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
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)
The Hoey may be described as a trade guild; but it is much more.
From The Woodlands Orchids by Boyle, Frederick
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