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rag trade

破烂贸易,布衣贸易,布匹贸易,褴褛贸易

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Slang.

    • : the garment, clothing, or fashion industry.

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Examples

  • Then Ziegler tosses the buff LaBeouf around like a rag doll.

  • Its graceful hotels and beautiful restaurants are totally dependent on the tourist trade.

  • Dance instructors run a lucrative trade offering private lessons to couples before their wedding receptions, typically the tango.

  • Rebels in Africa trade in children to fund their conflicts and obtain child soldiers.

  • The Canterbury Tales was, Strohm writes, “one of the volumes around which the new trade would organize itself.”

  • The result of the restoration of trade, banking, and credit to earlier and more normal conditions has been steadily apparent.

  • The doctrine of international free trade, albeit the most conspicuous of its applications, was but one case under the general law.

  • But they have tied their credit system in the bonds of narrow banking laws and their trade in those of a cramping tariff.

  • So far we have not made great progress in securing Europe's Latin-American trade.

  • Soon after its cultivation began in France, Spain, and Portugal, the tobacco trade was farmed out.