Dacca
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Since then, former workers say, almost no one has been able to find a job in another garment factory, not once potential employers find out they used to work at Dacca Dyeing.
From Slate • Dec. 15, 2016
Alonzo Suson, director of the Solidarity Center’s Bangladesh program, told me that supervisors at Dacca Dyeing had told his office they were moving Gap’s orders to another Palmal Group factory because of the unionization drive.
From Slate • Dec. 15, 2016
The next claim came from Rajendralal De, an Indian chemist working in Dacca, then part of British India and now in Bangladesh.
From Scientific American • Jul. 5, 2013
At week's end the coup's leaders announced that the slain President was buried Saturday in his home village near Dacca with "full honors."
From Time Magazine Archive
His name was Mr. Pirzada, and he came from Dacca, now the capital of Bangladesh, but then a part of Pakistan.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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