fair-trading

Definition of fair-tradingnext
present participle of fair-trade
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Verb
  • McVay selling the Simpson pick a little more on Thursday night wouldn’t have changed Stafford’s approach to the coming season one bit.
    Zak Keefer, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Looking for a way to cope, Shemmeld bought a secondhand ice cream truck for about $17,500 and began selling treats in his spare time.
    Kelly McGreal, FOXNews.com, 26 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • The public school won its first lawsuit against K12, settling with the private company in 2015, and as a result, K12 had to stop marketing its Florida Virtual Academy/Program and its acronym FLVA/P, which the public virtual school said was too similar to its name and FLVS acronym.
    Annie Martin, The Orlando Sentinel, 2 May 2026
  • Toronto is marketing itself as Canada’s team, which will boost sponsorship and local media revenue for the club.
    Kurt Badenhausen, Sportico.com, 1 May 2026
Verb
  • The plant is expected to start supplying fertilizers to Latin American markets by early 2029, offering some respite to a region that is critical to global crop exports yet dependent on fertilizer imports.
    Natasha Bracken, semafor.com, 28 Apr. 2026
  • The station, northeast of Ramallah, is a vital water hub, supplying around 100,000 Palestinians across more than 20 communities.
    Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 28 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • In 1981, the company tried to boost business by offering one-stop financial services that pulled its focus from retailing.
    Domenica Bongiovanni, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026
  • For perspective, the regular Ryzen 9 9950X3D was originally priced at $699, but is currently retailing for $675 on Amazon.
    Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 8 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • The initial version of Bacon and DeGraaf’s measure would have prohibited law enforcement from purchasing people’s personal data from third-party brokers without a warrant.
    Seth Klamann, Denver Post, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Denver artist Reed Weimer and a group of like-minded friends stepped in, purchasing the property in 2016.
    Kevin Strong, CBS News, 30 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • The new version is made by the original producer, Ecosse Films, and Masterpiece PBS in association with Northern Ireland Screen and Banijay Rights, which is distributing the six-part series internationally.
    Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 30 Apr. 2026
  • For a large, thick cast-iron skillet, electric burners are terrible for evenly distributing heat and keeping oil hot.
    Jack Hennessy, Outdoor Life, 29 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • In early April, Ulta CEO Kecia Steelman told Yahoo Finance that the company is seeing more consumers buying hair treatment products as part of the GLP-1 craze.
    Laya Neelakandan, CNBC, 2 May 2026
  • Though their niche market is pregnant women, non-moms are buying the scrubs, too, apparently for the comfort factor.
    Lisa Gutierrez May 1, Kansas City Star, 1 May 2026
Verb
  • Located in the heart of the Stockyards, Hotel Drover, an Autograph Collection hotel, is in prime position for soaking up the city’s Old West spirit in the form of cattle drives, honky-tonks, and historic shops peddling all manner of Western gear.
    Regan Stephens, Travel + Leisure, 24 Apr. 2026
  • However, Dunlap isn’t peddling get-rich-quick schemes.
    Maximilian Brichta, The Conversation, 22 Apr. 2026
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“Fair-trading.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fair-trading. Accessed 4 May. 2026.

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