| 单词 | rat office |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrat office rat office n. now historical = rat printing office n.; (also) a rat-firm (rare). ΚΠ 1833 Sun (N.Y.) 21 Oct. ii. 48 The office of the Journal of Commerce is what printers term a ‘Rat office’—and the term ‘Rat’, with the followers of the same profession with Faust, Franklin, and Stanhope, is a most odious term. 1930 C. E. Morgan Origin & Hist. N.Y. Employing Printer's Assoc. iii. 45 Other rat offices there seem to have been; indeed, there seem to have been many unemployed unionists, for the society opened the first regular House of Call and attempted a cooperative printing plant. 1993 Toronto Star (Nexis) 19 June g15 A rat-firm,..-office..is a place wherein less than full union rates are paid. 1995 W. S. Pretzer From Artisan to Alderman in H. B. Rock et al. Amer. Artisans ix. 141 His notoriety came from being the chief practical printer in the most notorious ‘rat’ office in the nation. < as lemmas |
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