单词 | per dozen |
释义 | > as lemmasper dozen a. In distributive sense: For each——, for every——. Used after a statement of number or quantity to express a rate or proportion, as per day, per dozen, per head, etc. Also (chiefly U.S.): with omission of following noun (expressed in or understood from the context). Cf. a prep.1 3b, by prep. 24c. ΚΠ a1399 in W. G. Benham Oath Bk. Colchester (1907) 8 (MED) Whyt salt, gret salt, par weye, ij d. a1399 in W. G. Benham Oath Bk. Colchester (1907) 9 Heryng that comth in scheps, be it fresh or powdred, par last iiij d. 1413 in F. A. Page-Turner Bedfordshire Wills (1914) 16 (MED) I pray and chearge..þat on my stynkyng careyne be neiþer laid cloth of gold ne of silke but russet cloþ per ȝerd xv d. 1477 in E. Hobhouse Church-wardens' Accts. (1890) 5 Item the Wardenes have paid for stoff and writtyng of the new legent which is xlvi queyres, pres per queyer iijs. 1511 R. Gibson Accts. (P.R.O. e36.217/21–28) Item bowght by me rechard gybson of past bordes ix per peece. 1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres iii. 54 7 rankes at 2 men per ranke in the fore angles. 1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. xiii. 594/2 Euery one of ech sexe..should pay by the head, or per Pol as they call it, twelue pence. 1663 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders 69 Three shillings per doozen. a1701 H. Maundrell Journey Aleppo to Jerusalem (1703) 66 It is ordinarily fourteen Dollars per head. 1734 Builder's Dict. I. sig. F vijv Their usual Price is from twelve to sixteen Shillings per Hundred. 1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 546 To charge the work at per foot. 1899 G. W. Peck Peck's Uncle Ike iii. 31 Listened to a heavenly choir that is paid a hundred dollars per. 1935 J. N. Chance Wheels in Forest viii. 153 The road is clear at eleven ten, and Lombard is here at eleven nineteen. That's nine minutes; an average of eighty miles per. 1942 P. G. Wodehouse Money in Bank xii. 112 'What's your beef about taking thirty per?'... 'Not so nice as ninety per.' 1959 Engineering 9 Jan. 59/1 A leading American cable company has saved over $1,500 per year. 1976 New Yorker 23 Feb. 28/2 Many of the chain hotels are run by managing directors who have wives who think they are interior decorators and get on the payroll at twenty-five thousand per. 1993 Enroute (Air Canada) Feb. 33/2 Prix-fixe menus start at $45 per person, wine included. < as lemmas |
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