| 单词 | abroad clerk | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasabroad clerk   Brewing. attributive, in  abroad clerk,  abroad cooper: designating a brewery employee who visits publicans' premises to collect payments, oversee the way beer is kept, etc. Now rare (chiefly historical). ΚΠ 1781    H. L. Thrale Diary 1 Feb. in  Thraliana 		(1942)	 I. 483  				The first Felicity..that I was saluted with on my Arrival, was an Account of Lancaster our favourite Abroad-Clerk running away with Two Thousand Pounds. 1787    Daily Universal Reg. 19 Apr. 4/3 		(advt.)	  				A Person who has served his time to the brewery will be happy to be employed as a Clerk, either in the counting-house, store-house, or an abroad Clerk, having been employed in all those situations. 1807    J. Middleton View Agric. Middlesex 		(ed. 2)	 xv. 581  				The brewer, by his abroad-cooper, is at the charge of finings and labour to preserve the porter in a saleable condition. 1851    Times 28 Feb. 10/1 		(advt.)	  				Wanted,..a situation as Cashier, Collector, Abroad Cooper, or Store-house Clerk, in one of the large breweries. 1959    P. Mathias Brewing Industry in Eng., 1700–1830 ii. 31 		(note)	  				In Truman Hanbury Buxton the district managers are still called ‘abroad-clerks’ after their eighteenth-century forebears who supervised the monthly collections from publicans; at Whitbreads there are still ‘abroad coopers’. 2006    A. Mutch Strategic & Organizational Change vi. 100  				The ‘abroad cooper’ was sent out from the brewery to check on how beer was being kept. < as lemmas  | 
	
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