special measures
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.59 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
External administration for a failing public service such as a school or hospital.
British usage
noun
Judicial systems to protect vulnerable witnesses in courts of law.
noun
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see special, measures.
Example Sentences
- "The LEA is required to support schools in special measures or with serious weaknesses."
- "Before the 2005 Schools White Paper, schools put into Special Measures have been aware that they might face closure if they did not improve within about two years."
- "The governments new proposals intend to make the following changes and introductions: [...] Placing underperforming council planning departments into “special measures” and allowing developers to bypass them if they fail to improve."
- "These organisations were put into special measures and their boards placed under high levels of scrutiny around how they were focusing on quality and patient safety issues."
Usage
- British usage