flat store

名词 n.
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英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A crooked gambling establishment, such as a casino running rigged or fixed (dishonest) games of chance. slang
    — He had told me that in the old days in Chicago he had run a flat-store with a partner who had tuberculosis and also smoked cigars.
  2. A storage facility in which the material stored is simply piled on a floor (as opposed to a bin or silo).
    — It is sometimes necessary to provide storage for grain beyond the normal capacity of an elevator facility or elsewhere. In such conditions a relatively inexpensive expedient is the flat store. This is little more than a cover for a pile of dry grain adopting its natural form as poured.

词形变化

flat stores plural
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