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单词 mill owner
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Definition of mill owner in English:

mill owner

noun
  • A person who owns a factory fitted with machinery for a particular manufacturing process.

    housing was frequently built by the mill owner and rented to the workers
    Example sentencesExamples
    • She lives with her husband Avery, a well-off mill owner.
    • Margaret comes to know and respect the ideas and the family life of both mill-hands and mill-owners.
    • The mill owner claims the plant was running at a loss.
    • The onset of a boom meant that millowners were more eager to make profits while they could, rather than engage in a long strike.
    • The museum is the former home of 19th Century mill owner Colonel Edward Akroyd.
    • The government adopted stringent regulations for any sale of flour by private mill owners.
    • The son of a mill-owner, James Stuart received his school education at Madras College, St Andrews.
    • She later worked in the household of a Bradford mill owner.
    • The all-powerful mill owners were forced to grudgingly accept that their workers were entitled to an annual holiday.
    • The mill owners now had access to water from the Canal Corporation's storage reservoirs.
    • Pauper children could be 'apprenticed' to millowners in another town.
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