单词 | regratery |
释义 | † regrateryn. Obsolete. rare. The action of regrate v.1; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > illegal or immoral trading > [noun] > buying up goods for resale or monopoly regrateryc1400 regratinga1450 engrossing?1542 forestalling1548 engrossment1598 coemption1625 abbrochment1670 forestalment1861 switch dealing1957 switch deal1973 c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. iii. 83 Þise aren men..þat moste harme worcheth To þe pore peple þat parcel-mele buggen..Thei rychen þorw regraterye [v.r. regratrie; c1400 A text regratie; v.r. Regatorie] and rentes hem buggen With þat þe pore people shulde put in here wombe. 1452 in J. T. Gilbert Cal. Anc. Rec. Dublin (1889) I. 275 No hagards man..shulde not go in to the contre to byge corne in regratry of the market. a1525 Coventry Leet Bk. 25 We commaund that no fyscher..by no maner of fysche on Thursday over-nyght by way of regratry, ne on Fryday aftur till hit be nyne of the Cloke. 1592 W. Lambarde Eirenarcha (rev. ed.) i. ix. 43 Of Cappes and Liueries, forstallings, and regrataries, and of extortions committed by Victuallers. 1616 Kirkcudbright Town Council Rec. (1948) II. 184 That he sall vse na regratourie in tyme cuming. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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