Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Something, such as land or a certain percentage of profits, that is set aside for a specific purpose.
- n. A federal program requiring that a certain percentage of government funds and contracts be reserved for businesses owned by women and members of minority groups.
Wiktionary
- n. something that is set aside for a specific purpose
- n. land that has been taken out of agricultural production to reduce crop surpluses
- adj. that has or have been set aside
- adj. taken out of agricultural production
- adj. reserved or booked in advance
WordNet 3.0
- adj. reserved in advance
Examples
“For nearly a decade after that, it thrived on winning so-called "set-aside" contracts providing computer-systems integration for civilian agencies.”
The Wall Street Journal: Contractors Find Gains Hard to Hold
“One solution would be to remove some allowances from the market to create a shortage, a measure called set-aside.”
“Thanks to President Carter, she became honorary chair of the Federal Council on the Arts and Humanities, where she established herself as a champion of art in public spaces and helped establish a set-aside for arts funding in the construction of new federal buildings.”
“Interesting side note - why didn't the end of the acreage set-aside result in the full increase of 20 million acres that one might expect, rather than just 5?”
Survey of Regulation, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“That's the land they'd put into the government set-aside program, not their prime bottom land.”
Survey of Regulation, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“Replacement of the acreage set-aside program in grain crops (which typically had about 20 million participating acres) with direct price supports has resulted in an increase of about 5 million cultivated grain acres since 1996.”
Survey of Regulation, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“The Small Business Administration has overhauled the rules for its main set-aside contracting program, a reform effort that agency officials said is aimed at reducing fraud and ensuring that money and other benefits flow to the right people.”
The Washington Post: Small Business Administration changes rules for set-aside contracting program
“In 10 case studies, GAO's investigations found that those counterfeit businesses received roughly $100 million in service-disabled, veteran-owned small business sole-source and set-aside contracts, said”
“House panel told of abuses in VA set-aside program”
“In the spirit of reaching feasible solutions that truly alleviate the unemployment crises for Americans, it is time to set-aside our past pre-conceptions and usual ways of proceeding and find compromises for a new vision.”
The Huffington Post: Susan N. Labin, Ph.D.: Reducing Unemployment in the New Year
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collocation constituentsabsorption capacity, absorption rate, acceding country, accession candidate, accession countries, accession country, accession criteria, accession cycle, accession negotia..., accession partner..., accession priorities, accession treaty and 2650 more...
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AGRI - crops/fruits/vegetables
Crops, fruits and vegetables + plant growing terms
agricultural crop, agricultural product, cranberry, mulberry, oil seed crops, protein crops, rain-fed agriculture, set-aside, soft fruit, drainage, cereals, cold storage house and 96 more...
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2. Keywords central to the understanding of the EU (people working for the EU are usually able to give thematic...acceleration, action, additionality, administrator, agenda, agricultural, agri-environmental, agriflation, agri-food, applicant, approach, assent and 1325 more...
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Emission Trading ..., backloading, ETS, carbon price signal, grandfathering, retirement, stand-alone set-a..., set-aside, linear reduction ..., auction time profile, Auctioning Regula..., auctioned emissio... and 12 more...
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AGRI - sugar sector
Terms used in the EU's Common Agricultural Policy referring to policy issues in the sugar sector.
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ecbrenner "A program requiring a percentage of opportunities (as for jobs or funding) to be reserved for an underrepresented group" --Merriam-Webster Unabridged Mar 15, 2009