单词 | to put on the market |
释义 | > as lemmasto put (something) on the market a. The arena in which commercial dealings in a particular commodity or product are conducted; the trade in a particular commodity or product. on (also in) the market: offered for sale. to put (something) on the market: to offer for sale. Also figurative.Frequently with commodity or product specified (either attributive or with in); for common collocations, as art, land, money, property market: see the first element. See also stock-market n. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > [noun] > trade in a type of commodity trade1622 truck1638 marketa1653 society > trade and finance > selling > [adjective] > for sale to set on (or a) sale1546 vendible1552 saleable1599 venal1662 on (also in) the market1776 a1653 R. Filmer Disc. Use for Money (1678) 38 The borrowers do trade by buying and selling in the Mercat at the same prices that the owners of money do. 1737 M. Jones Let. 22 July in Misc. in Prose & Verse (1750) 346 Perhaps 'twou'd be more adviseable to consume the precious Incense, as the Dutch do their Spices, than glut the Market. 1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. i. xi. 265 There are commonly in the market only fourteen or fifteen ounces of silver for one ounce of gold. View more context for this quotation 1811 A. T. Thomson London Dispensatory ii. 21 The real Socotrine aloes, which are now scarce in the market. 1846 Sydney Morning Herald 27 May 2/7 It is a kind of concentrated gravy, the result of the boiling down of sheep and cattle for the supply of the English tallow market. 1880 L. C. Tees Rogue's Luck iv. 95 And when he is under the sod, I suppose you'll be looking out for somebody else, eh?.. If you do, remember I'm in the market. 1891 Cyclists' Touring Club Gaz. Nov. 320 The only type of air tyre on the market. 1909 R. Kaleski Austral. Settler's Compl. Guide ii. 11 I try every axe on the market, but the only two I care to use are either Plumb's or the black Kelly. 1929 H. A. A. Nicholls & J. H. Holland Text-bk. Trop. Agric. (ed. 2) ii. xii. 359 Japan with its Formosan production, still controls the market in camphor. 1964 Financial Times 31 Jan. 4/3 The development of a Sugar Market..the nature and frequency of whose price movements were unknown in living memory. 1967 New Scientist 2 Feb. 285/3 We shall soon have on the market the video-disc, about the size of a gramophone record and costing about 22 shillings. 1972 Modelworld Oct. 62/3 This is a top quality instrument..in no way comparable with the cheaper types of air brush already offered on the model market. 1988 Oxf. Econ. Papers June 259 Since they produce identical goods the firm setting the lower price captures the entire market. to put on the market 13. transitive. To cause to be in or assume a particular place or situation, in a general or figurative sense, or in phrases where the name of a thing or place stands for its purpose, as to put in hospital, to put in prison, to put on the market, to put on the stage, to put to bed, to put to school, etc. ΘΚΠ society > education > [verb (transitive)] > put to education > send to school to set to lore (also to book, to school)a1225 to put to schoola1300 to send to school, college1531 school1577 society > trade and finance > selling > sell [verb (transitive)] > expose or offer for sale cheapa1225 to set out13.. to put forthc1350 utter?c1400 market1455 offer1472 lovea1500 pitch1530 to set on (or a) sale1546 exposea1610 to bring to market1639 huckster1642 shop1688 deal1760 to put on the market1897 merchandise1926 a1300 Vision St. Paul (Jesus Oxf.) l. 213 in R. Morris Old Eng. Misc. (1872) 153 (MED) Heo beoþ iput in þilke trume Þat ne leuede nouht in godes sone. 1348 in C. Welch Hist. Pewterers of London (1902) I. 3 (MED) Also that non persone ne estraunger wirk ne bere suche maner vessel of peauter in þe Cite to sel ne it put to sale afore the mater be assaid. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1882) VIII. 323 Þe kyng of Engelond was..i-putte in ward [?a1475 anonymous translation was kepede; L. custodiendus demandatur] in þe castel of Kelyngworþe. a1400 (c1250) Floris & Blauncheflur (Egerton) (1966) 25 (MED) To scole þey were put. ?c1450 tr. Bk. Knight of La Tour Landry (1906) 117 (MED) A lady..hadde a doughter ynamed Delbora, which doughter she putte [Fr. mist] vnto scole. a1475 (?1436) in F. J. Furnivall Polit., Relig., & Love Poems (1903) 13 (MED) I was put to the Soudenys house & was made vssher of halle. 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. ccxxxix. 346 He caused the..erle of Auser to be putte in prison. 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. ccccliij To put the kinges sonne or his brother in to the possession of Scotlande. 1562 N. Winȝet Certain Tractates (1888) I. 7 Putand in the place of godly ministeris..dum doggis. 1620 Horæ Subseciuæ 106 That haue not been by any casualtie, or accident put behinde hand in the world. 1635 R. Norton tr. W. Camden Hist. Eliz. (ed. 3) iii. 374 His goods were put to port sale. 1654 Mercurius Fumigosus No. 9 88 Hee that is the Conqueror, shall that Night have a warm Clowt, lay'd to his Breech by the Lady that was fought for, and so to be put to Bed together. 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 122 Having others put over their heads. 1734 H. Fielding Don Quixote in Eng. ii. xiv. 38 Poor Man! he must be put to Bed. I shall apply some proper Remedies. 1799 J. Beekman Let. 29 Jan. in Beekman Mercantile Papers (1956) III. 1281 Mr. Dunant informed us in his last that he purposed putting your Daughter at Mrs. Graham's after the Restoration of Health to our City. 1850 J. H. Newman Serm. Var. Occasions (1881) xii. 229 He was ever putting himself in the background. 1879 M. J. Guest Lect. Hist. Eng. xxviii. 283 The landlords even strongly objected to their serfs putting their children to school. 1897 Tit-Bits 4 Dec. 172/2 If..some new patent is being put on the market, it is an opportunity that our traveller will not miss. 1919 M. Sinclair Mary Olivier ii. 18 It was the end of her birthday; Mama and Jenny were putting her to bed. 1948 Long Beach (Calif.) Press-Telegram 30 Oct. [He] reminds her constantly of her past as a chambermaid in Chicago before he put her on the stage. 1969 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 30 Jan. 3/4 Surrounded by neighboring dogs that barked at his every movement and risked getting him put in the clink for fourteen days. 1989 B. Roche Handful of Stars ii. ii, in K. Harwood First Run 242 He's already put two people in hospital. 2006 U.S. News & World Rep. 2 Oct. 16/1 If..the Democrats take back control of the House in the fall elections and put San Francisco's Nancy Pelosi in the speaker's chair, there are going to be a lot more changes. < as lemmas |
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