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fair trade noun
(also fairtrade) 
n [U]
n [U] Definition
a way of buying and selling products that makes certain that the original producer receives a fair price
Fair trade, say Oxfam, is about giving poor people power.
fair trade coffee/chocolate
fairly traded adverb
adv fairly traded bananas
(Definition of fair trade noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
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