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
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  • The series has always featured designers who have already started selling outfits and building their brands before being on the show.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2026
  • His family is now considering whether someone will continue the produce-selling tradition.
    — Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of selling
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  • The brand is also marketing a banana nut muffin latte and fall bliss iced latte for fall.
    — Jenna Thompson, Kansas City Star, 27 Aug. 2026
  • Amazon also looked to capitalize on the demand for AI training by marketing MTurk as a data annotation source for its SageMaker service.
    — Annie Palmer, CNBC, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of marketing
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  • Hendrick Motorsports was heavily involved in the first movie, supplying cars and technical advice during filming.
    — Greg Engle, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2026
  • Among them is Elephant Butte Lake in New Mexico that’s critical for supplying water for crops in southern New Mexico, Texas and Mexico.
    — Wufei Yu, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2026
Definition of supplying
Verb
  • Momotaro Jeans incorporates up to 42 percent silk in the weft of select styles, with jeans retailing for over $700.
    — Angela Velasquez, Footwear News, 27 Aug. 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
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  • Shoppers can move from watching a demonstration to purchasing without leaving the app.
    — Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 28 Aug. 2026
  • The president first floated the idea of purchasing Greenland during his first term before reviving the proposal after his reelection.
    — Fernando Cervantes Jr, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of purchasing
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  • Instead, Goldman economists suggest that Seoul try some more immediate solutions, like helping elderly Koreans unlock their housing wealth, and better distributing the windfall from the country’s super-profitable tech firms.
    — Mia Osmonbekov, Fortune, 30 Aug. 2026
  • That year, the head trainer of the Commanders was found to have been illegally distributing oxycodone to players — an unsettling reminder of the NFL's difficult history with painkillers.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of distributing
Verb
  • Cook will be remembered for making the iPhone feel essential to everything from buying a coffee to listening to music, hitting the gym or paying a credit card bill.
    — Lisa Eadicicco, CNN Money, 31 Aug. 2026
  • And despite several headlines that consumers are buying fewer sneakers in lieu of dressier options, retailers are seeing growth in multiple segments of the men’s shoe market.
    — Stephen Garner, Footwear News, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of buying
Verb
  • When the Followers began, healthcare on the Western frontier was primitive, unsanitary and riddled with con artists peddling fake cures.
    — Audrey Dutton, ProPublica, 25 Aug. 2026
  • Their lawsuit against Jones and the 2022 verdict marked the first time he was held financially liable for peddling lies about the massacre, claiming it was faked by the government to tighten gun laws.
    — Jim Vertuno, Fortune, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of peddling
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