单词 | hand-selling |
释义 | hand-sellingn.2 Now rare. The selling of goods by Dutch auction (see auction n. 3). Cf. handseller n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > a public sale > [noun] > auction > selling by auction rouping1513 canting1651 auctioneering1744 hand-selling1851 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 329/2 Sometimes its a better game than ‘han-selling’. 1879 T. Dixon in W. B. Scott Autobiogr. Notes II. 267 There is a plan of dealing in books called hand-selling, which is selling by a kind of auction. The upset price..is gradually reduced, till somebody takes it. 1908 City of Liverpool: Market Bye-laws 15 No person shall in any market attract persons by hand-selling. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.21851 |
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