| 单词 | sugar central |
| 释义 | > as lemmassugar central In the Philippines, and Central and South America: a mill for processing cane into raw sugar. More fully sugar central. Also (with capital initials) in the names of such mills. ΚΠ 1889 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Disp. 28 Apr. 20/7 With the exception of the large centrals, the season will be finished with the present month. 1922 Amer. Sugar Bull. 16 July 122/1 Three centrales finished grinding between July 4th and 11th, including Central Baguanos which worked until late in September last year. 1939 Pacific Affairs 12 305 Wages at the Tarlac Central range well above 90 pesos.., some of our higher Filipino employees receiving as much as 450 pesos a month. 1960 S. W. Mintz Worker in Cane ii. 25 These new centrales were very modern..and a symbol of the..changes in Puerto Rican life wrought by the Americans. 1975 Jrnl. Econ. Hist. 35 260 Factory railroads carried the necessary tonnage of cane to these centrals. 2014 Philippine Daily Inquirer (Nexis) 22 Dec. Migrant laborers from Panay..have started..in the cane fields to feed the eight mills..in the province, out of the 28 sugar centrals all over the country. < as lemmas |
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