| 单词 | call-book |
| 释义 | > as lemmascall-book call-book n. †(a) a book containing a list of names, esp. those of the sailors in a ship's company (obsolete); (b) a book kept by a trade union in which the details of those offering and those seeking employment are recorded (now historical); (c) a book in which radio call signs are recorded. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > list > [noun] > list of names or people > for checking presence name bookeOE roll1593 check-roll1599 call-book1663 band-roll1693 1663 S. Pepys Diary 15 Jan. (1971) IV. 15 To examine the proof of our new way of the Call-bookes. 1803 Naval Chron. 15 57 Are copies of the muster or call book sent to the Navy Board? 1865 Printers' Jrnl. 16 Jan. 13/1 To depend habitually upon the stray jobs obtainable from the call-book is but another name for slow starvation. 1893 Board of Trade, Labour Dept.: Rep. Unemployed 46 in Parl. Papers 1892–3 (C. 7182) LXXXII. 377 Call books are kept at the lodge-house for members out of work to sign. 1921 Youth's Compan. 29 Dec. 743/4 He looked in his call book; it was the destroyer G. 1994 J. Burnett Idle Hands iii. 113 The tramp was given..information about local jobs from the ‘call-book’. 2010 T. McCarthy C v. 64 Serge used to answer all CQs, noting each station's details in his call-book. < as lemmas |
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