regrate

¹ American  

[ri-grayt] / rɪˈgreɪt /

verb (used with object)

regrated, regrating

1. to buy up (grain, provisions, etc.) in order to sell again at a profit in or near the same market.

2. to sell again (commodities so bought); retail.

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regrate ² American  

[ri-grayt] / rɪˈgreɪt /

verb (used with object)

regrated, regrating

1. to dress or tool (existing stonework) anew.

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regrate British  

/ rɪˈɡreɪt /

verb

1. to buy up (commodities) in advance so as to raise their price for profitable resale

2. to resell (commodities so purchased); retail

3. building trades to redress the surface of (hewn stonework)

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Other Word Forms

• regrater
  noun

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Etymology

Origin of regrate¹

1400–50; late Middle English regraten < Old French regrater, perhaps equivalent to re- re- + grater to scrape ( see grate ²)

Origin of regrate²

1720–30; < French regratter, equivalent to re- re- + gratter to grate ²

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

regrate regrated regrating

The certantie understand, the said Maister George tooke his leave of Kyle, and that with the regrate of many.

From The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) by David Laing

To regrate was to buy up in the market and sell again in the same market at an advanced price.

From The History of London by Sir Walter Besant

And in the xvj day of March the kyng ordeyned that no man schulde gon ought of the citee of London be water no be londe to regrate ony Hoc Ao concessit civib’ Londo’.vitaile.

From A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483 Written in the Fifteenth Century, and for the First Time Printed from MSS. in the British Museum by Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas

Such corners, if completely successful, would have the public at their mercy; luckily they rarely are; the difficulty, in fact, begins when you begin to regrate.

From Popular Law-making by Frederic Jesup Stimson

No one may forestall or regrate, that is, buy at one price and sell at a higher price in the same locale.

From Our Legal Heritage June 2011 (Sixth) Edition by S. A. Reilly

Fish, destruction of to enhance price made criminal in 1357;   universally regrated in American markets;   may not be carried out of England.

From Popular Law-making by Frederic Jesup Stimson

Milk universally forestalled and regrated in American markets.

From Popular Law-making by Frederic Jesup Stimson

We regrated that the prettiest machine of all was broken; wheir was to be sein wtin a little bounds above 300 spouts sending furth water and that in sundry formes.

From Publications of the Scottish History Society, Volume 36 Journals of Sir John Lauder Lord Fountainhall with His Observations on Public Affairs and Other Memoranda 1665-1676 by Lord John Lauder Fountainhall

The mediæval economist believed in the externality of relations; he prosecuted for the offenses of forestalling and regrating the man who would make a profit by merely changing things in place.

From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Boyd H. Bode

And forestalling, regrating, and engrossing were things early recognized as criminal in England, and these statutes embody much of what is sound in the present legislation against trusts.

From Popular Law-making by Frederic Jesup Stimson

As usual many other causes but the right one were put forth, and the old accusations of monopoly, forestalling, and regrating were heard again.

From A Short History of English Agriculture by W. H. R. (William Henry Ricketts) Curtler

Leiter's Chicago corner in wheat, Sully's corner in cotton, were almost perfect examples of engrossing, but failed when the regrating began.

From Popular Law-making by Frederic Jesup Stimson

Rusby was heavily fined, but, on appeal, the court was equally divided as to whether engrossing, forestalling and regrating were still offences at common law.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" by Various

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