trade agreement

noun

1
: an international agreement on conditions of trade in goods and services
2
: an agreement resulting from collective bargaining

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Husted signed a bipartisan letter earlier this year urging the administration to proceed carefully while renegotiating a trade agreement with Canada and Mexico. — Bill Barrow, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2026 The moves also call into question the future of a North American trade agreement covering the United States, Canada and Mexico that is crucial to industry in all three countries. — Paul Wiseman, Arkansas Online, 23 Aug. 2026 The moves also call into question the future of a North American trade agreement covering the United States, Canada, and Mexico that is crucial to industry in all three countries. — Rob Gillies, Christian Science Monitor, 22 Aug. 2026 And both sets of allies are forming new middle-power coalitions to reduce reliance on Washington, from recent European arrangements with India to the trade agreements Japan is pursuing with Latin America. — Kurt M. Campbell, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for trade agreement

Word History

First Known Use

1749, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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The first known use of trade agreement was in 1749

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