| 单词 | trading up |
| 释义 | > as lemmastrading up C1. With following adverb, forming nouns corresponding to phrasal verbs, as trading down, trading in, trading up. ΚΠ 1905 Motor Age 9 Feb. 119/2 The ‘trading in’ of old cars. 1943 Surv. Current Business Sept. 5/1 Trading up—the tendency to buy higher quality and hence higher-priced goods..—is an important factor in producing the large dollar volume being recorded. 1976 Times 6 Nov. 18/8 When prices increase..there is a strong tendency to..buying in smaller quantities or items of poorer quality. This is known in advertising jargon as ‘trading down’. 2007 Irish Times (Nexis) 1 Feb. (Property section) 6 Trading down is a relatively new phenomenon. Previously people stayed on in the family home until it fell apart around them. 2010 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 18 Sept. (Traveller section) 3 What we are seeing is a significant amount of trading up. < as lemmas |
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