carriage trade

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   trade from upper-class customers

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Questions about carriage trade

What does carriage trade mean?

carriage trade means "trade from upper-class customers".

Is carriage trade a common word?

carriage trade is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.