| 单词 | mom and pop |
| 释义 | mom and pop in British Englishnoun US, Canadian and South Africa a. a small family-owned private business enterprise b. (as modifier) a mom and pop store mom-and-pop in American English (ˈmɑmənˈpɑp) (noun plural -pops) adjective 1. of or pertaining to a small retail business, usually owned and operated by members of a family a mom-and-pop grocery 2. of or indicating something, as an enterprise, investment, or project, that is independent, small in scope, and modestly financed noun 3. a small-scale, owner-operated business Word origin [1950–55, Amer.]This word is first recorded in the period 1950–55. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: action painting, drip-dry, point spread, point-of-sale, speech recognition |
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