| 释义 |
expressman|ɛkˈsprɛsmən|
[f. express n.1 3 + man.]
A man employed in receiving and delivering parcels, etc.; esp. an employee of one of the U.S. express companies.
1847H. D. Thoreau Let. in Atlantic Monthly (1892) LXIX. 744 Munroe..tells the expressman that all is right. 1858Homans Cycl. Comm. 644 The ‘expressman’ is only an improvement upon the ‘common carrier’. 1884A. Wainwright in Harper's Mag. July 270/1 We stand in a crowd of..hack-drivers and expressmen on the New York side. 1889Farmer Americanisms 229/2 William F. Harnden was the first expressman, and he began his business in 1837. |