单词 | on one's own account |
释义 | > as lemmason (also †upon) one's own account (b) on (also †upon) one's own account: for one's own interest, and at one's own risk; independently. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > non-relation > [adverb] > independently > independently of without regard to (also for, of )?1530 without reference to1600 on (also upon) one's own account1609 independently1659 independent of (on, from)1690 the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > individual [phrase] > in his, its, etc., self > for one's own part a (also in, of) party1372 for one's (own) parta1393 of his behalfa1500 for one's particular1565 on (also upon) one's own account1609 for my (his, etc.) share1643 1609 T. Bodley 1st Draft Statutes in Trecentale Bodleianum (1913) 37 The same may be produced..vpon the Vice-chancellours owne accounte. 1653 T. Fuller Infants Advocate x. 96 Whereas when grown a man he sets up for himself, and takes up a new stock, on his own account. 1730 Let. to Bishop of London from Inhabitant of Leeward-Caribbee Islands 46 No Attempts that I know of were ever made in any of our Sugar-Colonies to hinder the Field-Slaves from Labouring on their own Account on the Lord's Day. 1772 J. Johnson Let. 4 Nov. (1979) 53 You might venture to send 100 hhds tobacco on our own account. 1801 J. Austen Let. 14 Jan. (1995) 72 She..desired me to ask you to purchase for her two bottles of..Lavender Water..provided you should go to the Shop on your own account. 1853 E. Bulwer-Lytton My Novel I. iii. xiii. 211 [She] was sometimes austere and brusque enough on her own account, and in such business as might especially be transacted between herself and the cottagers. 1879 J. Grant in Cassell's Techn. Educator IV. 62/2 He started in business on his own account. 1934 Sun (Baltimore) 3 Mar. 15/8 New York Stock Exchange ‘specialists’ today objected emphatically to provisions of the pending securities market control bill which would require them to abandon the practice of trading on their own account. 1994 J. Burnett Idle Hands iii. 104 The skilled man who could not find alternative work at his usual level had to..set up on his own account as a ‘chamber-master’. < as lemmas |
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