单词 | remaindering |
释义 | remainderingn. The action or practice of selling a book or other item at a reduced price owing to a fall in demand. Cf. remainder n. 7. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > selling or sale of specific things > [noun] > books > practices or systems subscribing1751 subscription1836 net system1890 remaindering1907 bestsellerism1913 denetting1992 1907 Times 21 Mar. 11/1 The modes of remaindering or quick-scrapping of slow-selling books. 1959 Daily Tel. 29 Dec. 6/2 Swift turnover for cash, sometimes of goods specially ordered for the sales, and the ‘remaindering’ of clothes, carpets, furniture and whatnot which might not otherwise be sold so quickly—or even, where fashion is important, at all. 1975 Notes 32 246 It also leads to remaindering, a fairly safe exit for the publisher with a limited-appeal volume on his hands. 2002 H. Jones & C. Benson Publishing Law (ed. 2) v. 104 An academic author..could have sold the remaining copies to students had he or she known the remaindering was about to take place. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1907 |
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