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guild

/gild/US // gɪld //UK // (ɡɪld) //

公会,行会,协会,公社

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an organization of persons with related interests, goals, etc., especially one formed for mutual aid or protection.
    • : any of various medieval associations, as of merchants or artisans, organized to maintain standards and to protect the interests of its members, and that sometimes constituted a local governing body.
    • : Botany. a group of plants, as parasites, having a similar habit of growth and nutrition.

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Examples

  • Only 10% of women of color who work in the entertainment industry belong to a union, a guild or a trade organization.

  • Dozens of top members from the Times and some guild members from Reuters have begun talking to labor attorney Arthur Schwartz to explore options opposing this increase.

  • There’s a lingering perception in America that apprenticeships are the province of construction and building trades, or even medieval guilds like smithing and glass-blowing.

  • Inside the guild, men in caps and long gowns sit in twos, weaving together in small rooms.

  • Online he was a guild leader, delivering rousing speeches to fellow gamers.

  • While The Rock is reportedly a registered Republican, he is also presumably a member of a union—the Screen Actors Guild.

  • From being a paid-up member of the Drinkers Guild of America?

  • “We did not help the Germans,” snaps Kent Nadbornik, the chairman of the Finnish Jewish Veterans Guild.

  • The king's statue was again set up in Guild hall, London, and the states arms taken down.

  • In order to become a master, a workman had to produce a masterpiece, which was always dedicated to the saint of his guild.

  • The Collahuayas of Peru were a guild of itinerant quacks and magicians, who never remained permanently in one spot.

  • I said the Guild of St. Wilfrid—that's our servers' guild, you know—was absolutely in favour of defiance, open defiance.

  • Made for the Guild of Armourers, from the first day on which it was set up it has been beloved.