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carriage trade

carriage trade noun: retail business with wealthy or upper-class customers, i.e., those who arrive in carriages.

Noun

carriage trade (uncountable)

  1. Retail business with wealthy or upper-class customers, i.e., those who arrive in carriages.
  2. (broadly, idiomatic) Wealthy or upper-class people in general.

Questions about carriage trade

What does carriage trade mean?
Carriage trade means retail business with wealthy or upper-class customers, i.e., those who arrive in carriages.
What part of speech is carriage trade?
Carriage trade is a noun.

Words near carriage trade in the dictionary

  1. carriage poles
  2. carriage return
  3. carriage returns
  4. carriage spring
  5. carriage springs
  6. carriage trade
  7. carriageable
  8. carriagebuilder
  9. carriagebuilders
  10. carriagebuilding
  11. carriageful

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