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lum•ber•mill

(ˈlʌm bərˌmɪl)

n.

a mill for dressing logs and lumber.

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lumbermill - a mill for dressing logs and lumber

sawmill

factory, manufactory, manufacturing plant, mill - a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing

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Wright began overseeing the Aral lumbermill in the early 1880s and served as its manager until his arrest in 1889.

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The lumbermill metaphor suggests that even with astute knowledge engineers equipped with state-of-the-art tools for extracting knowledge (from domain experts), a firm with an expert system analogous to a lumbermill might fail to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage if that knowledge can be easily (or rapidly) copied by knowledge engineers of rival firms.

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On 3 August, woodworkers (again, non-Jews) demanded a 50 percent wage increase from the predominantly Jewish Society of Lumbermill Owners.