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shuttle trade

shuttle trade noun: the process of travelling in and out of a country, especially the Soviet Union, in order to obtain goods on the outside to sell on the inside.

Noun

shuttle trade (uncountable)

  1. The process of travelling in and out of a country, especially the Soviet Union, in order to obtain goods on the outside to sell on the inside.

Questions about shuttle trade

What does shuttle trade mean?
Shuttle trade means the process of travelling in and out of a country, especially the Soviet Union, in order to obtain goods on the outside to sell on the inside.
What part of speech is shuttle trade?
Shuttle trade is a noun.

Words near shuttle trade in the dictionary

  1. shuttle drivers
  2. shuttle race
  3. shuttle races
  4. shuttle run
  5. shuttle runs
  6. shuttle trade
  7. shuttle vector
  8. shuttle vectors
  9. shuttle-box
  10. shuttle-boxes
  11. shuttle-driver

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