| 单词 | sale or return |
| 释义 | > as lemmassale or (formerly and) return f. sale or (formerly and) return: see quot. 1838. Frequently attributive. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > other trading methods > [noun] fair trading1685 grocery1689 carriage trade1720 sale or (formerly and) return1795 Labour Exchange1828 security system1831 smousingc1876 postal trade1902 triangular trade1934 switch trading1967 relationship management1970 p-y-o1977 counter-trade1978 pick-your-own1980 counter-trading1983 fair trade1986 carry trade1994 1795 T. Peake Cases Nisi Prius 56 Two questions were made, first on the sale and return. 1795 T. Peake Cases Nisi Prius 56 (margin) If goods are delivered on the terms of sale or return. 1838 W. Bell Dict. Law Scotl. Sale and return is a contract, by which goods are delivered by a wholesale dealer to a retailer, to be paid for at a certain rate, if sold again by the retailer; and if not sold, to be returned to the vendor. 1897 Notes & Queries 8th Ser. XII. 215 Many of the papers being sent ‘for sale or return’, and the unsold copies referred to as ‘returns’. 1952 E. Coxhead Play Toward iv. 100 The tickets..were distributed on a sale-or-return basis to every child in the school. 1954 L. Durrell Let. in Spirit of Place (1969) 122 The local bookseller..has been pestering me to help him re-arrange his shop... Is there any sale or return system? 1973 Times 17 Apr. 23/2 A clause forcing direct-sales firms to offer their goods on a ‘sale or return’ basis. 1978 S. Hodges Gollancz vii. 154 Reg Dignum, the London traveller, persuaded Victor to let him sell it [sc. Guilty Men] ‘on sale or return’, a practice which the firm normally never agreed to. < as lemmas |
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