hothousing
/ˈhɑtˌhaʊzɪŋ/
noun
- The practice of raising plants in a hothouse.
- Hothousing allows farmers to grow crops out of season.
- The greenhouse specializes in the hothousing of tropical plants.
- Modern hothousing uses advanced climate control systems.
- The practice of raising or training someone, especially a child, in a very sheltered, intense, or accelerated way to achieve quick development.
- Critics argue that hothousing can cause stress and burnout in children.
- Some parents believe in hothousing their children to get them into top schools.
- The school's hothousing program produced several young prodigies.
Synonyms
verb
- Present participle of hothouse: to raise or develop in a hothouse; to grow plants in a heated glass building.
- We spent the weekend hothousing the seedlings in the backyard greenhouse.
- The nursery is hothousing hundreds of tomato plants for local markets.
- They are hothousing the new hybrid roses for the spring show.
- To raise or train someone in a very sheltered, intense, or accelerated way.
- The company is hothousing its new hires through an intensive boot camp.
- She is hothousing her students with extra lessons and practice tests.
- The coach is hothousing the young swimmers for the national competition.