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Definition of Mill agent
1. Noun. The responsible official at a mill that is under absentee ownership.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mill Agent
Literary usage of Mill agent
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Business Employments by Frederick James Allen (1916)
"The mill agent must be a person of long experience in management and of business
acumen. He must know men and be able to gather around himself a strong ..."
2. Merchandising by John B. Swinney (1917)
"... there is no good reason to expect a curtailment of his activities. 10.
mill agent.—The mill or factory agent has come to be known as an agent altho, ..."
3. Fire Insurance Inspection & Underwriting by Charles Carroll Dominge, W. O. Lincoln (1920)
"They can be classified as speculative wholesalers and are the middlemen between
the mill or mill agent and the retailer or small manufacturer. ..."
4. Marketing, Its Problems and Methods by Carson Samuel Duncan (1920)
"The manufacturer reaches the broker and resident mill agent through correspondence.
The broker differs from the mill agent in that he represents several ..."
5. Transactions of the National Association of Cotton Manufacturers by National Association of Cotton Manufacturers, New England Cotton Manufacturers' Association (1899)
"But it has occurred to me that he has in his paper left out one of the cardinal
principles that a successful mill agent or manager must have in order to ..."
6. Lost But Found: Or, The Jewish Home by Madeline Leslie (1868)
"THE MILL-AGENT. By MRS. MARY A. DENNISON. " The more of this class of books the
... By Author of " Mill-Agent." Another work of rare originality and merit. ..."
7. Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of by Ellery Bicknell Crane (1907)
"He was superintendent of some of the departments, became a manager and mill agent,
and at one time managed the wool department in commission houses in New ..."
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