sale or return

sale or return — 慣用語

慣用語

sale or return

idiom

A commercial arrangement in which a retailer takes goods from a supplier and may send back any items that do not sell within a set period; the retailer pays only for what is actually sold.

寄售制

Eri runs a small bookshop and takes most new novels on a sale or return basis, so she only pays for what sells.

Under the sale or return agreement, any unsold winter jackets can be returned to the warehouse by the end of March.