Definition of Carriage trade

1. Noun. Trade from upper-class customers.

Generic synonyms: Commerce, Commercialism, Mercantilism

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Carriage Trade

carrel
Carrel's treatment
Carrel-Lindbergh pump
carrell
carrells
carrels
Carrere
carriage
carriages
carriageway
carriageways
carriage bolt
carriage dog
carriage house
carriage return
carriage trade (current term)
carriage wrench
carrick bend
carrick bitt
carried
carrier
carrier
carrier-free
carriers
carrier bag
carrier cell
carrier electrophoresis
carrier electrophoresis
carrier pigeon
carrier protein

Literary usage of Carriage trade

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical by John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees, Thomas Hood, John Harris (1815)
"In every point of view, therefore, is this brief sketch of the extent of the coach and carriage trade of value and importance, and, ..."

2. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine (1896)
"Perhaps the carriage trade, more than any other, has suffered by the increase of cycling. During the last two years complaints to this effect have been ..."

3. The Economic Review by Christian Social Union (Great Britain), Oxford University Branch (1905)
"The carriage trade illustrates the same thing in a somewhat different fashion. In that industry the growth of specialization has led to a sort of reversion ..."

4. Principles of City Land Values by Richard Melancthon Hurd (1903)
"An example of the effect of street railroads on carriage trade occurred in New York when the construction of the electric roads on Broadway and 23d Street ..."

5. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Tennessee by Joseph Brown Heiskell, Tennessee Supreme Court (1870)
"TW Large and H. Johnson. plaintiffs below, this testimony, as to the'carriage trade, was all excluded by the Court. We think what Jones said to Large, ..."

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