black friday

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Definition von black friday im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch: Any Friday actually darkened by catastrophe; A Friday falling on the 13th day of the month (and therefore doubly ill-omened); The day after Thanksgiving Day, generally regarded as the first day of the Christmas season, and the busiest shopping day of the year. (Although this usage may also very possibly originate in Etymology 1); The anniversary of a number of catastrophic or unfortunate historical events originally occurring on a Friday; Day (Sept. 24, 1869) when plunging gold prices precipitated a U.S. stock-market panic. An attempt by Jay Gould and James Fisk to corner the market in gold and drive up its price depended on preventing the sale of government gold, an arrangement assured through the two men's political influence. When Pres. Ulysses S. Grant heard of the scheme, he ordered the government to sell $4 million in gold, which caused the price to drop and produced a panic selling of other stocks; Any Friday on which a public disaster has occurred, as: In England, December 6, 1745, when the news of the landing of the Pretender reached London, or May 11, 1866, when a financial panic commenced; In the United States, September 24, 1869, and September 18, 1873, on which financial panics began
Black Fridays: plural form of Black Friday

black friday

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black Fri·day

bläk fraydi

/ˈblak ˈfrīdē/ /ˈblæk ˈfraɪdiː/

() By ancient superstition Friday is an ill-omened day.

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