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PRONUNCIATION OF MILK ROUND

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MILK ROUND

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Milk round is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES MILK ROUND MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Milk round

The Milk round is the term commonly used in the UK to describe the phenomenon of companies touring universities each year, in order to advertise their opportunities and recruit students. The name milk round also refers to the online university student website, which is an online version of the traditional method in which business recruited University students.

Definition of milk round in the English dictionary

The definition of milk round in the dictionary is a route along which a milkman regularly delivers milk. Other definition of milk round is a regular series of visits, esp as made by recruitment officers from industry to universities.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MILK ROUND

milk jug
milk lameness
milk leg
milk of magnesia
milk pan
milk parsley
milk powder
milk products
milk pudding
milk punch
milk run
milk saucepan
milk shake
milk sickness
milk snake
milk stout
milk sugar
milk thistle
milk tooth
milk train

WORDS THAT END LIKE MILK ROUND

all-around
all-round
around
background
bound
break new ground
campground
fall to the ground
foreground
get around
get off the ground
ground
into the ground
playground
round
surround
the high ground
to the ground
turnaround
underground
year-round

Synonyms and antonyms of milk round in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «milk round» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MILK ROUND

Find out the translation of milk round to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of milk round from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «milk round» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

奶圆
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

ronda de la leche
570 millions of speakers

English

milk round
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

दूध दौर
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

جولة الحليب
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

молоко круглый
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

leite rodada
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

দুধ বৃত্তাকার
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

ronde de lait
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Susu pusingan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Milch Runde
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ミルクラウンド
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

우유 라운드
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Susu babak
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

vòng sữa
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பால் சுற்று
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

दुध राउंड
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Yuvarlak süt
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

rotondo latte
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

runda mleko
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

молоко круглий
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

rotund lapte
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

γύρο γάλα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

melk ronde
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

mjölk runda
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

melk runde
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of milk round

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MILK ROUND»

The term «milk round» is normally little used and occupies the 141.648 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MILK ROUND» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «milk round» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «milk round» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about milk round

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MILK ROUND»

Discover the use of milk round in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to milk round and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Public Health
Area 1 as regards M.'s milk, is entirely on milk-round II, Area 2 on milk-round I, while Area 3 is largely on round IV. This was also demonstrated by the cases supplied to me by medical men, for 30 households were upon milk-round II, 12 upon ...
‎1905
2
Five Summers
The milk round was the one thing that Sandy really did find difficult. He could harness the pony and cart, he could even manoeuvre the heavy milk churn on to the back of the cart. This would have been no mean feat for a fit man but Sandy had ...
James Maskell, 2012
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The Handbook of Technology Management: Supply Chain ...
Milk-Round (Milk Run) Collection/Delivery: A logistics concept whereby parts are collected from several suppliers before delivered to the point-of-use. In comparison to direct deliveries from all suppliers, smaller and more frequent shipments ...
Hossein Bidgoli, 2010
4
Key Account Management: Tools and Techniques for Achieving ...
Before turning to those models, let us go back a step and consider three different approaches to selling, and the kinds of customer relationship they engender. We will call these sales approaches: the 'milk-round', the 'hunter' and the 'farmer'.
Peter Cheverton, 2008
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New Scientist
F. T. Spencer Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry University of Buenos Aires Argentina Milk round John Emsley's advice to final-year chemistry students is dangerous ( 1 8 February, p 67). We are of course delighted that there will be a ...
6
Bank of Dave: How I Took On the Banks
The answer seemed obvious: he'd take on a second milk round. So that's what he did. He got someone to work for him. got a second van. a second lot of milk... you get the picture. So he got the income from a second milk round. but out of that ...
Dave Fishwick, 2012
7
Loch Ness, Nessie and Me
I complained about the lack of heating several times, but on a particularly cold day in February, after completing less than half the milk round, I was frozen and my delivery assistant had finally rebelled and walked out. I was on my own.
Tony Harmsworth, 2011
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Loch Ness Understood
I complained about the lack of heating several times, but on a particularly cold day in February, after completing less than half the milk round, I was frozen and my delivery assistant had finally rebelled and walked out. I was on my own.
Tony Harmsworth, 2012
9
Dictionary of Americanisms, Briticisms, Canadianisms and ...
Milk of Magnesia Br. tdmk. a type of laxative. milk puddingBr. pudding made mainly ofmilk andrice. a milk round/ have a milk round Br. work asamilkman going from house to house delivering milk. the milk round Br. 1. col. the annual tour of.
V. S. Matyushenkov, 2010
10
Land Girl: Women's Voices from the Wartime Farm
Ihadtwo milk laddies who helped me deliver the milk round to the customers before they went to school—and one had to keepan eye on them! The first week I was on the milk round I lookedback to seeifthey had shut thevan doorand thenext  ...
Joan Mant, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MILK ROUND»

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Scott Quigg: I owe everything to my family
I remember my mum used to have a milk round, then three parcel rounds and then work at her mum's chippy. I've seen what my mum has put in ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
2
Cotteswold Dairy to announce investment to secure 260 …
... Workman, son of Roger and managing director at the third generation firm started by his grandfather Harry with a 30-gallon milk round. «Gloucestershire Echo, Jul 15»
3
Recruitment agencies 'hoover up' and sell back new teachers
Mr Manning told Schools Week he was “irritated” at the behaviour of agency reps on the university milk round this year. “They have been ... «Schools Week, Jul 15»
4
MY RETFORD: Meet Keith Tomlinson
Keith's first job after leaving school was a milk round which he had for about nine months. "I'd deliver all over the area and the villages." In 1972 ... «Retford Times, Jul 15»
5
Man (42) jailed for not paying Revenue
Elaine O'Reilly told Ms Walley that her husband had left school as a young teenager to work on a milk round and had used his wages to buy ... «Fingal Independent, Jul 15»
6
Judge apologises for jailing man who owed Revenue €250000
Elaine O'Reilly told Ms Walley that her husband had left school as a young teenager to work on a milk round and had used his wages to buy fuel for his mother. «Sunday World, Jun 15»
7
Can you help adoptee trying to trace Rugby family?
Mabel was 22 when she had Lynn, and is believed to have been a milk round lady, possibly connected with Rugby School. Anyone with any ... «Rugby Observer, Jun 15»
8
British Empire Medal for Polruan milkman
Mr Libby uses the milk round he's been doing since the 1970s to keep an eye on all his customers and make sure they're all right, and while ... «Cornish Guardian, Jun 15»
9
Why my Saturday job was the making of me
After the paper rounds, I got a milk round. Despite getting up on a freezing morning at 5.45am, to hop on and off a moving milk cart with wet ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jun 15»
10
Milkman Peter's last round
... up in bed fast asleep, Peter collected his float, loaded up the milk round and got on with his deliveries, typically completing his 'day' by noon. «Leamington Courier, Jun 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Milk round [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/milk-round>. May 2024 ».
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