单词 | labour bank |
释义 | > as lemmaslabour bank labour bank n. (a) a bank or depot in which goods may be deposited or converted into labour notes (labour note n.) for use in a labour exchange (Labour Exchange n. 1b) (now historical); (b) (chiefly U.S.) a bank organized or run by a labour organization or union. ΚΠ 1832 Poor Man's Guardian 7 Jan. 239/1 The best means of establishing a Labour Bank for the exchange of Labour. 1847 Illustr. London News 28 Aug. 135/3 The Chartists are raising subscriptions to establish a bank, to be called the ‘Labour Bank’. 1904 Boston Daily Globe 24 Jan. 8/3 Establish a labor bank; deposit therein the funds from the treasuries of the unions of Chicago... Do not let labor's money any longer draw interest for capitalists. 1958 Oxf. Econ. Papers 10 357 The First Western Co-operative Union in London..added a labour bank to its shop in 1831–2. 2005 Washington Post (Nexis) 15 June a25 Unite-Here cannot risk the withdrawal of massive union deposits from Amalgamated Bank (the nation's one labor bank, which Unite-Here owns). < as lemmas |
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