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Definition: Cash-and-carry |
Cash-and-carryAdjective1. Sold for cash and the customer carries it away (no delivery service); "cash-and-carry business". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Business | Their large presentation areas, which offer complete room designs combinations, meet the present trend for "shopping as a fun thing to do." The market leader is the Swedish cash-and-carry chain IKEA with a good dozen outlets in Germany. (references) | |
Economic History | Ukraine | Since 1999, local companies have developed 14 cash-and-carry centers in Kyiv only. (references) |
Ukraine | Other popular Ukrainian cash-and-carry chains are Fozzy, Rainford, Le Fourchette, and Maxi. (references) | |
India | It does not allow 100 percent foreign direct investment in retailing, except for cash-and-carry business models. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Cash-and-carry" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 87.50% of the time. "Cash-and-carry" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 87.5% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (singular) | 12.5% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 8 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "cash-and-carry"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 现金'运载. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 현금 그리 나르십시". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ash-and-carrycay продажа за наличный расчет без доставки на дом. (various references) hämtpris (cash-and-carry price). (various references) ที่จ่ายเป็นเงินส". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-a-c-c-d-h-n-r-r-s-y" | |
-4 letters: handcars, sandarac. | |
-5 letters: anarchs, anarchy, canards, canchas, cascara, chadars, darshan, dharnas, handcar, sardana. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 61 73 68 2D 61 6E 64 2D 63 61 72 72 79 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01100001 01110011 01101000 00101101 01100001 01101110 01100100 00101101 01100011 01100001 01110010 01110010 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C a s h - a n d - c a r r y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0061 0073 0068 002D 0061 006E 0064 002D 0063 0061 0072 0072 0079 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3767857415678070156967848491 |
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