be introduced for minor offences, such as dropping litter or chewing gum, graffiti and fly-posting.
    • A recent survey showed Manchester had Britain's most fly-posted street.
    • Major initiatives have already been announced to tackle graffiti, fly-posting and fly-tipping.
    • City of York Council has been handed new powers to clampdown on dog-fouling, graffiti, litter, fly-posting and night-time noise.
    • The secret organisation has fly-posted stickers on billboards and bus stops in the city centre with an ‘Up Yours’ message to the town hall blitz on litter louts and other environmental offenders.
    • The Government's Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Bill would give parish councils the powers to issue fixed penalty notices for litter, dog control, graffiti and fly-posting.
    • The campaign, Challenge Manchester, has 76 days to run, but has already had a marked impact thanks to high-profile blitzes on litter, graffiti, fly-tipping and fly-posting.
    • But I get very frustrated by people who do not care about it and cause problems with litter, graffiti and fly-posting.
    • Now those who put their bins out too early, fly-tip, fly-post and refuse to clean up after their dogs can expect to feel the council's wrath.
    • ‘Graffiti, fly-posting and general litter are a menace that can make people think no-one cares about their neighbourhood,’ he said.
    • The team will begin by removing graffiti and fly-posting from council property across the borough but if it is successful, the scheme could, in time, be extended to cover private properties.
    • Soon the team's powers will be extended to include graffiti, vandalism, abandoned vehicles and fly-posting.

Derivatives

  • fly poster

  • noun
    British
    • 1An advertising poster put up in an unauthorized place.

      〈英〉(在未经许可处)张贴(广告)

      Some councils have gone even further to rid their boroughs of unwanted fly posters.
      Has the spirit of Christmas become a bill-board over which commerce pastes a fresh fly poster each year?
      Companies putting up fly posters advertising events are finding large "cancelled" notices stuck over them.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Not far from our Walmgate offices, on the corner with St Denys Road, is the unofficial fly-poster capital of York.
      • Piccadilly House, thought to have been last used as an electrical goods shop, has been derelict for some time, and is covered in fly-posters.
      • A raunchy nightclub fly-poster depicting a scantily clad woman in a nun's head dress was today branded ‘offensive’ and ‘very sad’ by the Catholic Church.
      • Litter and dog bins, fly-tipping, graffiti, fly-posters and abandoned cars are all the responsibility of the service.
      • The 100-day campaign started on January 12 and has targeted everything from fly-tippers and dirty waterways to graffiti and fly-posters.
      • State Street's flowers and trees remain un-vandalised, vertical surfaces aren't covered in fly-posters and graffiti, traffic glides around calmly.
      • The scrutiny board also wants the council to get tough with businesses that generate litter, cracking down on flyers and fly-posters which end up as litter and stopping commercial refuse piling up in streets.
      • If anything, he said, the fact the venue wasn't being used for anything else had made it easier for the World Snooker team to prepare, once they had gone round and picked up all the old fly-posters.
      Synonyms
      poster, advertisement, public notice, announcement
    • 2A person who fly-posts.

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Firms that use fly-posters to advertise in Manchester have been named and shamed by environmentalists.
      • We are fighting back against the litter louts, the illegal fly-tippers and fly-posters and the vandals who deface the city with graffiti.
      • They branded the council's zero tolerance policy over fly-posters as bureaucracy gone mad after nearly all their signs for the popular market were removed.
      • Since then wardens have been handing out fixed fines for littering and fly-posters have been warned they will be taken to court and could be hit with anti-social behaviour orders.

Origin

Early 20th century: from on the fly at fly1.

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