bucket shop
短语[经] 利用顾客资金买空卖空的投机商号
词形变化
别名
释义与例句
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1.
A stockbroking firm which takes small orders from clients and takes them on its own account rather than actually transmitting them to the market. Prevalent in the US 1870s to 1920s; often set up as shop-fronts in the 1920s.
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2.
A stockbroking firm which sells stock to clients when it has an undisclosed relationship with that company or its owners.
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3.
A travel agency selling discounted airfares, usually in defiance of existing minimum fare arrangements. Now usually refers to any small cheap agency.
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4.
A legal services firm selling heavily discounted legal services and documents made in large volume from boilerplate text and clauses, sometimes as a white labelled loss leader.
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A company that sells coats of arms associated with the customer's surname, regardless of whether the customer can claim any relation to the original armiger.
政治 纹章
词汇关系
词源
bucket + shop
来源:wiktionary