单词 | trippage |
释义 | trippagen. The act or process of making a series of short journeys over the same route; the number of such journeys made. ΘΚΠ society > travel > [noun] > travelling to and fro running?1764 peripatetics1769 travel1784 the trots1936 shuttling1937 trippage1941 1941 Sun (Baltimore) 16 Oct. 7/2 Dairy officials pointed out that the new system would eliminate ‘back trippage of drivers’ and make for ‘straight trippage’. Under the old system, most drivers made early morning deliveries and then, on collection days, repeated the routes to collect the money. The second trip will be eliminated under the daylight delivery system. 1972 Daily Tel. 5 Apr. 19/4 If milk distribution costs are to be stabilised, some means must be found to push up the trippage rate [of milk bottles]. 1979 Daily Tel. 6 Aug. 2/6 The average milk bottle makes 23 trips to and from the dairy and customer before it is lost or broken... Bottles are still used because their high trippage more than offsets other costs. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.1941 |
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