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bread trade

bread trade noun: the business of buying and selling bread, during the Stalinist era.

Noun

bread trade

  1. (Russia, historical) The business of buying and selling bread, during the Stalinist era.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bread, trade.
    • Bakers still complain that there has been no midsummer bulge in the bread trade.1922, T.W. Knaff, Northwestern Miller, page 166
    • Unless a desperate effort be at once made to reconstruct the present loose system of making bread, too often carried on in some of our bakeries, the bulk of the bread trade is destined to drift gradually into the hands of female bakers.2008, Robert Wells, Modern Practical Bread Baker, page 131

Questions about bread trade

What does bread trade mean?
Bread trade means the business of buying and selling bread, during the Stalinist era.
What part of speech is bread trade?
Bread trade is a noun.

Words near bread trade in the dictionary

  1. bread tags
  2. bread ticket
  3. bread tickets
  4. bread tie
  5. bread ties
  6. bread trade
  7. bread tree
  8. bread trees
  9. bread unit
  10. bread units
  11. bread wheat

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