FAIR-TRADE AGREEMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fair-trade agreement mean? 

• FAIR-TRADE AGREEMENT (noun)
  The noun FAIR-TRADE AGREEMENT has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: FAIR-TRADE AGREEMENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAIR-TRADE AGREEMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("fair-trade agreement" is a kind of...):

agreement; understanding (the statement (oral or written) of an exchange of promises)