carriage trade
Retail business with wealthy or upper-class customers, i.e., those who arrive in carriagesRetail business with wealthy or upper-class customers, i.e., those who arrive in carriages.
Meaning
2 senses(uncountable)Retail business with wealthy or upper-class customers, i.e., those who arrive in carriages.
trade from upper-class customers
(broadly, idiomatic, uncountable)Wealthy or upper-class people in general.
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
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