| 单词 | factory gate |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfactory gate factory gate n. the gate at the entrance of a factory, (in later use) often with reference to the price of goods at the end of the manufacturing process but before any additional costs or expenses have been added (frequently attributive).In quot. 1685 with reference to a trading post; cf. sense 2a. ΚΠ 1685 N. Waite Let. 16 Sept. in Impartial Vindic. (East India Company) (1688) 34 The English and their Boats returned to the Factory Gate. 1847 Amer. Joe Miller 26 Judge Beeler put a notice over his factory gate at Lowell, ‘No cigars or Irishmen admitted within these walls;’ ‘for,’ said he, ‘the one will set a flame a-goin among my cottons, and t'other among my gals.’ 1929 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. 92 174 The Census of Production..estimated the value of the goods as they finally came into consumption by taking the value at the factory gate and adding an estimate of the services rendered. 1961 Times 22 Dec. 9/7 Since 1938, the British toy industry has increased the worth of toys produced from £500,000 to the present figure of £42m. This is the factory gate price, and does not include purchase tax. 1997 G. Hosking Russia (1998) iv. iv. 410 The local activists..kept in touch with workers as they could, convening the occasional letuchka—an improvised gathering at the factory gate or in a corner of one of the shops. 2004 F. Lawrence Not on Label iii. 98 They now require suppliers to quote them a factory-gate price which excludes the cost of transport and they can then decided whether to collect in their own lorries or not. < as lemmas |
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