单词 | chain store |
释义 | > as lemmaschain store chain store n. originally U.S. one of a series of stores belonging to one firm and dealing in the same class of goods. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > series of shops with one owner > one of chain store1910 multiple1951 1910 Sat. Evening Post 10 Sept. 76/2 There were loud declarations of war from the manager of the association that buys goods for retail grocers fighting the chain stores. 1922 S. Lewis Babbitt iv. 48 One of these cash-and-carry chain-stores..cutting prices below cost. 1930 Economist 4 Jan. 18/1 The company's expansion into the chain store business has been carried on at too rapid a rate. 1957 J. I. M. Stewart Use of Riches i. 11 And what about the chain stores—the poor man's Army and Navy, the suburban housewife's Harrods? < as lemmas |
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