单词 | factor merchant |
释义 | > as lemmasfactor merchant C1. General attributive and appositive (in sense 1), as factor merchant, etc. ΚΠ 1710 Ld. Shaftesbury Soliloquy 145 Certain Merchant-Adventurers in the Letter-Trade, who in Correspondence with their Factor-Bookseller, are enter'd into a notable Commerce with the World. 1778 West India Merchant xx. 155 The profits we received by so many of the rich planters and their factor merchants. 1858 H. Vaughan Addr. River Usk Pref. 18 The factour~wind from far shall bring The odours of the scattered spring. 1880 R. Browning Clive in Dramatic Idyls 91 This fell in my factor-days. 1907 Hearings before Comm. on Interoceanic Canals (U.S. Senate, 59th Congr., 2nd Sess. I. 535 When Secretary Taft's statement was made about our being in the factor business. 1997 D. H. Whittaker Small Firms in Japanese Econ. ii. 25 Small-scale production in the Meiji period was frequently organised by tonya factor-merchants. 2001 N. Budgell Newfoundland Son viii. 72 My objective was to walk to Rigolet, a Hudson Bay Post at the mouth of the Hamilton inlet,..where my uncle George Budgell was Factor Manager. < as lemmas |
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