livery company
noun[C]
ukusatradeassociationin the City of London,especiallyone withancientorigins
(alsolivery service)
acompanythatrentsvehicles
单词 | livery company |
释义 | livery company noun[C] ukusatradeassociationin the City of London,especiallyone withancientorigins (alsolivery service) acompanythatrentsvehicles Examplesoflivery companylivery company It is not, therefore, technically aliverycompanyalthough to all intents and purposes it acts as such. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The company's first ordinances originate from 1261, which predate those of any other existingliverycompany, although its current ordinances were issued in 1741. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Some of the workers were highly skilled - the lightermen had their ownliverycompanyor guild, while the deal porters (workers who carried timber) were famous for their acrobatic skills. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. This is based primarily on the corporation archives and on a search of all survivingliverycompanyand parish accounts, and each levy is sourced. From theCambridge English Corpus Membership of aliverycompanyis denoted by an asterisk. From theCambridge English Corpus It is aliverycompany, and very rich, governed by a prime and five other wardens, and a court of assistants. FromProject Gutenberg I have been involved in fishery affairs for some years through myliverycompany, the fishmongers, which actively supports the industry and does its best to speak up for it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 An eminent speaker once addressed ourliverycompanyand excelled himself by saying what a pity it was that our craft had died and was no longer in being. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Post-1926 companies are described as "modern livery companies". From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. It does not include institutions endowed by city businesses, livery companies or churches that had their boundary outside the square mile. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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