单词 | mine-owner |
释义 | > as lemmasmine-owner mine-owner n. ΚΠ 1784 Strother's Jrnl. 14 Sept. (1912) (modernized text) ii. 35 Lead..keeps lowering in price, owing to the mine owners endeavouring to undersell one another. 1855 Sci. Amer. 27 Oct. 53/4 Some of our American mines will yet be as deep as those in Europe. When this takes place, we hope our mine owners will not forget to adopt this humane invention. 1991 20th Cent. Brit. Hist. 2 198 Joseph Pease, head of an ‘empire’ comprising banking, coal, iron, railways, and wool, was one of the first mine-owners in north-east England to recognize the miners' union. < as lemmas |
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