| 单词 | behind the counter |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbehind the counter a. A banker's or money-changer's table; also, the table in a shop on which the money paid by purchasers is counted out, and across which goods are delivered. The tradesman stands behind the counter; goods are sold and money paid over the counter.In modern times the shop-counter is also used for the display of goods, but this is not implied in the name. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > shop-fittings > counter show-board1453 shop board1516 counter1688 bar1954 society > trade and finance > financial dealings > types of money-dealing > [noun] > money-changing > money changer's establishment > table or counter bank1567 counter1688 society > trade and finance > financial dealings > banking > [noun] > bank > counter bench1755 bank counter1815 counter1875 α. β. 1699 S. Garth Dispensary iii. 30 Then from the Compter he takes down the File.1731 H. Fielding Letter-writers ii. ii. 22 Do you sit behind a Desk, or stand behind a Compter?1798 Anti-Jacobin 7 May 205/1 Each spruce Nymph, from City Compters free.1826 M. R. Mitford Our Village II. 293 Mrs. Bennet, milliner..marshalled a compter full of caps and bonnets at one side of the shop.1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 259/1 He [is]..behind a Counter or Counting Table. 1701 D. Defoe True-born Englishman i. 25 Fate has but very small Distinction set Betwixt the Counter and the Coronet. 1712 J. Arbuthnot Law is Bottomless-pit ii. 6 Sometimes you would see him behind his Counter selling Broad Cloth. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. 215 [He] might walk into a shop, lay on the counter a bit of brass worth threepence, and carry off goods to the value of half a guinea. 1875 W. S. Jevons Money (1878) 252 Pay it back over the counter to the credit of his account with the same banker. 1889 Times (Weekly ed.) 31 May 7/4 In fair days he would take some £40 over the counter. < as lemmas |
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