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chaffery

/ˈt͡ʃæfəɹi/

chaffery noun: trade; bargaining; buying and selling.

Noun

chaffery (countable and uncountable, plural chafferies)

  1. (obsolete) trade; bargaining; buying and selling
    • Of the second be all Sciences, and those which be called Liberal Arts. Of the third is Merchandise and Chaffery, that is, Buying and Selling1596 (date written; published 1633), Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande […], Dublin: […] Societie of Stationers, […], →OCLC; republished as A View of the State of Ireland […]...

Forms of chaffery

pluralchafferies

Origin of chaffery

See chaffer.

Questions about chaffery

What does chaffery mean?
Chaffery means trade; bargaining; buying and selling.
What part of speech is chaffery?
Chaffery is a noun.
How do you pronounce chaffery?
Chaffery is pronounced /ˈt͡ʃæfəɹi/.
What is the plural of chaffery?
The plural of chaffery is chafferies.

Words near chaffery in the dictionary

  1. chaffering
  2. chafferings
  3. chaffern
  4. chafferns
  5. chaffers
  6. chaffery
  7. chaffie
  8. chaffier
  9. chaffies
  10. chaffiest
  11. chaffily

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