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canteen

/kan-teen/US // kænˈtin //UK // (kænˈtiːn) //

食堂,水壶,餐厅,饭堂

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a small container used especially by soldiers and hikers for carrying water or other liquids.
    • : a general store and cafeteria at a military base.
    • : a place where free entertainment is provided for military personnel.
    • : a place, as in a factory, school, or summer camp, where refreshments and sometimes personal supplies are sold.
    • : a recreation center or social club, especially for teenagers.
    • : a place set up to dispense food during an emergency.
    • : a snack bar.
    • : British. a box or chest for cutlery and other table utensils.

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Examples

  • Last year The Vegan Society published an employer handbook providing guidance on how to make an office space and canteen more vegan-friendly — including offering vegans their own shelf in the fridge.

  • Nestor focuses on delivering lunch for office workers in ParisFoodles raises another $10 million for its cloud canteen

  • While Elior is working with big companies in glass towers, it has been quite hard to convince small and medium companies to open a canteen in the office.

  • For instance, companies can switch to Nestor for their canteens.

  • Government guidelines promoting plant-based proteins for factory canteens and school cafeterias would play an enormous part in reducing costs and raising public awareness.

  • I innocently wrote a letter home to my mother telling her how great the French chef was in the headquarters canteen.

  • “The profit from the canteen goes directly back into the facility,” says Van Wickler.

  • She spent 12-hour days at the Red Cross canteen, doing whatever was needed.

  • Dick van Hoff x Thomas Eyck Canteen and Lunch Box Set, $299 at GSelect  2.

  • “Being popular online is like sitting at the cool table in the canteen…In a mental hospital,” he wrote.

  • As Matt stepped back from the motor-car and finished screwing the cap on the canteen, a man jumped out into the road.

  • Still hanging to Clip's canteen, he jerked the motor-cycle away from the bushes, got into the saddle, and started the pedals.

  • So the name of a street has become the much-berated canteen of the sutler and the much needed canteen of the soldier.

  • Now, after three months without change of diet, the first canteen ship is about due.

  • The hunter handed over a small bag of food and a large canteen full of water.