grey market

英 [ˌɡreɪ ˈmɑːkɪt]

美 [ˌɡreɪ ˈmɑːrkɪt]

n.  灰市，水货市场(未经公司授权而进口并销售其产品的体制); (统称)老年顾客，老年客户

经济

牛津词典

noun

• 灰市，水货市场（未经公司授权而进口并销售其产品的体制）
  a system in which products are imported into a country and sold without the permission of the company that produced them
• （统称）老年顾客，老年客户
  old people, when they are thought of as customers for goods

柯林斯词典

in AM, use 美国英语用 gray market


• N-SING 灰市，水货市场（经非正式渠道购买商品再以低于市价的价格售卖出去）
  Grey marketgoods are bought unofficially and then sold to customers at lower prices than usual.
  1. Grey-market perfumes and toiletries are now commonly sold by mail.
     水货香水和化妆品现在常常通过邮购方式售卖。
• N-SING （证券）灰色市场，暗盘市场（指公开发行前将股票售给投资人）
  Grey marketshares are sold to investors before they have been officially issued.
  1. At one point last week shares in the grey market touched 230p.
     上周，灰市上的股票价格一度高达230便士。

英英释义

noun

• an unofficial market in which goods are bought and sold at prices lower than the official price set by a regulatory agency
  Synonym:gray market

双语例句

• He has asked the Justice Department to investigate the grey market, a step that will treat a symptom of the shortage but not its cause.
  他下令让司法部门调查灰色市场，这有助于缓解药物缺乏，然而还不能根除。
• Even though GM does not officially sell Hummers in China, a booming grey market has developed.
  尽管通用并未正式在华销售悍马，一个繁荣的灰色市场却已经兴起。
• According to iSuppli, the grey market could peak at 192m units in 2012 as global branded handset makers are expected to respond with new models in emerging markets.
  isuppli表示，随着国际品牌手机制造商在新兴市场推出新机型对抗翻版手机，灰色市场的规模预计将在2012年见顶，达到1.92亿部。
• Grey market handsets are devices lacking some or all measures of legitimacy such as licences, product certification, intellectual property or security IDs.
  灰色市场手机缺乏部分或所有合法性标志，如许可证、产品认证、知识产权或安全识别码。
• The grey game model in the grey market price, which multi-farmer have competition relations, is first established.
  建立了公司和多个农户在灰色市场价格下多个农户具有竞争关系下的灰博弈模型，分析了各种博弈结果下的灰色收益。
• The manufacturers hope production in India will help them gain political capital in the country, and comes after India last year started to crack down on Chinese-made grey market handsets.
  这些中国制造商希望，在印度进行生产，将有助于他们在该国获得政治资本。去年印度开始整治中国制造的灰色市场手机。
• UPDATE: The ratio of Asian Americans in Soho dropped visibly Sunday after Chinese customs officials were reported to be confiscating grey market iPhones.
  更新：有报道称，中国的海关人员正在收缴灰色市场的iPhone。在那之后，周日在Soho区的亚裔美国人比例有了明显下降。
• The central bank's recent liberalization of regulations on bank lending rates was in part an attempt to address the fact that a large proportion of the economy's financing activity happens in this grey or black market.
  中国央行不久前放松对银行放贷利率的监管在一定程度上是试图应对一个事实，即中国经济中的融资活动有很大一部分发生在这个灰色或黑色市场。
• The sleek tablet device officially became available only in the US last weekend but some mainland China and Hong Kong stores started selling "grey market" imports of the iPad at the start of the week.
  这款时尚的平板设备上周末才在美国正式上市，但本周初，中国内地和香港一些商店已开始销售“灰色市场”进口ipad。
• With continuously development of China economy and fast growth of Chinese elderly people, with enhancing of buying power of elderly people, with constant changing of consuming conceptions of elderly people, Chinese grey market will further grow.
  随着经济的不断发展，老年人口的快速增加，老年人购买力的逐渐增强和消费观念的改变，我国老年市场还将进一步扩大，开发老年市场极具潜力。