cash-and-carry

[kash-uhn-kar-ee]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

sold for cash payment and no delivery service.
operated on such a basis.
a cash-and-carry business.

cash-and-carry

adjective

sold or operated on a basis of cash payment for merchandise that is not delivered but removed by the purchaser

noun

a wholesale store, esp for groceries, that operates on this basis
an operation on a commodities futures market in which spot goods are purchased and sold at a profit on a futures contract

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Word History and Origins

Origin of cash-and-carry¹

First recorded in 1915–20

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Example Sentences

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These enablers "can't be bought in a hurry at the local cash-and-carry" as one European politician put it to me.

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And within the narrow formal range of cash-and-carry goods that art fairs were conceived to accommodate, there’s some variety.

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The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports Hardy was credited with “rethinking the lumber business in the late 1950s with a cash-and-carry approach focused on professional contractors and builders.”

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The logo of Assai, cash-and-carry division of Brazilian retailer GPA SA, is pictured next to the Brazilian national flag in Sao Paulo, Brazil January 11, 2017.

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This makes sense, too: It’s a cash-only operation, and there’s famously no cash register, so he runs the cash-and-carry operation out of his pockets.

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cash account cash audit

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