| 单词 | traffic taker |
| 释义 | > as lemmastraffic taker traffic taker n. now historical a person employed to record the amount of traffic on a particular route, or to estimate the potential traffic of a proposed route, typically as a means of assessing or forecasting revenue.Chiefly in the context of railway transportation; cf. sense 8a. ΚΠ 1837 Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock & Ayr Railway Bill: Minutes of Evid. 110 in Sessional Papers House of Lords (H.L. 146.1) XVIII. 1 I furnished them regularly with the Duplicates of the Traffic-takers. 1988 P. S. Bagwell Transport Revol. 1770–1985 (2003) iv. 82 These were the days of the ‘traffic takers’, employed by the promoters of new railways, to discover the potential traffic of the district through which the intended line would pass. 2010 Financial Times (Nexis) 12 Apr. 32 The Victorian traffic-takers turned out to be no more independent than Wall Street analysts of the internet age. < as lemmas |
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