| 单词 | cooperative store |
| 释义 | > as lemmascooperative store cooperative store n. a store or shop owned and run by a cooperative association or society, whose members share its profits; cf. cooperative shop n. ΚΠ ?1827 London Co-operative Trading Fund Assoc.: Meeting of Shareholders 11th Dec. 1827 (single sheet) verso It was notified to the meeting that the lower floor of No. 36 Red Lion Square would be put at the disposition of the Association for their use as a Co-operative Store, free of rent and taxes for at least one year, by the munificence of the members of the London Co-operative Society. 1981 B. Head Serowe xxv. 171 A co-operative store could be made workable with a range of goods the members had produced themselves. 2005 Press (Christchurch, N.Z.) 17 Sept. (News section) Runanga became an incubator for the socialist ideology even to the extent of starting a co-operative store with grocery, drapery, boot repair and bakery departments. co-operative store b. In Great Britain after about 1850, the word became current in the designation co-operative store, denoting the shop in which a co-operative trading society exposes goods for sale (originally to its own members only, but later usually also to the outside public). Commonly in plural (‘The Stores’), applied esp. to the establishment of any of the larger London co-operative societies, consisting of a number of departments, each dealing in a separate class of goods. In imitation of this use, the plural (‘——'s Stores’, ‘—— & Co.'s Stores’) was often adopted as the designation of a trading establishment resembling ‘The Stores’ in extent and in multifariousness of business. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > large shop store1852 department store1887 superstore1915 supermarket1931 supermart1938 hypermarket1970 megastore1970 society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > co-operative store store1852 co-operative1883 1852 Visct. Goderich in Visct. Ingestre Meliora 85 In the end of 1850, the London Central Cooperative Store, as it was then called, was opened. 1865 Sat. Rev. 21 Jan. 79/2 The first development of the principle which obtained considerable results was the Co-operative Store. 1881 St. James's Mag. XL. 389 Ladies of highest rank and fashion struggling through crowds of ill-clad people at the Stores. 1889 M. Haweis Art of Housek. 97 These materials are bought infinitely cheaper at the Stores, than at the chemists. 1917 N.E.D. at Store Mod. I know nothing about local prices; I deal at the Stores. < as lemmas |
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