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单词 find or have vent
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to find or have (..) vent
1. The fact, on the part of commodities, of being disposed of by sale or of finding purchasers; frequently in the phrases to find or have (..) vent.
a. With a (or no).
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society > trade and finance > selling > [noun] > fact of being sold
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?1542 H. Brinkelow Complaynt Roderyck Mors ii. sig. A8v This being reformed aboue all other actes, shal bryng the cloth of England to a contynuall vent.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. ccxxxviv The wolles at Caleis, because of the warre, could haue no vent, nor be vttred.
1655 tr. C. Sorel Comical Hist. Francion iii. 70 Divers Authors of this our Age, have more ridiculously clad their names in a Roman disguise..that their books might have a better vent.
1714 tr. French Bk. of Rates 242 The Merchandizes carried there from France..lie on Hand, and cannot find a Vent or Market.
1730 in Colonial Rec. Pennsylvania (1852) III. 391 Encouragement..given to raise such Commodities that might have a constant and ready vent in Britain.
1782 S. Pegge Curialia Misc. 141 One often sees them advertised for sale; and, if bought at all, they find a vent, no doubt, at Wapping.
b. Without article.
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society > trade and finance > selling > [noun] > fact of being sold
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1564 in J. C. Tingey Rec. City of Norwich (1910) II. 332 Theseyde clothes which nowe were owte of estimation and vente.
1580 T. Tusser Fiue Hundred Pointes Good Husbandrie (new ed.) f. 19v A remedie sent, where pease lack vent.
1581 W. Stafford Compend. Exam. Complaints (1876) iii. 84 Whatsoeuer thing is rered vpon grasing, hath free vente both ouer this side and also beyond the sea, to be sold at the highest penny.
1617 F. Bacon in S. R. Gardiner Fortescue Papers (1871) 34 For the yearely makeinge of soe many tonnes of allome as..can possiblely receave vent eyther at home or abroade.
a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 118 Att these 3 Fayres..the most timely sorte of Lambes have very goode vente.
1694 J. Locke in Ld. King Life (1830) I. 383 For our books are so dear, and ill printed, that they have very little vent among foreigners.
1768 H. Walpole Lett. (1891) V. 116 Like fish that could not find vent in London.
a1797 H. Walpole Mem. George II (1847) II. vii. 228 The original caricature, which had amazing vent, was of Newcastle and Fox.
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to find or have vent
b. In phrases with verbs, as to find or have vent.
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1557–71 A. Jenkinson Early Voy. Russia & Persia (1886) I. 116 We be vncertaine what vent or sale you shall finde in Persia.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 367 They vsed in old time to gather the Incense but once a yere; as hauing little vent, and small returne, and lesse occasion to sell than now adaies.
1674 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd ii. 54 Or by only naming it hoped to procure vent or better their livelyhood.
1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry (1721) II. 62 Such Uses as you design to sell your Wood for, which you must be regulated in by the vent you have.
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