cash-and-carry

1. 1.

   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 and divides as ca-sh-and--car-ry under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

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.