单词 | carriage trade |
释义 | carriage traden. 1. The business of transporting goods, freight, etc. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > other trading methods > [noun] fair trading1685 grocery1689 carriage trade1720 sale or (formerly and) return1795 Labour Exchange1828 security system1831 smousingc1876 postal trade1902 triangular trade1934 switch trading1967 relationship management1970 p-y-o1977 counter-trade1978 pick-your-own1980 counter-trading1983 fair trade1986 carry trade1994 society > travel > travel by water > transportation by water > [noun] > shipping business or trade navigation1593 carriage trade1720 carrying trade1728 society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > transport of goods in a vehicle > [noun] > trade or business of carriage trade1720 carrying trade1728 1720 T. Gordon Considerations Approaching Peace 20 These Advantages are immense, and will give us all the Carriage Trade of the Mediterranean. 1837 Penny Cycl. VIII. 19/2 The carriage trade from England is at present very brisk from the smaller traders supplying themselves direct from London or Bristol. 1974 H.R. 5787 & H.R. 7757 relating to Shipment Motor Vehicles: Hearing before Subcomm. No. 2, Armed Services Comm. (House of Representatives, 93rd Congr., 2nd Sess.) 6 This carrier has a virtual monopoly on the Alaska POV [= privately owned vehicle] carriage trade. 2003 Enterprise & Society 4 411 When it primarily involved a carriage trade in port, sherry, and Madeira, the wine merchant T. G. Shaw remembered, the wine business was relatively simple. 2. Trade or custom from people who travel by carriage (by implication, wealthy people). Later also in extended use (originally colloquial): wealthy people collectively. ΚΠ 1929 Daily Mail (Atlantic ed.) 16 Mar. 9/1 The endeavour [of merchandisers] to hold their quondam ‘carriage trade’ against the keen competition offered by speciality shops now located right in the heart of the fashionable residential sections. 1930 R. E. Sherwood Waterloo Bridge i. i. 26 Every time I'd walk out of the stage door in Forty-first street, the whole carriage trade'd be there, fighting to get at me. 1957 Times 9 Dec. xiii Before the great British public discovered the delights of beaches, the little ports of Ulster had their ‘carriage trade’, for the ladies and gentlemen of the small mansions used to drive to Bangor in co. Down or Portstewart in co. Derry. 2003 Village Voice (N.Y.) 26 Mar. 66/4 A ghastly meal..of indigestible proletarian cooking gussied up expensively for the carriage trade. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1720 |
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