| 单词 | q store |
| 释义 | > as lemmasQ store g. British. Military. In form Q (without point). = quartermaster n., quartermaster general n., or quartermaster sergeant n. at quartermaster n. Compounds; (hence, in elliptical use) the quartermaster's or quartermaster-general's department. Frequently attributive, as Q branch, Q store, etc. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > branch of army > [noun] > administration and supply branches baggage1603 field train1692 Corps of Wagoners1802 wagon-corps1810 subsistence department1820 baggage-train1841 rear echelon1852 Control Department1867 Army Service Corps1869 A.S.C.1871 pay corps1876 Q1916 echelon1922 society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > officer according to function > [noun] > quartermaster quartermaster1590 fourrier1678 Q.M.1791 quartermaster captain1846 Q1916 quarter1917 quarter-bloke1918 quarter jack1930 1916 G. Frankau Poet. Wks. (1923) I. 223 And the Boche shells; and ‘Q.’ still issues bromo. 1918 Punch 2 Jan. 15/2 Military experts will tell you that this is a ‘Q.’ war, meaning thereby that the Quartermaster-General's department is the one which matters. 1919 W. S. Churchill in M. Gilbert Winston S. Churchill (1977) IV. Compan. i. 456 Another inroad on ‘Q’ should it seems to me be made by transferring all discipline to the Adjutant General. 1942 W. S. Churchill Second World War (1951) IV. i. xx. 311 The arrangements for bringing off the wounded would alone open up a vista of Q problems. 1990 A. Beevor Inside Brit. Army xxv. 303 The old term, Q or Q Branch, was a reference to the Quartermaster General's empire. 2002 P. Anderson When Scorpion Stings vi. 124 Immediately across the road from the cavalry lines were the LAD workshop and the unit's Q store. < as lemmas |
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