| 单词 | company house |
| 释义 | > as lemmascompany house company house n. (a) British a lodging house; (also euphemistic) a brothel (now rare); (b) a house owned or maintained by a company for the use of employees. ΚΠ 1828 Examiner 13 Jan. 25/2 He produced an agreement of rather a curious kind, which had been drawn up between the women. It stated, that they should keep the house in question as a ‘company house’. 1839 Dublin Rev. Nov. 480 The number of brothels is calculated from 4,000 to 5,000, some of which are termed ‘company houses’. 1875 Glasgow Herald 20 Jan. 4/5 They preferred fixed occupancy, even with all its disadvantages, to the uncertain tenure of the company houses. 1920 Manch. Guardian 20 Apr. 7/6 Taking into account the rate of exchange..this brings Monte Carlo hotel rates, for English visitors.., down to the level of a Blackpool company-house. 1947 Life 9 June 23/2 Most Ruhr miners live in company houses, nice houses, for which the miners must pay rents to their companies. 2008 D. Courtney Nine Lives xvi. 174 I took a room in one of the company houses. < as lemmas |
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