Zollverein
Americannoun
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(in the 19th century) a union of German states for the maintenance of a uniform tariff on imports from other countries, and of free trading among themselves.
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any similar union or arrangement between a number of states; customs union.
noun
Etymology
Origin of Zollverein
1835–45; < German, equivalent to Zoll custom, duty, tariff + Verein union
Example Sentences
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After the failure of the Frankfurt Assembly, momentum for German unification resumed with the mounting success of the Zollverein, a customs union formed by Prussia in 1834.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
Built at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, the Zollverein mine cemented Germany’s place as a coal behemoth.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 4, 2022
In the German lands, it was not until the establishment of the Zollverein, a customs union, in 1834 that trade could flow freely enough to encourage industrial growth in earnest.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020
Zollverein is a symbol of Germany’s transition away from fossil fuels toward renewable energy—a program called the Energiewende that aims to have 80 percent of the country’s energy generated from renewables by 2050.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 5, 2017
Werner Pfennig grows up three hundred miles northeast of Paris in a place called Zollverein: a four-thousand-acre coal- mining complex outside Essen, Germany.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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