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  • noun UK, New Zealand A small-scale sale where people bring items to sell and buy others' items. The money raised usually goes towards charity.

Etymologies

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bring + and + buy

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Examples

  • Now they can be found at supermarkets, bring-and-buy sales, farmers 'markets, children's parties and wherever two cheerful young women have been given permission to set up a stall.

    Sugar coats this hunger for the past 2010

  • The village of Longborough in Gloucestershire is the epitome of Cotswolds sleepiness, a vision of pastoral English loveliness in which you might expect the most exciting events of the year to be the charity cricket match or the bring-and-buy sale.

    Bringing Wagner to Gloucestershire 2010

  • The Conservative Women's Organisation is now more likely to be found huddled in policy meetings with shadow cabinet members than making jam for the bring-and-buy.

    Mr Dales Diary - following on from my previous post Valleys Mam 2007

  • The Conservative Women's Organisation is now more likely to be found huddled in policy meetings with shadow cabinet members than making jam for the bring-and-buy.

    Archive 2007-04-22 Valleys Mam 2007

  • It'll be open to the general public and feature exhibition stands, a full lecture programme, machine demonstrations, computer games and challenges, bring-and-buy sale, and performances of electronic music.

    Pocket-lint 2010

  • After I've given a few pots away to friends and handed some over to the bring-and-buy brigade, we'll be down to one pot every

    Latest news, breaking news, current news, UK news, world news, celebrity news, politics news 2010

  • At a school bring-and-buy sale my mum got me a raffle ticket to win a cake.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010

  • At Thursby parish hall Joan Gate, alongside friends Eileen Wilson, Peg Eastwood and Joyce Donaldson, held a bring-and-buy sale to raise money for the Disasters Emergency Committee fund.

    News round-up 2010

  • At Thursby parish hall Joan Gate, alongside friends Eileen Wilson, Peg Eastwood and Joyce Donaldson, held a bring-and-buy sale to raise money for the Disasters Emergency Committee fund.

    News round-up 2010

  • At Thursby parish hall Joan Gate, alongside friends Eileen Wilson, Peg Eastwood and Joyce Donaldson, held a bring-and-buy sale to raise money for the Disasters Emergency Committee fund.

    News round-up 2010

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