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語源

flag +‎ pole

発音

• (米国発音, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈflæɡˌpoʊl/

名詞

flagpole (複数形 flagpoles)

1. A tall pole up which one or more flags may be raised and flown.

同意語

• flagstaff

派生語

• run something up the flagpole
• send it up the flagpole and see who salutes

動詞

flagpole (三人称単数 現在形 flagpoles, 現在分詞 flagpoling, 過去形および過去分詞形 flagpoled)

1. (Canada, rare) To exit a country momentarily and reenter, usually in order to satisfy immigration requirements.
   • 2016, Beyhan Farhadi, “Identity and the City: Thinking Through Diversity”, in Jay Pitter, John Lorinc, editor, Subdivided: City-Building in an Age of Hyper-Diversity:

     I understand immigrating to Canada is getting harder and harder. [The difficulty of navigating bureaucracy] might be a way to let people fall between the cracks. I really don't know. The hoops immigrants have to go through, such as flagpoling. And I don't have any political representatives. I didn't vote.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:flagpole.