| 单词 | high change |
| 释义 | > as lemmashigh change high change n. (also with capital initials) now historical the time of greatest activity in a mercantile exchange (cf. change n. 2); the exchange itself at such a time (cf. sense A. 16). ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [noun] > traffic in stocks and shares > (sudden or great) activity high change1656 movement1847 flurry1876 boomlet1880 1656 R. Fletcher Poems in Ex Otio Negotium 191 Her breech rings high Change and she must away. 1685 Rampant Alderman i. 5 Here he comes, and Company with him: 'Tis high Change time, and the place will fill presently. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 69. ¶1 I look upon High-Change to be a great Council, in which all considerable Nations have their Representatives. 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour II. 39/1 The Old Clothes Exchange, like other places known by the name..has its daily season of ‘high change’. 1854 G. G. Foster Fifteen Minutes around N.Y. iii. 16 But at this particular hour of the day—this ‘High Change’, as it is called par excellence—the millionaires and magnates of the city..meet here. 1913 Austral. Mining Standard 4 Dec. 502/2 After the high water mark had been touched at High 'Change, lower prices were accepted in the Vestibule. 1919 G. Bigwood Cotton (new ed.) viii. 103 The ‘high change’ at Shawe' s is about six, and at eight o'clock every person must quit the house, as no liquor is ever served out after that hour. 2012 G. Boyce in G. Harlaftis et al. World's Key Industry vii. 117 ‘High change’, that is, freight transacting, occurred between 11.30 and 11.45 and from 3.45 to 4.00 each day. < as lemmas |
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