| 单词 | cost-book company |
| 释义 | > as lemmascost-book company cost-book company n. a partnership formed to operate a mine under the cost-book system. ΚΠ 1848 Morning Post 25 Mar. 3/6 Mr. Hill..moved that the purser be requested to call a monthly meeting of the proprietors resident in Cornwall, to compare the books of the company with the accounts of the merchants (the same as in other cost book companies). 1963 R. J. Forbes Stud. Anc. Technol. VII. iii. 230 This system was the ancestor of the cost-book companies at the Cornish stanneries in the Middle Ages and after. 2014 J. Woodland Money Pits iii. 33 In larger cost book companies such as those of the ‘gold bubble’ period, the management function was undertaken by a committee. < as lemmas |
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