cash-and-carry

[ kash-uhn-kar-ee ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

cash-and-carry

sold or operated on a basis of cash payment for merchandise that is not delivered but removed by the purchaser

a wholesale store, esp for groceries, that operates on this basis
an operation on a commodities futures market in which spot goods are purchased and sold at a profit on a futures contract

First recorded in 1915–20

One that they cannot cash in at the bank to pay for their flats.

Crain posted a cash bond of $102.50 apiece shortly before 1:30 P.M., and they returned to the Castle Hotel.

Mister Ham in need of cash: That is something a lot of people will not believe.

Hitchcock was quick to add he didn't see the cash exchange hands, but he doesn't doubt it happened.

He pointed a pistol at a grocery checkout woman and swiped whatever cash he could into his pockets before booking it.

Were you ever arrested, having in your custody another man's cash, and would rather go to gaol, than break it?

The “Compañia General de Tabacos” lost about ₱30,000 in cash in addition to the damage done to their offices and property.

The promoters went his security and put up the cash into the bargain, and he went back to the publishing house victorious.

His wife had sold her relinquishment on the claim that he had spent thirty-five hundred dollars cash for.

It was very annoying—more than ever—to the Elder when he was required to put up twenty-five dollars in cash as a retainer.

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