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View synonyms for free trade
free trade
noun
- trade between countries, free from governmental restrictions or duties.
- international trade free from protective duties and subject only to such tariffs as are needed for revenue.
- the system, principles, or maintenance of such trade.
- Chiefly Scot. smuggling.
free trade
noun
- international trade that is free of such government interference as import quotas, export subsidies, protective tariffs, etc Compare protection
- archaic.illicit trade; smuggling
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- free-trade adjective
- prefree-trade adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of free trade1
First recorded in 1600–10
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Example Sentences
As Minister of Foreign Affairs she helped Canada renegotiate a free trade deal with the US and Mexico.
From BBC
But Cobden supported free trade as one plank of a larger liberal platform that included staunch opposition to imperialism.
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The deal made in 2021 outlines the free trade in goods as well as agreements on access to UK fisheries.
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"Today's demonstration is a stance against free trade, especially the EU-Mercosur agreement that we've been opposing since it was first discussed in the late 1990s," he said.
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What does a Trumpov free trade deal even mean now, if the new White House is willing to put tariffs on your country?
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