fair-trading

verb

present participle of fair-trade
as in selling

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fair-trading
  1. selling
  2. marketing
  3. supplying
  4. retailing
  5. purchasing
  6. distributing
  7. buying
  8. peddling
Verb
  • Francesca Breccia’s Coccinelle Film Sales is handling the film and will start selling it to international buyers during Busan’s Asian Contents & Film Market.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Although the tapes won’t be part of the planned auction, Littleton is going forward with selling previously unpublished photos of the band, studio material, set lists, a tour parka, instruments the band owned, and other items.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of selling
Verb
  • The dealer and his art gallery have been barred by a judge in New York from selling or marketing a collection of art at the center of a $2 million dispute.
    — News Desk, Artforum, 2 Oct. 2026
  • What happens from the dock to the storefront is the brand; everything else is marketing.
    — Allan Malcolm, Forbes.com, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of marketing
Verb
  • In turn, maneuvers are the living afterimages of protocol, supplying empirical evidence of how operations played out.
    — Sophie Landres, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Conversely, the narrator’s body keeps supplying experiences that resist any adjudication.
    — Zain Khalid, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of supplying
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  • Prices are at the lower spectrum of designer collections, with shirts retailing from about 400–450 euros and jackets from 1,000 to 1,200 euros.
    — Miles Socha, Footwear News, 17 Sep. 2026
  • The 35 mm watch comes in either platinum or a silvered 18-karat Breguet gold, retailing for $203,300 and $184,800, respectively, and joins the house’s permanent collection.
    — Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 26 June 2026
Definition of retailing
Verb
  • Other factors included stubbornly high oil prices and the purchasing managers’ index report hitting its highest level in more than four years.
    — Sawdah Bhaimiya,Sean Conlon, CNBC, 25 Sep. 2026
  • If the council votes to declare the land surplus, there would be a 60-day period during which interested parties could express their interest in purchasing the land, followed by a 90-day period of negotiations.
    — Jennah Pendleton, Sacbee.com, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of purchasing
Verb
  • The news organizations take turns filming the president's activities -- rotating in alphabetical order by network name -- and distributing that footage to the other members.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 28 Sep. 2026
  • In Long Beach, where waves slammed into the seawall and homes, crews have been reinforcing portions of the boardwalk and are distributing sandbags.
    — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2026
Definition of distributing
Verb
  • In the current market, buying more is not necessarily the answer; buying better is.
    — Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 28 Sep. 2026
  • The American Dream, in this sense, moved from production to consumption, from homesteaders growing crops to homeowners buying appliances.
    — Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of buying
Verb
  • Teachers union rivals accused of peddling 'lies' about NY school choice plan.
    — , FOXNews.com, 15 Sep. 2026
  • The 58th annual fall fest returned to downtown Frankfort, offering live entertainment, carnival rides, food booths, crafters peddling their wares and Sunday’s parade.
    — Jim Dudlicek, Chicago Tribune, 6 Sep. 2026
Definition of peddling
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