textile mill
collocation in Englishmeaningsoftextileandmill
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textile
noun[C]
uk/ˈtek.staɪl/us/ˈtek.staɪl/
a cloth made by hand ...
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mill
noun[C]
uk/mɪl/us/mɪl/
a building where grain is crushed ...
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(Definition oftextileandmillfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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While various studies have described thetextilemillwelfare programmes,7 they do not clarify how the women themselves regarded the significance of housework.
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How can they assist it, given that atextilemillcloses every day?
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It is as though a pit, a steel works or atextilemillhad closed in a community that depended on it.
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I remember going round atextilemillin a northern town a year or two ago.
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In my constituency there have been short-time working and substantialtextilemillclosures and there has been short-time working in the furniture industry.
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One of the first things—it is comparatively easy—is atextilemill.
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They may take ancillary components, but thetextilemill, the steel mill, and the like, has to be established in that country.
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Another gentleman in the same town, who is the head manager of atextilemill, has been turned down absolutely flat from getting a telephone.
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The wages of the miners, the engineers, the agricultural labourers, thetextilemillhands, and so on, have been reduced.
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From the nature of those industries they are much more agreeable in which to work than even the best equippedtextilemill, whatever one does.
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Indeed,textilemillupontextilemillhas disappeared.
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When a pit, clothing factory ortextilemillcloses, jobs are lost in the support industries.
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I would like to cite the case of atextilemillwhich dispatches very valuable high-quality knitwear.
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Districts which previously counted the textile industry as one of their main providers of employment are finding it difficult to locate atextilemillthat is working.
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Textilemillowners in my area are delighted with the scheme because they believe it will reduce the amount of imported textiles.
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The other is a largetextilemill.
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In thetextilemill, which was very modern, some of the safety conditions were a disgrace to any country in the world, and would not be tolerated here.
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The case is mentioned of women and young persons being employed in atextilemillfor periods up to 71 hours, whereas the legal limits are 55½ hours a week.
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It was also the first successfultextilemillin the area.
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His parents had recently moved there, following his father's appointment as chief bookkeeper at a localtextilemill.
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