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Meaning of pure finder | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  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
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pure, finder.

Examples

“The pure-finders meet⟳ with a ready market for all the dogs’-dung they are able to collect⟳, at the numerous tanyards in Bermondsey.”
“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.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

pure good pure imaginary number pure laine pure land pure mathematics pure name

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