coal operator
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcoalandoperator
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coal
noun[C or U]
uk/kəʊl/us/koʊl/
a hard, black substance that is dug from the earth in pieces, and can be burned to produce heat or power, or a single piece ...
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operator
noun[C]
uk/ˈɒp.ər.eɪ.tər/us/ˈɑː.pə.reɪ.t̬ɚ/
someone whose job is to use and control a machine ...
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(Definition ofcoalandoperatorfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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In many cases, thecoaloperatormay not consider it worth his while to find a market for them.
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It is intended that this will stand in the way of acoaloperatorwho wants to escape his subsidence responsibilities by engineering his own dissolution.
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He was a clerk in his fathers store for several years and later became acoaloperatorand banker.
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He engaged in business as acoaloperator, banker, and publisher.
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After discharge from the service engaged in business as acoaloperator, and in the wholesale beef business.
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Difficult relations with coal operators alerted labour to the danger of divide-and-rule tactics.
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Although the legislature passed some mine laws, coal operators routinely ignored those laws that were on the books.
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Coal operators and labor leaders unsuccessfully sought to establish minimum standards of mining competition that would limit the competitive advantages of the nonunion mines.
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It is, of course, in the hands of private sector coal operators to take decisions on the future commercial operation of individual coal mines.
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The availability of compulsory rights to land is not a special privilege of opencast coal operators.
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We certainly wish to make sure that future coal operators maintain equally high standards.
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There is no obvious reason why private coal operators should be in a better position than other mineral operators whose land or rights they wish to acquire.
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He argued that if this is spatchcocked into the legislation, would there not be implications in other legislation that opencast coal operators would have to take into account?
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Busily organizing a far-flung bureaucracy, he quickly made himself an enemy of the union's radicals and a social friend of coal operators.
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The coal operators hired them to evict the miners and their families from the company owned houses.
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In one month, this system caused the coal operators to fire more than 3,000 non-union men.
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Without government support, the contract talks failed and coal operators hired non-union miners.
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Patton was regarded as more moderate than most coal operators in his relationship to labor unions.
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Coal operators have no deadline to provide miners with improved rescue gear.
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