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单词 small-ticket item
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small-ticket item
small ticket n. (a) U.S. Navy slang a bad conduct discharge or a dishonourable discharge (now rare); (b) colloquial (originally U.S.) used attributively of merchandise that is inexpensively priced or whose purchase would not constitute a major expense; esp. as small-ticket item; cf. big ticket n. at big adj. and adv. Compounds 2.
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1909 Our Navy (U.S.) Dec. 12/2 Have you not heard men openly boasting that they were working for..‘a small ticket, quick’?.. Discharged for bad conduct.
1918 Suppl. U.S. Naval Med. Bull. Jan. 16 Will you get into the backwaters that lead to undesirable discharge, to B.C.D., to a ‘small ticket’ at the end of your cruise?
1956 Wall St. Jrnl. 31 Dec. 1/6 Small-ticket items (toasters, small radios, mixers) probably showed a more substantial sales gain during Christmas.
1969 Institutional Investor Sept. 86/2 Furniture is a small ticket item compared to housing and automobiles.
1987 St. Petersburg (Florida) Times (Nexis) 3 May 1 i The prices of selected small-ticket goods have gone up considerably.
2009 Financial Times 23 Apr. 10 While small-ticket items such as food and clothing are rising, car sales are down 30 per cent from 2008 levels.
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