| 单词 | milk round |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmilk round milk round n. (a) a fixed route on which milk is regularly collected from farmers or delivered to customers; a milk delivery business covering such routes; (b) = milk run n. (b); (c) colloquial a series of (typically annual) visits to universities and colleges made by business representatives to recruit graduates. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > [noun] > milkman's delivery round milk-walk1805 milk round1865 milk route1874 milk run1909 society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > regular milk round1865 run1893 milk run1909 society > travel > air or space travel > [noun] > a flight through air or space > regular or repeated milk round1865 milk run1909 shuttle flight1944 the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > dairy farming > [noun] > milk round milk round1865 milk route1874 milk run1909 society > occupation and work > working > labour supply > [noun] > seeking an employee headhunting1909 milk round1970 trawl1971 1865 G. A. Sala My Diary in Amer. II. i. 46 For sale, a Milk ‘Round’. That is what we call a ‘walk’. 1900 Oxf. Times 13 Jan. (advt.) Wanted, a single man to serve a milk-round. 1927 R. B. Forrester Fluid Milk Market Eng. & Wales 96 Retail Delivery. Milk Rounds…no close or detailed survey of actual roundsman systems has ever been made in this country. 1945 E. Partridge Dict. R.A.F. Slang 39 Milkround, a run made fairly regularly by a Squadron or a Force, if it returns to its station or base in the early morning. 1952 E. F. Davies Illyrian Venture x. 191 We did a ‘milk-round’ of all the jails in Vienna, picking up and setting down prisoners at every stop. 1970 Times 17 Nov. 19/8 Like other business organisations, we make what is known as the annual milkround, going to every university at the recruiting time. 1972 Guardian 8 Feb. 13/7 Fund-raising must be..centralized, instead of the monthly ‘milk rounds’ by volunteers. 1982 T. Gunn Occasions of Poetry II. 172 My aunts had a milk-round on which I sometimes helped out, serving the milk out of pails. 1993 Computing 21 Oct. 20/1 They first met at Logica in 1975 where Castles was recruited fresh from the milkround with a degree in electronic engineering from Southampton University. < as lemmas |
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