Off-trade
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Off-trade is a noun meaning (Ireland, British) The sale of alcoholic drinks for consumption off the premises.
Meaning
(Ireland, British) The sale of alcoholic drinks for consumption off the premises.
Example Sentences
Distribution networks are particularly chaotic in the ‘on’-trade which has steadily lost ground to the ‘off’-trade. Estimates for the volumes of wines consumed in public vary wildly but now usually point down towards to 25%.
Lora Jones (27 March 2018), “Pubs in danger: Six charts on how the British drink”, in BBC News, BBC The volume of beer sold in supermarkets and off-licences (off-trade) in the UK topped the volume sold in pubs, clubs and restaurants (on-trade) for the first time in 2014.
The off-trade has been growing at the expense of the on-trade. Traditionally, wide choices of wine have not been available through public houses in the UK. With the growing interest in wine, this absence of good wine in on-trade establishments may have aided the growth in off-trade sales.
Antonyms for off-trade
Common opposites include on-trade.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include on-trade, barkeeping, trade, closeout, offset, streetwalking.
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