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tallyman

/tal-ee-muhn/US // ˈtæl i mən //UK // (ˈtælɪmən) //

理货员,理财师,理发师,理学家

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural tal·ly·men.

    • : a person who tallies or keeps account of something.
    • : British. a person who sells merchandise on the hire-purchase system.

Examples

  • The only individual who was received with equal cordiality by all ranks, was the tallyman's traveller.

  • I noticed it, myself, with more especial observation, at my post of tallyman.

  • Some of them had to pay a shilling a week to a tallyman or credit clothier.

  • I was again dressed up in a borrowed boiler suit for the duties of tallyman.

  • And the side of bacon lay upon the hillside until the tallyman from Portburdock found it in the morning.