单词 | army agent |
释义 | > as lemmasarmy agent c. Designating a person working on behalf of, in connection with, or in business for, the army, as army agent, army broker, army clothier, army contractor, etc. ΚΠ 1766 Court & City Kalendar (ed. 3) (title page) Added to this Edition, Lists of Navy Chaplains and Army Agents. 1789 Fortescue 240 I proceeded to an army broker, and soon agreed upon the price of your promotion. 1802 J. Orrok Lett. (1927) 15 Mr. Carstairs, the Army Agent, wanted a young Man a Clerk in his Office. 1817 S. T. Coleridge Biogr. Lit. 242 Whose father had made a large fortune..as an army-contractor. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 547 He had become an army clothier. 1870 Pall Mall Gaz. 19 Oct. 11 Accompanied by an army-furnisher. 1914 T. H. Russell Great War Europe vii. 114 There were wagons filled with army cobblers..who were mending soldiers' shoes. 1983 J. Varley Millennium i. 11 An aeronautical engineer..got his start..because the Army recruiter rejected him. 1993 Dict. National Biogr.: Missing Persons 424/1 His importance lies in his combined role as army agent, official correspondent, and parliamentary licenser of newsbooks and pamphlets. 2013 Washington Post (Nexis) 30 June c1 Army contractors are now measuring the potential health risk of exposure to high levels of arsenic. < as lemmas |
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