| 单词 | bulk-buying |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbulk-buying C1. attributive. = in bulk, as bulk-buying, bulk-purchasing, bulk supply, etc. ΘΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > much/a great amount/quantity of > in a large quantity bulk1693 1693 [see sense 1a]. 1848 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1847 527 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (30th Congr., 1st Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 54) VI Bulk pork is that which is intended for immediate use or smoking. 1892 Daily News 13 May 5/8 Bulk transport threatens ‘danger to the security, safety, and freedom from interruption of the Suez Canal’. 1897 Daily News 18 Nov. 2/2 A bulk sample of about 2 feet of the lode on the hanging wall. 1906 Daily Chron. 3 Mar. 4/4 Bulk power generation. 1906 Daily Chron. 13 June 4/6 A monopoly of the bulk supply [of electricity]. 1930 Economist 19 July 107/1 The question of import boards for bulk purchases. 1930 Economist 9 Aug. 272/1 The project of setting up bulk-purchasing import boards. 1932 Times Lit. Suppl. 10 Nov. 824/3 Not only is it impossible for the potentialities of bulk-buying..to be exploited, [etc.]. 1940 ‘M. Innes’ Secret Vanguard xix. 209 Let us worry rather about petrol and bulk wheat. 1949 Hansard Commons CDLXV. 1453 50 per cent..of the total imports of the country are bulk-purchased by the Government. 1949 Hansard Commons CDLXV. 1558 When we talk about bulk buying, we obviously mean three or four different things. We mean an ordinary large single purchase; we mean centralised buying; and, of course, we mean State trading. < as lemmas |
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