| 单词 | auction mart |
| 释义 | > as lemmasauction mart a. Any public place for buying and selling, as a marketplace, market hall, etc. (now archaic, poetic, and rhetorical in this general use); an auction room (more fully auction mart). Now usually: a shop or stall carrying on trade of a specified kind (as shoe mart, etc.).This latter use is particularly prevalent in the names of retail businesses, esp. in North American usage. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trading place > market > [noun] > market-place cheapc1000 cheaping-placec1175 cheaping?c1225 marketc1275 marketstead1373 marketplace1389 market set1552 trona1572 cross1577 vent1580 mart1593 emptory1656 market space1800 market stance1864 sale-market1883 1593 T. Churchyard Challenge 123 Schollers in scholes, and merchantes in their marts. Can ply their thrift. 1601 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor i. iv. 51 Not content To stale himselfe in all societies, He makes my house here as common as a Mart . View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) i. ii. 74 My charge was but to fetch you from the Mart Home to your house. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) iii. i. 12 You beat me at the Mart . View more context for this quotation c1616 R. C. Times' Whistle (1871) iv. 1236 Our lawes for Mammons cursed golde Like as at open mart are bought and solde. 1764 O. Goldsmith Traveller 16 The crowded mart, the cultivated plain. 1815 W. Scott Lord of Isles vi. i. 221 When breathless in the mart the couriers met. 1831 Mirror 18 435/1 It's goodbye to Wellingtons and Cossacks,..the old Shoe Mart is disposed of. 1844 H. W. Longfellow Nuremberg 14 Fountains..standing in the common mart. 1860 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. 23 458 If these two taxes..were to be set up for sale in an auction mart, the one would realize five or six times as much as the other. 1882 P. Fitzgerald Recreat. Lit. Man II. xiii. 35 This [goblet] I had seen in the window of a mart. 1960 Farmer & Stockbreeder 19 Jan. 60/3 But what did farmers do? They sent all their ropy cows to F[atstock] M[arketing] C[orporation] and flogged the best in the auction mart. 1971 House & Garden Sept. 26/4 Tile mart. The choicest range of tiles... Visit our Showroom. 1993 Canad. Living Sept. 23/2 The A & P chain, as well as Dominion, Ultra Mart and Miracle Mart..are providing shoppers with ‘affinity’ or ‘loyalty’ cards. < as lemmas |
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