Значение слова "BLACK FRIDAY" найдено в 6 источниках

BLACK FRIDAY

Black Friday: translation

The Friday after the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday, considered to be the busiest retail shopping day of the year.

Example Citations:

Black Friday is the term coined for the day after Thanksgiving, traditionally the busiest shopping day of the year as retailers go from "being in the red," to making a profit, or "being in the black."

— Carolyne Park, "130 million shoppers flock to stores," Memphis Business Journal, November 25, 2005

Surrounded by hundreds of shoppers grabbing bargain-priced flat-screen television sets and portable music players early yesterday morning, Jill Mulhere was trying to figure out what happened to her shopping cart, heaped with presents, at the Best Buy store in Paramus, N.J....

''You know,'' she said, ''my brother asked me at Thanksgiving, 'Was there really all this Black Friday pandemonium when we were growing up?'''

— Tracie Rozhon, "In Annual Rite, Shoppers Mob Holiday Sales," The New York Times, November 27, 2004

Earliest Citation:

Christmas decorations around Tampa Bay started going up in late October, and business has been brisk since then. And while Friday - known as Black Friday for the legendary hordes - will be the biggest shopping day for many area stores, others ring up the greatest sales the Saturday before Christmas.

— Marilyn Marks, "Retailers expect good sales this Christmas," St. Petersburg Times, November 27, 1986

Related Words:

Christmas creep

Cyber Monday

Falloween

virtual Friday

Categories:

Retail

Time

найдено в "Англо-русском экономическом словаре"

1) бирж. черная пятница (нарицательный термин для обозначения резкого падения конъюнктуры на финансовых рынках; сам термин появился в 1873 г. и связан с тем, что биржевая паника началась именно в пятницу)

See:

exchange 2), financial market, panic 2), Black Monday, Black Thursday, Black Tuesday

2) марк. черная [прибыльная\] пятница* (день после праздника Дня благодарения (четвертый четверг ноября), когда магазины начинают предлагают к продаже товары с большой скидкой; начало рождественского сезона распродаж; по одной из версий, эпитет "черный" символизирует "прибыльность" и происходит бухгалтерского in the black)

These are some of the bargains that await shoppers on Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, when retailers lure crowds with so-called door-buster discounts.— Выгодные предложения ожидают покупателей в "Прибыльную пятницу"

See:

in the black, Christmas selling

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"черная пятница": нарицательный термин для обозначения резкого падения конъюнктуры на финансовых рынках; происходит от "черного понедельника" 24 сентября 1869 г., когда группа спекулянтов в США попыталась поставить под контроль рынок золота и вызвала финансовую панику, за которой последовала депрессия; сам термин появился в 1873 г., когда биржевая паника началась в пятницу.

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черная пятница

..Словарь экономических терминов.

найдено в "Financial and business terms"

Black Friday: translation

A precipitous drop in a financial market . The original Black Friday occurred on September 24, 1869, when prospectors attempted to corner the gold market. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary

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Black Friday ˌBlack ˈFriday noun [uncountable]

1. FINANCE Friday September 24, 1869, when a group of investors tried to take control of the US gold market and were considered to have caused a recession

2. any Friday when something bad happens:

• The latest cuts at the organization were made on what staffers referred to as Black Friday.

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Black Friday UK US noun [U]

► COMMERCE, MARKETING the Friday after Thanksgiving when stores in the US reduce the price of goods in order to attract customers who want to start their Christmas shopping: »The store was full of Black Friday shoppers chasing deals.

► Friday 24 September, 1869, when a group of people tried to control the gold market in the US and caused serious economic problems

найдено в "Investment dictionary"

Black Friday: translation

1. A day of stock market catastrophe. Originally, September 24, 1869, was deemed Black Friday. The crash was sparked by gold speculators, including Jay Gould and James Fist, who attempted to corner the gold market. The attempt failed and the gold market collapsed, causing the stock market to plummet.

2. The day after Thanksgiving in the United States. Retailers generally see an upward spike in sales and consider this to be the start of the holiday shopping season. It's common for retailers to offer special promotions and to open early to draw in customers.

1. The term "black" has been used to describe other disastrous days in financial markets. For example, on Black Tuesday, October 29, 1929, the market fell precipitously, signaling the start of the Great Depression. The largest one-day drop in stock market history occurred on Black Monday, October 19, 1987, when the Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted more than 22%.

2. The idea behind the term "Black Friday" is that this is the day in which retail stores have enough sales to put them "in the black" - an accounting expression that alludes to the practice of recording losses in red and profits in black.

найдено в "Англо-русском лингвострановедческом словаре Великобритании"

ист. "Чёрная пятница" (пятница 15 апреля 1921; день срыва забастовки солидарности и локаут горняков в результате предательства правого руководства профсоюзов железнодорожников и транспортников; против бастовавших горняков были брошены войска; ср. тж. Red Friday)

найдено в "Англо-русском словаре политической терминологии"

бирж. жарг. "черная пятница", резкое падение на биржах курса акций

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