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fair trade
1noun
- trade carried on under a fair-trade agreement.
fair-trade
2[ fair-treyd ]
verb (used with object)
- to sell (a commodity) under a fair-trade agreement.
verb (used without object)
- to sell a commodity under a fair-trade agreement.
adjective
- subject to or resulting from a fair-trade agreement:
fair-trade items; fair-trade prices.
fair trade
noun
- the practice of directly benefiting producers in the developing world by buying straight from them at a guaranteed price
- ( as modifier )
fair-trade coffee
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Other Words From
- fair-trader noun
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Word History and Origins
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Example Sentences
Whole Foods is getting its organic, non-GMO, fair trade, locally sourced lunch eaten.
For some citizens, the presence of spending money plus the narcotic of nationalism is enough to make this seem a fair trade.
It encourages its well-heeled customers to pay extra for “fair trade” coffee.
Is a gold ring a fair trade for 20 years of exhilarating post-collegiate freedom, adventure and growth?
And you call that a fair trade,—your old worn coat and a forty-cent watch for his nice new coat his mother made?
Again, in his next chapter he specifies “Fair Trade” as the first of the “things that we must do to be saved.”
The same epithet is used in the phrases “a fine day” and “fine irony,” in “fair trade” and “a fair goddess.”
If there were a licensed poison-shop in London, they'd do a very fair trade on Sundays.'
I got her in fair trade from her people, who were of the Coast and whose Chilcat totem stood at the head of a salt arm of the sea.
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