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(Ireland, British) The sale of alcoholic drinks for consumption off the premises..
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.
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%.
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.
Use off-trade when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Off-trade means (Ireland, British) The sale of alcoholic drinks for consumption off the premises..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
Possible antonyms include on-trade.
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.
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