As of 2019, Starbucks opens a new store every 15 hours in China. The coffee chain has grown by 700% over the past decade.
FETTLER
Etymology
Noun
fettler (plural fettlers)
A person who maintains railway lines.
Someone whose job is to sand and grind small imperfections from metal and ceramic castings.
(by extension) Someone who fiddles or tinkers with things.
(slang, UK, Lancashire) A friend or mate
(mining, historical) An ostler; one who looks after the horses in a mine.
Source: Wiktionary
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(noun) an abbreviation formed from the initial letters of the several words in the name and pronounced separately; “HTML is an initialism for HyperText Markup Language”
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