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  • verb Present participle of hothouse.

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Examples

  • Plan to tackle teachers 'hothousing' as students put to the test GROUPS of students could be given different national literacy and numeracy tests to stop teachers from "hothousing" them to score high marks and boost their school's profile.

    AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories 2010

  • Plan to tackle teachers 'hothousing' as students put to the test GROUPS of students could be given different national literacy and numeracy tests to stop teachers from "hothousing" them to score high marks and boost their school's profile.

    AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories 2010

  • Plan to tackle teachers 'hothousing' as students put to the test GROUPS of students could be given different national literacy and numeracy tests to stop teachers from "hothousing" them to score high marks and boost their school's profile.

    Daily Telegraph | Top Stories 2010

  • Plan to tackle teachers 'hothousing' as students put to the test GROUPS of students could be given different national literacy and numeracy tests to stop teachers from "hothousing" them to score high marks and boost their school's profile.

    AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories 2010

  • Long term, it is hoped to place exciting Cambridge start-ups within Plug and Play's three-month 'hothousing' programme in the Valley where they can not only earn substantial seed funding but also gain access to the Valley's elite technology companies and their CEOs and also the top Venture Capital firms.

    Latest stories 2009

  • I'd like to say to a lot of parents I come across: Forget all that nightmarish 'hothousing' advice that clogs up the press, and just pay some attention to your child!

    Are the school summer holidays just too long? 2011

  • According to the BBC, it's about "the transformative power of music in young people's lives", and in it he takes 12 youths aged 17 to 24, matches them up with musical mentors including Soweto Kinch and Cerys Matthews, and after three days of hothousing makes them perform a grand finale at Buckingham Palace in front of Prince Harry.

    The Guardian World News Carole Cadwalladr 2011

  • Spotting David's musical talent early on, they set about hothousing him towards a classical career David used his mother's surname so as not to appear to be trading on the Bongartz name in Germany.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Adam Sweeting 2011

  • For fun and subtle hothousing, I play the world-capitals game with my daughter.

    WN.com - Articles related to No ‘credible’ gov’t action on massacre — Asia HR group 2010

  • But when we also add in the hothousing policy of the new "work-recovery model" pushed by the New Labour Gov't and its Charity advisors, its possible to see that fear and feelings of exposure together with an already poor ability to negotiate with the social system through the mental health system itself, adds up to a new form of exclusion from life .....

    The News is NowPublic.com - NowPublic.com: The News is Now Public 2010

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