| 单词 | fancy stocks |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfancy stocks b. Of a price, rent, etc.: Estimated by caprice, rather than by actual value. So fancy stocks (cf. A. 14). ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > pricing > [adjective] > determined or stated (of price) > by caprice rather than value fancya1838 a1838 Macaulay Life & Lett. (1883) II. 28 The fancy price which a peculiar turn of mind led me to put on my liberty. 1848 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms Fancy stocks, a species of stocks which are bought and sold to a great extent in New York... Nearly all the fluctuations in their prices are artificial. 1874 J. T. Micklethwaite Mod. Parish Churches 312 They will give a fancy price for a work by a Leighton. 1874 R. Tyrwhitt Our Sketching Club 197 To take a moor at a fancy rent. 1888 T. E. Holland in Times 18 Aug. 8/4 The bombardment of an unfortified town..for the purpose of enforcing a fancy contribution or ransom. < as lemmas |
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