单词 | roundman |
释义 | roundmann. = roundsman n. (in various senses). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to conditions > [noun] > itinerant labourer roundsman1795 rounder1817 roundman1827 row-man1840 mud-dauber1866 stiff1899 migratory worker1915 migrant worker1923 society > trade and finance > selling > seller > [noun] > commercial traveller rideout1752 rider1752 outrider1762 traveller1790 commercial traveller1807 bagman1808 town traveller1808 commis voyageur1825 roundman1827 drummer1828 travelling salesman1833 bag woman1845 commercial1861 fieldman1875 outride1879 roundsman1884 knight of the road1889 representative1918 sales representative1949 sales rep1959 rep1973 1827 Rep. Select Comm. Labourers Wages 23 in House of Lords Sessional Papers 1801–1833 CCXVII The first I should call the old or roundman's system; it has been the custom in this system for the overseer to send the surplus hands round alternately to the farmers, with an order to pay them a certain sum per week. 1835 Q. Jrnl. Agric. 5 No. 28. 557 It would be his policy and his interest to discard those labourers who were in constant employ upon his farm, to make room for his share of surplus roundmen. 1906 N.Y. Suppl. 99 197 Not until the Greater New York charter went into effect did the assignment of patrolmen to duty as roundmen constitute a promotion. 1999 R. Grubel in E. Furlough & C. Strikwerda Consumers against Capitalism? xi. 312 In the early years, co-op members were served by the ‘roundman’ system in which employees visited homes each morning to take orders, and then delivered them later in the day. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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