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trade guild

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noun

  1. a medieval guild composed of tradesmen.


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 Ruskin, John

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)

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