bucket shop

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  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. derogatory,obsolete
  2. A stockbroking firm which sells stock to clients when it has an undisclosed relationship with that company or its owners. derogatory
  3. A travel agency selling discounted airfares, usually in defiance of existing minimum fare arrangements. Now usually refers to any small cheap agency. dated
  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.
  5. 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.

词形变化

bucket shops plural bucketshop alternative

词汇关系

相关词
wirehouse

词源

bucket + shop
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