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
There exists no such thing as a trade guild, or company, nor any restraint of a similar nature.
From The slave trade, domestic and foreign Why It Exists, and How It May Be Extinguished by H. C. (Henry Charles) Carey
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