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needle trade

needle trade is the alternative form of needletrade.

Meaning of needletrade

Noun

needletrade (plural needletrades)

  1. Any line of work involving the use of a needle with textiles, such as embroidery or the making of clothes.
    • Styleware is Hugh David and Christopher Gibson; Christopher was born and bred in the needletrade and spent ten years as a garment manufacturer.1989, Peter J. Allen, Lewis Miles, Computers in Textiles, page 84

Forms of needle trade

pluralneedle trades

Questions about needle trade

What is needle trade the alternative form of?
Needle trade is the alternative form of needletrade.

Words near needle trade in the dictionary

  1. needle threaders
  2. needle time
  3. needle times
  4. needle tower
  5. needle towers
  6. needle trade
  7. needle trades
  8. needle valve
  9. needle valves
  10. needle wire
  11. needle wires

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Adapted from Wiktionary: needle trade (page history and authors); needletrade (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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