cash-and-carry

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   sold for cash and the customer carries it away (no delivery service)

   “cash-and-carry business”

Questions about cash-and-carry

What does cash-and-carry mean?

cash-and-carry means "sold for cash and the customer carries it away (no delivery service)".

How many syllables are in cash-and-carry?

cash-and-carry has 4 syllables: ca-sh-and--car-ry. The stress falls on "sh-and-".

Is cash-and-carry a common word?

cash-and-carry 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.