单词 | rent-collector |
释义 | > as lemmasrent-collector rent-collector n. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > hire or rent > rent (land or real property) > [noun] > rent-collector rent-gatherer1332 kaner1590 taker-upa1649 rent-collector1821 1821 Leeds Mercury 17 Mar. Apply to Mr. Musgrave, Rent-Collector, Duke-Street, who will show the Tenements and treat for the same. 1823 ‘J. Bee’ Slang Rent-collector, a highwayman who robs for money only. 1875 W. S. Hayward Love against World 9 My agent, who employs the same rent collector as he does. 1932 T. S. Eliot Sweeney Agonistes 29 If he was alive then the milkman wasn't and the rent-collector wasn't. 1996 J. Grenfell-Hill Growing up in Wales 164 Everybody came on a Monday: the rent collector, the tally-man..and the insurance man. < as lemmas |
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