| 单词 | butty gang |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbutty gang butty gang n. a company of workers contracted to an industrial enterprise who divide the proceeds of their collective labour equally among themselves. ΚΠ 1843 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 6 22/1 The superintendent sets out the works, and sub-lets them to the various gangers and butty gangs. 1881 G. Smith Lett. & Ess. 164 He favoured the butty-gang system, that of letting work to a gang of a dozen men, who divide the pay, allowing something extra to the head of the gang. 1921 Amer. Econ. Rev. 11 247 This butty-gang system as it was operated under Brassey was, of course, not the same as the system that is known by that name and still practiced in some British coal mines. 2005 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 8 Oct. (Books section) 4 Itinerant workers living alongside the track, they worked in ‘butty gangs’, removing vast quantities of earth using just pick, shovel and, occasionally, some dynamite. < as lemmas |
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