| 单词 | revenuer |
| 释义 | revenuer in British English (ˈrɛvɪˌnjuːə) noun US slang a revenue officer or cutter revenuer in American English (ˈrɛvəˌnuər; ˈrɛvəˌnjuər) US noun Informal a Treasury Department revenue agent, esp. one concerned with halting illegal alcohol distilling and bootlegging revenuer in American English (ˈrevənˌjuːər, -əˌnuː-) noun informal an agent of the U.S. Treasury Department, esp. one whose responsibility is to enforce laws against illegal distilling or bootlegging of alcoholic liquor Word origin [1875–80, Amer.; revenue + -er1]This word is first recorded in the period 1875–80. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: authoritarian, musical chairs, neoclassic, overdraft, pressure point-er is a suffix used in forming nouns designating persons from the object of their occupationor labor (hatter; tiler; tinner; moonshiner), or from their place of origin or abode (Icelander; southerner; villager), or designating either persons or things from some special characteristic or circumstance(six-footer; three-master; teetotaler; fiver; tenner) |
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