FAIR-TRADE Synonyms: 41 Similar and Opposite Words

fair-trade

verb

Definition of fair-trade

as in to wholesale

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Verb

The company doesn’t wholesale its collection.

— Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 8 May 2026
Light industrial uses could include storage yards, data and information processing, medical or dental laboratories, research and development, warehouses, wholesaling or a recycling center.

— Abigail Hasebroock, Sun Sentinel, 10 Apr. 2026

Definition of wholesale

Verb

The boots, which originally retailed for $248 each, sold out quickly upon their initial December ’23 release and have gone on to fetch premium prices on the resale market.

— Riley Jones, Footwear News, 18 Aug. 2026
Her go-to sneakers, a white canvas pair from Superga that retails for less than $100 and has been spotted on stars like Julia Roberts, Lana del Ray, and Hailey Bieber.

— Ariel Wodarcyk, InStyle, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of retail

Verb

The house sells most of its Champagne in European markets, including Britain, Belgium, Italy and Spain, as well as in West Africa, with smaller volumes going to the United States and Asia, Bonnet-Gobillard said.

— ABC News, ABC News, 20 Aug. 2026
Investigators determined that multiple RVs may have been sold at Carson Pass RV in Lockeford without proper notification to their rightful owners and without completing the required Department of Motor Vehicles documentation.

— Richard Ramos, CBS News, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of sell

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How weed is marketed to youth Earlier this month, Congress passed a funding bill that included a monthlong delay to a national ban on a swath of high-inducing hemp products.

— Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 19 Aug. 2026
Rishi Advanced Aesthetics, who says the clinician's role has evolved considerably, from simply recommending treatments to helping patients navigate an enormous amount of information and separate genuine innovation from marketing.

— Laia Farran Graves, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of market

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Ukraine also launched another attack on the premises of Wildberries, Russia’s biggest online retailer, which Kyiv says helps supply the Russian military.

— ABC News, ABC News, 14 Aug. 2026
Merck, which developed the original MMR combination shot, stopped supplying single, or monovalent, vaccines against measles, mumps and rubella in the US in 2008.

— Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2026

Definition of supply

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In fact, the team’s estimate for the film’s end budget, after merchandising costs and fees, is essentially the same as one first-season episode of a half-hour comedy on a streaming network.

— Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 18 Aug. 2026
In our study, the participating retailer similarly attributed the growing performance of several accessories largely to improved cross-selling and learning about how to merchandise them effectively.

— Ayşe Çetinel, Harvard Business Review, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of merchandise

Verb

According to court records, Silvia purchased a shotgun that year and then went to Woodard's Orlando-area home, where his wife had been living since their separation two months earlier.

— CBS News, CBS News, 18 Aug. 2026
The merch was originally made for OpenAI employees to purchase on an internal site, but the team decided to make a small capsule collection available to the public.

— T.M. Brown, CNN Money, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of purchase

Verb

Schwab investors continued to buy in July despite a choppy market backdrop, lifting the Schwab Trading Activity Index, known as STAX, for a third straight month and bringing it to its highest level since January 2022.

— Deena Zaidi, CNBC, 19 Aug. 2026
Through a federal program known as 340B, created in 1992 to subsidize the treatment of low-income patients, hospitals that treat a certain percentage of low-income patients can buy drugs at a steep discount, while charging insurers or patients more.

— CNN Money, CNN Money, 19 Aug. 2026

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