单词 | revend |
释义 | revendv. transitive. To sell (something) again, to resell. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > sell [verb (transitive)] > resell regrate1507 resell1574 to sell over1596 reventa1625 revenda1683 a1683 P. Warwick Disc. Govt. (1694) 171 Our revending those commodities in other parts brings us as much back in specie, or bills of exchange. 1764 T. Mortimer New Hist. Eng. I. Introd. 7/2 We find them exporting ivory, bridles, collars, &c. to foreign parts; probably re-vending them thus manufactured to the Phœnicians themselves. 1787 T. Jefferson Let. 23 July in Papers (1955) XI. 614 The residue to be revended to other nations. 1837 Metrop. Mag. July 242 Salt is sold to them at a price which enables them to make the same exorbitant profits, by re-vending it to their subjects a little dearer than it is sold in Austria. 1863 W. Howitt Hist. Supernatural II. vi. 117 The German poison now revended in England as new. 1915 Leading Cases of Court of Civil Appeals of State of Tennessee V. 203 One definition of a wholesaler accepted the world over is that of a man who sells in bulk to another who intends to re-vend the articles purchased. 1983 M. J. Bennett Community, Class & Careerism (2003) vii. 122 At Chester meat and fish could even be imported, salted for preservation, and then re-vended elsewhere. 2000 Representations Autumn 37 Most of these appropriators and accommodators of Hogarthian images were equally engaged in revending their own consumption. Derivatives re'vender n. rare ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > seller > [noun] > reseller tranter1500 re'vender1868 reseller1891 1868 R. Browning Ring & Bk. I. i. 4 That palace-step..Now serves re-venders to display their ware. reˈvending n. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > [noun] > reselling resale1598 revending1820 1820 Pamphleteer 17 256 The merchant will abstain from purchasing, under the apprehension of a further reduction of price, and of the difficulty of re-vending at a profit. 1832 F. Marryat Newton Forster I. iv. 46 There is no chance of getting rid of this latter speculation by re-vending. 1913 Harvard Law Rev. 27 75 It is said that at the time of this sale the goods pass outside the monopoly, and that a system of contracts limiting the revending illegally restrains trade. 2007 G. Zatzman & R. Islam Econ. of Intangibles p. viii This vending and re-vending of more of the same old wine in new bottles. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.a1683 |
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