| 单词 | to take up a commodity |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto take (also clap) up a commodity (a) A quantity or lot of goods sold on credit by a moneylender, which the recipient resells at a lower price in order to raise cash, usually to the same moneylender. Also in to take (also clap) up a commodity and variants: to raise cash by buying goods of this kind. Obsolete.In quot. a1652 as a mass noun in in commodity: as goods.See also a commodity of brown paper (and old ginger) n. at sense 6a(b) and the note there. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > financial dealings > borrowing money > [noun] > parcel of goods sold to raise money commodity1584 1584 T. Lodge Alarum against Vsurers f. 3 The Broker in this matter, getteth double fee of the Gentleman, treble gaine in the sale of the commoditie, and more, a thousand thankes of this diuellish Usurer. 1589 T. Nashe To Students in R. Greene Menaphon Epist. sig. **v Some deepe read Grammarians, who hauing no more learning in their scull, than will serue to take vp a commoditie..will take vpon them to be the ironicall censors of all. 1590 R. Greene Neuer too Late i. 58 If coyne want, then either to Limbo, or else clap vp a commoditie (if so much credite be left). a1652 R. Brome Mad Couple Well Match'd ii. i. sig. C3, in Five New Playes (1653) My husband..lent you the last Terme a hundred pound, which hee assign'd to me; and now I have it in Commodity. 1673 F. Kirkman Unlucky Citizen 196 I never borrowed Money or took up any Commodity of any man, but with a design to pay it. < as lemmas |
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