单词 | custom work |
释义 | > as lemmascustom work custom work n. now chiefly North American work done for a private or individual customer (esp. as opposed to factory or wholesale work); work done to order. ΚΠ 1757Custom-Work [see sense B. 1]. 1820 Daily National Intelligencer (Washington) 3 Aug. The subscriber..continues to keep Windsor, York,..and Grecian Chairs; they are custom work, and not for auction. 1836 Blackburn Standard 17 Aug. Any man working at slop trade, shall not on any consideration work on any custom work. 1884 N.Y. Herald 27 Oct. 746 Wanted—tailoress on first class custom work. 1922 H. R. Tolley & L. M. Church Tractors on Southern farms (U.S. Dept. Agric. Farmers' Bull. No. 1278) 13 They did some custom work with their tractors. 1991 New Yorker 16 Dec. 126/1 Everything is made on the premises, and she does custom work. < as lemmas |
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