单词 | on the grey market |
释义 | > as lemmason the grey market 3. Legal but arguably unethical traffic or trade in any officially controlled goods or currencies, or in commodities in short supply; trading through informal or unauthorized channels; a market for this. Also in on the grey market: in informal, unauthorized, or unethical trade of this kind. Cf. black market n., white market n. at white adj. and n. Compounds 1f. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > illegal or immoral trading > [noun] > unauthorized trading interloperie1612 interloping1615 grey market1934 1934 A. J. Toynbee Surv. Internat. Affairs 1934 51 The remaining export bills could be sold at a limited premium on the 'grey' market. 1943 Amer. Sociol. Rev. 8 32 Farmers will favor friends and relatives freely, but this has been called the ‘gray market’ in contrast to the urban organized ‘black market’. 1946 Life 1 Apr. 32/1 In the Rocky Mountain region there is a gray market in toilet paper. 1957 New Scientist 21 Mar. 42/1 Even the higher quotation comes nowhere near the rate some consumers have been prepared to pay on the grey market. 1963 Listener 14 Feb. 275/2 In the [Czechoslovakian] countryside there is a gigantic grey market where the collective farms get together to defeat the demands of the state. 1977 Harvard Business Rev. Jan. 102/1 American primary producers were selling direct..to overseas purchasers who resold the goods to American users. Gray markets are hardly new and are almost certain to give rise to peculiar marketing channels during times of product shortage. 2004 W. St. John Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer 173 The games are technically sold out, but there's a bustling gray market for tickets. < as lemmas |
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