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Tkacka15 Posted 8 years ago
Vocabulary

Does have form for appointing

"Then Theresa May does have form for appointing people with no obvious credentials to big jobs."

(The Guardian.)

Does does have form for appointing... mean "to have and enjoy a notoriety for being prone to appoint people with no obvious credentials to big jobs" in the sentence above?

  

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Correct, it means she has a reputation / track record of doing so.

— Blue mango 614

  • Correct, it means she has a reputation / track record of doing so.
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Correct, it means she has a reputation / track record of doing so.
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I interpret this as: "May has continually appointed people with no obvious credentials to big jobs. So the speaker is being sarcastic here, saying she does this so often she might as well have a (the article is apparently dropped in British usage) standard form for it."

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