trade guild
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of trade guild
First recorded in 1870–75
Example Sentences
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Such an organization wouldn’t be a trade guild protecting the interests of doctors.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 5, 2019
Like many medical societies, it is primarily a trade guild centered on the finances of doctors.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 5, 2019
It was a trade guild of freemen, distinguished from medieval serfs.
From Time Magazine Archive
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His Highness commanded some seven hundred of Stuttgart's rich merchants and burghers, also each trade guild in the country, to construct at their expense a number of houses near the Erlachhof.
From A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg by Hay, Marie, Hon. (Agnes Blanche Marie)
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 Ruskin, John
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