单词 | lot selling |
释义 | > as lemmaslot selling lot selling n. †(a) the practice of selling sets of miscellaneous items (obsolete rare); (b) chiefly North American the selling of plots of land. ΚΠ 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 447/2 The origin of ‘lot-selling’, or selling ‘penny lots’ instead of penny articles, was more curious. 1883 Chicago's First Half Cent. xiv. 174/1 Lot-selling and house-building in the normal state of communities go hand in hand. 1935 Calif. Hist. Soc. Q. 14 216 The method of lot-selling was simply a marking and reserving by the purchaser on a map which was presented to all arrivals without discrimination. 2006 T. E. Sheridan Landscapes of Fraud (2007) ix. 230 By 1997, Avatar had largely abandoned the sluggish lot-selling business. < as lemmas |
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