| 单词 | cash and carry |
| 释义 | > as lemmascash and carry g. cash and carry, a system whereby the purchaser pays cash for goods and takes them away himself. Usually attributive. Also elliptical, a shop or supermarket operating on this system. spec. used with reference to purchases of arms from the U.S. in the period immediately before 1941. Also, cash and carry away. Originally U.S. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > buying > [noun] > uplift by buyer on payment of cash cash and carry1917 society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > other types of shop show shop1787 lock-up shop1795 cash-store1811 boat shop1813 slaughter shop1841 slaughterhouse1851 ticket-shop1851 charity shop1853 magic shop1853 company store1872 Army and Navy1878 five-and-ten1880 farthing-shop1889 funeral home1895 goodwill1916 shop-within-(a)-shop1916 cash and carry1917 Piggly Wiggly1917 poverty shop1948 discount house1949 anchor1960 box store1976 mom-and-pop1976 op shop1978 duty-free1980 pound shop1983 pop-up2000 society > armed hostility > military equipment > arming or equipping with weapons > [adjective] > cash and carry (of arms bought from U.S.) cash and carry1937 1917 Ladies' Home Jrnl. July 27/3 I would recommend to every woman that you follow the ‘cash and carry’ plan of buying in preference to the ‘credit and delivery’ plan. 1921 Dial. Notes 5 112. 1922 S. Lewis Babbitt iv. 48 One of these cash-and-carry chain stores. 1927 Mag. of Business July 35/1 I located my store in a veritable nest of ‘cash and carries’. 1930 Economist 24 May 1178/2 Marks and Spencer, being a ‘cash and carry’ concern, is liquid in every respect. 1937 Ann. Reg. 1936 294 The President should be given some measure of discretion to permit, say, the victims of aggression to buy, pay for, and transport at their own risk such supplies, not actually munitions of war, which they might need. This policy was described by its proponents as the ‘cash and carry’ policy. 1940 Ann. Reg. 1939 308 It [sc. a Bill of U.S. Senate] permitted the country to sell arms to belligerents on a ‘cash-and-carry’ basis. 1962 H. O. Beecheno Introd. Business Stud. xi. 101 These [discount] shops restrict themselves to selling goods on a cash-and-carry-away basis. 1970 Times 16 Mar. 15 The number of cash and carries has grown from 398 in 1967 to 610 at the end of the year. < as lemmas |
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