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on-trade

on-trade noun: the sale of alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises.

Noun

on-trade (uncountable)

  1. (Ireland, UK) The sale of alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises.
    • Distribution networks are particularly chaotic in the ‘on’-trade which has steadily lost ground to the ‘off’-trade. Estimates for the volumes of wines consumed in public vary wildly but now usually point down towards to 25%.1998, Pierre Spahni, Swiss Wine Market Report, Woodhead Publishing, page 56
    • The off-trade has been growing at the expense of the on-trade. Traditionally, wide choices of wine have not been available through public houses in the UK. With the growing interest in wine, this absence of good wine in on-trade establishments may have aided the growth in off-trade sales.2004, Kym Anderson, David Norman, The World's Wine Markets: Globalization at Work, Edward Elgar Publishing, page 133

Antonyms of on-trade

Questions about on-trade

What does on-trade mean?
On-trade means the sale of alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises.
What part of speech is on-trade?
On-trade is a noun.

Words near on-trade in the dictionary

  1. on-the-spot
  2. on-time
  3. on-time marker
  4. on-time markers
  5. on-topic
  6. on-trade
  7. on-train
  8. on-wiki
  9. ON.
  10. on/off
  11. ONA

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