pure finder

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Someone who collected dog faeces for sale to tanneries (which used it as a siccative for bookbinding leather). Undertaken by poor people in Britain in the 18th and 19th centuries. obsolete
    — The pure-finders meet with a ready market for all the dogs’-dung they are able to collect, at the numerous tanyards in Bermondsey.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pure, finder.
    — As one commentator has noted, although a pure finder may "induce the purchase or sale of" a security within the meaning of Section 15(a)(1), he or she is not normally a "broker" because he or she effects no transactions.

词形变化

pure finders plural pure collector alternative pure gatherer alternative
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