fair-trading

present participle of fair-trade

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Verb
  • But Robert Bilkie, CEO of Sigma Investment Counselors in Northville, Michigan, said investors who reacted to April’s weakness by selling stocks would be significantly less wealthy today.
    Susan Tompor, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2025
  • But for Allen-Green and other community members supporting the project, a major preoccupation this year remains selling the three schools to more families in the neighborhood.
    Mila Koumpilova, ProPublica, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The six-team alt-league, which now has the top women’s college players marketing its product, has notably become a model for better pay since the inaugural season’s average salary of $220,000 is near the WNBA’s max base salary.
    Eric Jackson, Sportico.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • There aren’t any substantial architecture or urbanism ideas at play here, but there is a desperate attempt at marketing the services of both to an imagined audience of the young and very online.
    Kate Wagner, Curbed, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • In Ryan Coogler’s 2025 blockbuster, Sinners, Wunmi Mosaku plays a woman named Annie, who makes a living by supplying her neighbors in Clarksdale, Mississippi, with homemade medicinal cures.
    Danielle Amir Jackson, The Atlantic, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Ukrainian and Western governments have accused North Korea of supplying significant amounts of ammunition and troops to support Russia's war, while Kyiv and its NATO backers have identified China as Moscow's prime source of materiel and a vital economic lifeline.
    Leah Sarnoff, ABC News, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Fans can follow the brand’s official social media accounts and TikTok Shop for the Mug Root Beer Float Bundle, retailing for $45.
    Julia Teti, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Kelce dreamed up the sparkler alongside jewelry designer Kindred Lubeck and Artifex Fine Jewelry, which houses luxury designs retailing upwards of $33,650, as seen with their Deametra ring.
    Catherine Santino, People.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Minnesota legislators made straw purchasing a felony on the state level after the Burnsville killings, though some say the penalties need to be strengthened.
    Mara H. Gottfried, Twin Cities, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Consumers shift their purchasing patterns.
    George Calhoun, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • If National Public Radio had begun distributing Bibles and handguns, well, people would have wanted to talk and write about that, too.
    Graham Hillard, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025
  • This is how Cintas Acuario was born in the late 1980s — a label that, without any formal facilities, gained a reputation thanks to its founder’s knack for promoting and marketing his artists’ music by distributing it to small shops in the area and in Tijuana, across the Mexican border.
    Tere Aguilera, Billboard, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Cannon-Brookes wouldn’t specify whether Atlassian considered buying Google’s browser.
    Jordan Novet, CNBC, 4 Sep. 2025
  • And sometimes, buying prepared bamboo shoots in a can is the easiest way to spruce up a dish.
    Sophie Carson, jsonline.com, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • And in a world filled with junk content, where everyone is a wannabe influencer peddling their lifestyle and products, Tate’s a pretty good pick for learning how to live your life, said 21-year-old John Fitch, who spars at Betiss’ gym a few times a week.
    Will Carless, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2025
  • In the get-rich-quick case, which includes $2 million in refunds, the FTC charged several people with peddling kits and coaching systems that dealt with real estate.
    Lew Sichelman, Miami Herald, 29 Aug. 2025
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“Fair-trading.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fair-trading. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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