英语词汇“rate-buster”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

1. Forming nouns denoting a person who or thing which ‘busts’ or breaks the first element (literally or figuratively), as belly-buster, knuckle-buster, rate-buster, skull-buster, etc.More established compounds of this nature are treated at the first element or as separate entries: see ball-buster n., bronco-buster n., chartbuster n., price buster n. at price n. Compounds 2, etc.

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1835 U.S. Tel. (Washington, D.C.) 21 July The President's encomium upon Governor Wolf is a ‘gall buster’ to the disorganisers.

1897 Gentleman Farmer Feb. 127 We need..a curculio buster, a..potato bug assassinator.

1934 Amer. Speech 9 27/2 (Glossary of prison slang) Skull-buster, a detective.

1938 Boys' Life Oct. 12 Even hundreds of years ago there were atom-busters of a sort, and they called them ‘alchemists’.

1959 Pop. Sci. Mar. 218 Installing a wire hose clamp in tight quarters needn't be a knuckle-buster.

1970 C. Bay Struct. of Freedom ii. 46 Workers who speed up production, or ‘rate busters’ as they are called.

1972 J. Campbell Myths to live By vii. 141 The..carefully programmed sequences of brain-busters.

1992 C. McCarthy All Pretty Horses (1993) i. 31 What did you bring to shoot? said Rawlins. Just Grandad's old thumb-buster.

2006 P. Rusesabagina & T. Zoellner Ordinary Man i. 14 The meal served is always a belly buster.

rate-buster n. slang (originally and chiefly U.S.) a pieceworker whose high productivity causes or threatens to cause a reduction in rates of pay for piecework.

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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to conditions > [noun] > employee > piece-worker > type of

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1908 Ogden (Utah) Standard 16 Nov. 8/2 (headline) Denver rate buster is in Salt Lake City.

1939 F. J. Roethlisberger & W. J. Dickson Managem. & Worker xxii. 522 You should not turn out too much work. If you do, you are a ‘rate buster’.

1997 Accountancy Apr. 87/1 No worker was to be either a ‘rate buster’ or ‘chiseller’—respectively producing too much or too little relative to other group members.

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释义	> as lemmas rate-buster 1. Forming nouns denoting a person who or thing which ‘busts’ or breaks the first element (literally or figuratively), as belly-buster, knuckle-buster, rate-buster, skull-buster, etc.More established compounds of this nature are treated at the first element or as separate entries: see ball-buster n., bronco-buster n., chartbuster n., price buster n. at price n. Compounds 2, etc. ΚΠ 1835 U.S. Tel. (Washington, D.C.) 21 July The President's encomium upon Governor Wolf is a ‘gall buster’ to the disorganisers. 1897 Gentleman Farmer Feb. 127 We need..a curculio buster, a..potato bug assassinator. 1934 Amer. Speech 9 27/2 (Glossary of prison slang) Skull-buster, a detective. 1938 Boys' Life Oct. 12 Even hundreds of years ago there were atom-busters of a sort, and they called them ‘alchemists’. 1959 Pop. Sci. Mar. 218 Installing a wire hose clamp in tight quarters needn't be a knuckle-buster. 1970 C. Bay Struct. of Freedom ii. 46 Workers who speed up production, or ‘rate busters’ as they are called. 1972 J. Campbell Myths to live By vii. 141 The..carefully programmed sequences of brain-busters. 1992 C. McCarthy All Pretty Horses (1993) i. 31 What did you bring to shoot? said Rawlins. Just Grandad's old thumb-buster. 2006 P. Rusesabagina & T. Zoellner Ordinary Man i. 14 The meal served is always a belly buster. extracted from -bustercomb. form rate-buster rate-buster n. slang (originally and chiefly U.S.) a pieceworker whose high productivity causes or threatens to cause a reduction in rates of pay for piecework. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to conditions > [noun] > employee > piece-worker > type of rate-buster1908 1908 Ogden (Utah) Standard 16 Nov. 8/2 (headline) Denver rate buster is in Salt Lake City. 1939 F. J. Roethlisberger & W. J. Dickson Managem. & Worker xxii. 522 You should not turn out too much work. If you do, you are a ‘rate buster’. 1997 Accountancy Apr. 87/1 No worker was to be either a ‘rate buster’ or ‘chiseller’—respectively producing too much or too little relative to other group members. extracted from raten.¹ < as lemmas
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