单词 | check-taker |
释义 | check-takern. An official who takes or collects the checks of admission at a theatre, or other public place, in a railway-train (in U.S.), etc. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > non-manual worker > [noun] > usher or attendant huissierc1330 usherc1386 commissionaire1749 check-taker1812 starter1892 hat-check boy1910 hat-check girl1913 1812 H. Smith & J. Smith Rejected Addr. 117 Hark! the check taker moody silence breaks, And bawling ‘Pit full’, gives the check he takes. 1842 R. H. Barham Lay Old Woman in Ingoldsby Legends 2nd Ser. 265 The Cheque-takers never would let her go through. 1842 C. Dickens Amer. Notes I. iv. 147 The conductor or check-taker, or guard, or whatever he may be, wears no uniform. 1887 Times 1 Nov. 3/6 A check-taker at the Sanger's Theatre. Derivatives ˈcheck-taking adj. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > permission > [adjective] > type of ticket > without a ticket > that collects check-takinga1845 a1845 T. Hood Vauxhall in Compl. Wks. (1884) X. App. 562 The check-taking mortal I pass. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1812 |
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