soccer association football | a football game in which two teams of players try to kick or head a ball into the opponents' goal |
trade craft | the skilled practice of a practical occupation, he learned his trade as an apprentice |
association | the act of consorting with or joining with others, you cannot be convicted of criminal guilt by association |
trade | the commercial exchange (buying and selling on domestic or international markets) of goods and services, Venice was an important center of trade with the East, they are accused of conspiring to constrain trade |
fair trade | trade that is conducted legally |
fair trade | trade that satisfies certain criteria on the supply chain of the goods involved, usually including fair payment for producers, often with other social and environmental considerations |
free trade | international trade free of government interference |
North American Free Trade Agreement NAFTA | an agreement for free trade between the United States and Canada and Mexico, became effective in for ten years |
trade patronage | the business given to a commercial establishment by its customers, even before noon there was a considerable patronage |
carriage trade | trade from upperlass customers |
barter swap swop trade | an equal exchange, we had no money so we had to live by barter |
horse trade horse trading | the swapping of horses (accompanied by much bargaining) |
deal trade business deal | a particular instance of buying or selling, it was a package deal, I had no further trade with him, he's a master of the business deal |
slave trade slave traffic | traffic in slaves, especially in Black Africans transported to America in the th to th centuries |
protection trade protection | the imposition of duties or quotas on imports in order to protect domestic industry against foreign competition, he made trade protection a plank in the party platform |
restraint of trade | any act that tends to prevent free competition in business |
tradeoff trade-off | an exchange that occurs as a compromise, I faced a tradeoff between eating and buying my medicine |
packrat pack rat trade rat bushytail woodrat Neotoma cinerea | any of several bushy-tailed rodents of the genus Neotoma of western North America, hoards food and other objects |
commodity trade good good | articles of commerce |
National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations NASDAQ | a computerized data system to provide brokers with price quotations for securities traded over the counter |
seaway sea lane ship route trade route | a lane at sea that is a regularly used route for vessels |
stock-in-trade | any equipment constantly used as part of a profession or occupation, friendliness is the salesman's stock in trade |
World Trade Center WTC twin towers | twin skyscrapersstories high in New York City, built feet tall into , destroyed by a terrorist attack on September , |
association area association cortex | cortical areas that are neither motor or sensory but are thought to be involved in higher processing of information |
association connection connexion | the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination, conditioning is a form of learning by association |
free association | a thought process in which ideas (words or images) suggest other ideas in a sequence |
associationism association theory | (psychology) a theory that association is the basic principle of mental activity |
trade book trade edition | a book intended for general readership |
fair-trade agreement | an agreement (illegal in the United States) between the manufacturer of a trademarked item of merchandise and its retail distributors to sell the item at a price at or above the price set by the manufacturer |
trade bill | a statute that would regulate foreign trade |
fair-trade act | formerly a state law that protected manufacturers from priceutting by allowing them to set minimum retail prices for their merchandise, eliminated by the United States Congress in |
trade magazine | a magazine published for and read by members of a particular trade group |
trade barrier import barrier | any regulation or policy that restricts international trade |
embargo trade embargo trade stoppage | a government order imposing a trade barrier |
trade policy national trading policy | a government's policy controlling foreign trade |
trade secret | a secret (method or device or formula) that gives a manufacturer an advantage over the competition |
trade-last | a compliment that I heard about you that I offer to trade for a compliment you have heard about me |
trade name brand name brand marque | a name given to a product or service |
business cycle trade cycle | recurring fluctuations in economic activity consisting of recession and recovery and growth and decline |
combination in restraint of trade | (law) any monopoly or contract or combination or conspiracy intended to restrain commerce (which are illegal according to antitrust laws of the United States) |
association | (ecology) a group of organisms (plants and animals) that live together in a certain geographical region and constitute a community with a few dominant species |
Kaplan Group Association of Islamic Groups and Communities Caliphate State | a Turkish terrorist group of fundamentalist Muslims with ties to al-Qaeda that operates in Germany, seeks the violent overthrow of the Turkish government and the establishment of an Islamic nation modeled on Iran |
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam LTTE Tamil Tigers Tigers World Tamil Association World Tamil Movement | a terrorist organization in Sri Lanka that began inas a student protest over the limited university access for Tamil students, currently seeks to establish an independent Tamil state called Eelam, relies on guerilla strategy including terrorist tactics that target key government and military personnel, the Tamil Tigers perfected suicide bombing as a weapon of war |
Orange Order Association of Orangemen | a Protestant political organization in Northern Ireland |
Ulster Defence Association UDA | the major Protestant paramilitary group in Northern Ireland, responsible for bombing the homes of Catholics and for criminal racketeering and selling drugs |
association | a formal organization of people or groups of people, he joined the Modern Language Association |
apparel industry garment industry fashion industry fashion business rag trade | makers and sellers of fashionable clothing |
United States Trade Representative US Trade Representative | the executive agency that administers the President's policies on international trade |
union labor union trade union trades union brotherhood | an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer, you have to join the union in order to get a job |
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh National Volunteers Association | an all-male organization begun in to foster nationalism in India's Hindus |