trade guild
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of trade guild
First recorded in 1870–75
Example Sentences
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Like many medical societies, it is primarily a trade guild centered on the finances of doctors.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 5, 2019
Such an organization wouldn’t be a trade guild protecting the interests of doctors.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 5, 2019
It was a trade guild of freemen, distinguished from medieval serfs.
From Time Magazine Archive
And the above-named penalty of confiscation of goods should of course be enforced only against dishonest members of the trade guild.
From Time and Tide by Weare and Tyne Twenty-five Letters to a Working Man of Sunderland on the Laws of Work by John Ruskin
Its charter retained many of the aspects of the medieval trade guild: power to purchase lands, to sue and be sued, to make by- laws, and to punish offenders against them by fine or imprisonment.
From Our Legal Heritage : 600-1776 King Aethelbert - King George III by S. A. Reilly
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