| 单词 | customer work |
| 释义 | > as lemmascustomer work customer work n. †(a) Scottish weaving done to order for a private or individual customer as opposed to a factory, wholesaler, etc.; cf. work n. 17b (obsolete (historical in later use)); (b) (more generally) work done for customers; cf. custom work n. at custom n. and adj. Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1825 R. Chambers Illustr. Author of Waverley (ed. 2) vii. 193 The world was to the weaver all a desart, wherein only one resting-place existed—customer-wark! 1825 R. Chambers Illustr. Author of Waverley (ed. 2) vii. 194 Yet canty the wabster, and blyth as a lark, Whene'er he gets what he ca's customer-wark! 1832 Chambers' Edinb. Jrnl. 29 Sept. 277/1 When customer work failed, he was fain to work a piece upon speculation. 1886 T. Craig-Brown Hist. Selkirkshire II. 179 There was no factory of any consequence in the town, the weavers for the most part living in poor houses of their own, earning a precarious living from what was called ‘customer wark’. 1932 Econ. Jrnl. 42 596 Some of the new developments (e.g. sewing-machines, and domestic plumbing) actually tended to give fresh life to customer-work. 1977 Interfaces 7 13 The Maintenance Branch of Air Canada performs a substantial amount of customer work that generates revenue in the order of $15 Million annually. 2010 Financial Times 24 May 20/6 Because there is simply not enough customer work, our ‘utilisation’ rates makes us non-competitive and we have to reshape how we deliver that work. < as lemmas |
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