单词 | to raise the market |
释义 | > as lemmasto raise the market P9. to raise the market: to cause a higher price to be charged; to demand a higher price (for something). ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > fluctuation in price > [verb (intransitive)] > rise (of prices) > increase prices to raise the market1535 inflate1940 rocket1958 price-gouge1968 1535 D. Lindsay Satyre 3186 The markit raisit bene sa hie, That Prelats dochtours..Ar maryit with sic superfluitie. 1687 C. Sedley Bellamira i. i. 2 The poor Sinners of the Town complain of you; you raise the Market upon 'em. 1751 R. Paltock Life Peter Wilkins II. xxi. 270 Its all one to her with whom she [sc. a mistress] engages, so she can raise but the Market by a Change. 1821 W. Scott Pirate I. ii. 26 Sweyn Erickson had gone too far in raising the market upon Mr. Mertoun..charging the rock codfish at a penny instead of a halfpenny a-piece. 1889 Harper's Mag. Nov. 968/1 A day and a half of tropical weather..raised the market for thin underwear. 1930 Times 1 Oct. 13/1 Sir Hamilton Harty..criticized the action of the British Broadcasting Corporation as having ‘raised the market’ for orchestral players. 1963 Hispanic Amer. Hist. Rev. 43 34 These agreements raised the market for Mexican livestock, plunder, and captives. 2002 P. Groenewgen Eighteenth Cent. Econ. iii. xi. 216 The usefulness of foreign trade as a device to raise the market for agricultural produce. < as lemmas |
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