| 单词 | factory people |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfactory people factory people n. (a) people who work for a trading post; cf. sense 2a (now historical); (b) factory workers. ΚΠ 1748 Acct. Voy. for Discov. North-west Passage I. 116 The Alarm was sent into the Country for all the Factory People to come Home. 1816 Rep. Minutes of Evid. Select Comm. Children in Manufactories 105 in Parl. Papers (H.C. 397) III. 235 Well-behaved discreet gentlemen, even if they meet the factory people, will..go on the other side of the street to avoid them. 1871 H. B. Stowe Pink & White Tyranny vii. 79 Can you want to..be shut up with a room full of those ill-smelling factory-people? 1913 Revol. in Mexico (U.S. Senate Hearing Subcommittee of Committee Foreign Relations, 62nd Congr. 2nd Sess.) 399 You relied entirely upon the shippers?.. Yes: the Shelton-Payne Co. and the factory... And the factory people? 1994 This Country Canada Winter 59/1 In the 1940s, factory people came to purchase some of these designs. < as lemmas |
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