fair trade

¹

noun

1. trade carried on under a fair-trade agreement.

fair-trade

²

[ fair-treyd ]

verb (used with object)

, fair-trad·ed, fair-trad·ing.

1. to sell (a commodity) under a fair-trade agreement.

verb (used without object)

, fair-trad·ed, fair-trad·ing.

1. to sell a commodity under a fair-trade agreement.

adjective

1. subject to or resulting from a fair-trade agreement:

   fair-trade items; fair-trade prices.

fair trade

noun

1. 1. the practice of directly benefiting producers in the developing world by buying straight from them at a guaranteed price
   2. ( as modifier )

      fair-trade coffee

Other Words From

• fair-trader noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of fair trade¹

First recorded in 1715–25

Origin of fair trade²

First recorded in 1940–45

Example Sentences

Over the years, this social activism has given rise to specific demands for corporate social responsibility, sustainability, ethical consumerism, fair trade and conscious capitalism.

From Digiday

From traditional artisanal rum to the country’s first fair trade cocoa business, Haiti is building a new farm future rooted in its own traditions.

From Ozy

These luxury sheets are also fair trade certified, which means farmers and other workers get paid two to three times the industry standard.

From Popular-Science

Whole Foods is getting its organic, non-GMO, fair trade, locally sourced lunch eaten.

From The Daily Beast

For some citizens, the presence of spending money plus the narcotic of nationalism is enough to make this seem a fair trade.

From The Daily Beast

It encourages its well-heeled customers to pay extra for “fair trade” coffee.

From The Daily Beast

Is a gold ring a fair trade for 20 years of exhilarating post-collegiate freedom, adventure and growth?

From The Daily Beast

And you call that a fair trade,—your old worn coat and a forty-cent watch for his nice new coat his mother made?

From Project Gutenberg

Again, in his next chapter he specifies “Fair Trade” as the first of the “things that we must do to be saved.”

From Project Gutenberg

The same epithet is used in the phrases “a fine day” and “fine irony,” in “fair trade” and “a fair goddess.”

From Project Gutenberg

If there were a licensed poison-shop in London, they'd do a very fair trade on Sundays.'

From Project Gutenberg

I got her in fair trade from her people, who were of the Coast and whose Chilcat totem stood at the head of a salt arm of the sea.

From Project Gutenberg