bread trade

noun

The business of buying and selling bread, during the Stalinist era.

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Meanings

noun
  1. RussiahistoricalThe 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
    1 more example

    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
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