English Dictionary

dun

/dʌn/

noun

(countable) A collector of debts, especially one who is insistent and demanding. / An urgent request or demand of payment.

He works as a dun for a debt collection agency.

意味（1）

(countable) A collector of debts, especially one who is insistent and demanding.

"The truth is, Mr. Curl, I cannot write when I am plagued about trifles; and a tiresome dun this morning put to flight every idea that I had in the world."

The truth is, Mr. Curl, I cannot write when I am plagued about trifles; and a tiresome dun this morning put to flight every idea that I had in the world. Mr. Maynard, said the bookseller, in a solemn tone, it is very wrong to run in debt.

意味（2）

An urgent request or demand of payment.

Miss Hoppin received a dun for volume 9 1840–1 which Mr. James McConnell, (who now pays the above) is sure was paid.