fair-trade agreement

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noun

an agreement or contract between a manufacturer and a retailer to sell a branded or trademarked product at no less than a specific price: legally prohibited after 1975.

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Origin of fair-trade agreement

First recorded in 1935–40

Words nearby fair-trade agreement

fair shake, fair-spoken, fair territory, fair to middling, fair trade, fair-trade agreement, fair-trade law, fair use, Fairview, Fairview Heights, Fairview Park

How to use fair-trade agreement in a sentence

Even internally in the House, women are not getting their fair shake.
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Vicky Ward was a contributing editor to Vanity Fair for 11 years.
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Frustrating as regulars find these fair-weather exercise interlopers, they were also all beginners once, he says.
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Its graceful hotels and beautiful restaurants are totally dependent on the tourist trade.
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Perhaps it always seems that way at the time, but surely we face our fair share right now.
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Finally, let me ask the general reader to put aside all prejudice, and give both sides a fair hearing.
God and my Neighbour|Robert Blatchford
Grandmamma sits in her quaint arm-chair— Never was lady more sweet and fair!
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He was tall and of familiar figure, and the firelight was playing in the tossed curls of his short, fair hair.
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Mary is fair as the morning dew— Cheeks of roses and ribbons of blue!
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May looked along at the dimpled grace, And then at the saint-like, fair old face, “How funny!”
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