Danish to English translations [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Business/Commerce (general) | | Danish term or phrase: julehandel | | The term involves the meaning 'the shopping done during the Christmas season'. The term does not involve that articles are on sale. |
| | | Christmas trade | Explanation:
David's answer is the normal expression, but it might also be called Christmas trade if you are looking at it from the shops' point of view.
http://politiken.dk/newsinenglish/article640589.ece
Christmas trade worst for 5 years
High Street shops experienced their worst Christmas trade in five years, according to the latest figures from Statistics Denmark
(Now don't get too sorry for them. They probably broke all previous records and were delighted five years ago...)
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Note added at 4 days (2009-11-30 16:18:34 GMT)
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Good question.
Shoppers go shopping, shop around and so on - shopkeepers might be looking at that sort of thing if they call it shopping as opposed to trade. ... Shopping might be above/below average etc. followed by a comment on what or how people were buying.
I think the shops might very well call it trading, to make just the distinction you are aksing about, but I can imagine someone saying: 'clothes sales (or whatever other sector) were high in this year's Christimas trading.'
The Sales (with reduced prices etc.) are usually called New Year sales - but no rule without exceptions of course.
Sales of toys were better than ever (or droping in favour of computer games...) Sales might not necessarily imply reduced prices. |
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  Christine Andersen
Denmark
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