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What (who) is milk round - definition

Milkround

milk round         
(milk rounds)
1.
If someone has a milk round, they work as a milkman, going from house to house delivering milk. (BRIT)
Milk rounds are threatened as customers switch to buying from supermarkets.
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2.
The milk round is an event that happens once a year when people from large companies visit colleges and universities and interview students who are interested in working for them. (BRIT)
He obtained his first job through the milk round.
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milk round         
¦ noun Brit.
1. a regular milk delivery along a fixed route.
2. a series of visits to universities and colleges by recruiting staff from large companies.
Milk round         
The milkround is the term commonly used in the UK to describe the semester of companies touring colleges each year, in order to advertise their companies and recruit students.

Wikipedia

Milk round

The milkround is the term commonly used in the UK to describe the semester of companies touring colleges each year, in order to advertise their companies and recruit students.

An online university student website is also called Milkround, which is an online version of the traditional method in which business recruited university students.

Examples of use of milk round
1. The traditional ‘milk round‘ of career fairs at universities could be challenged on age discrimination grounds.
2. "Firms are going to have to do something wider than just the milk round in order to get graduates in," he added.
3. Ernie was only 52, he didn‘t wanna die, And now he‘s gone to make deliveries in that milk round in the sky.
4. By 1'10, he was working a milk round in Newark, but already developing a taste for the gangster life by running an illegal betting business on the side.
5. He did a milk round on the morning of the wedding, and took just five days off from his father‘s dairy business to go on honeymoon to Scarborough.