单词 | regrating |
释义 | regratingn. Now historical. The action of regrate v.1 ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > illegal or immoral trading > [noun] > buying up goods for resale or monopoly regrateryc1400 regratinga1450 engrossing?1542 forestalling1548 engrossment1598 coemption1625 abbrochment1670 forestalment1861 switch dealing1957 switch deal1973 a1450 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Rawl.) (1960) A. iii. 72 (MED) Regratyng [c1400 Trin. Cambr. Þei..risen vp þoruȝ regratie & rentis hem biggen]. 1490 in Extracts Rec. Royal Burgh of Lanark (1893) 6 That ilke day Sande Grub is cumin in will for regrating. 1533 Ld. Lisle Let. in State Papers Henry VIII (P.R.O.: SP 1/78) f. 184 That that shalbe..solde shalbe..first brought vnto the markettes..ther to be solde..wtoute any maner of regrating or forstalling of the same. a1550 Vox Populi 41 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. (1866) III. 269 Suche and suche, That of late are made riche,..By grasyng and regratinge. a1599 E. Spenser View State Ireland 116 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) By such ingrosing and regrating wee see the dearth that now commonly raigneth here in England, to have beene caused. 1630 R. Brathwait Eng. Gentleman 243 In Courts, are suits and actions of Law;..in the Country, ingrossing and regrating, of purpose to oppresse. 1662 in M. Wood Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1940) IX. 309 Being accused of regraitting in buying of a loadning of apples..and selling of them over againe. 1727 D. Defoe Compl. Eng. Tradesman II. i. v. 148 All regrating and forestalling of Markets, is accounted..pernicious in Trade. 1737 S.-Carolina Gaz. 16 Apr. 1/1 An Act for regulating the Markets in the Parish of St. Philip's Charles-Town, and for preventing Forestalling, Ingrossing, Regrating and unjust Exactions in the said Town and Markets. 1797 E. Burke Let. 23 May in Corr. (1970) IX. 362 I was myself the person who moved the repeal of the absurd code of Statutes, against the most useful of all trades, under the invidious Names of forestalling regrating. 1844 Act 7 & 8 Victoria c. 24 (title) An Act for abolishing the Offences of forestalling, regrating, and engrossing. 1868 Daily News 4 Sept. Theatrical Forestalling and Regrating.—..By buying up the admissions to [Parisian] theatres which dramatic or operatic authors are privileged to sign, and retailing them to the public. 1937 A. F. Lucas Industr. Reconstruction & Control of Competition i. 12 The ancient laws against the offences of badgering, engrossing, forestalling, and regrating were removed from the statute books. 2008 P. Linebaugh Magna Carta Manifesto iii. 60 Regrating—named the central sin of the commodity economy—involved buying in order to sell. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1450 |
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