expanding trade
collocation in Englishmeaningsofexpandandtrade
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expand
verb[I or T]
uk/ɪkˈspænd/us/ɪkˈspænd/
to increase in size, number, or importance, or to make something increase in ...
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trade
noun
uk/treɪd/us/treɪd/
the activity of buying and selling, or exchanging, goods and/or services between people ...
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(Definition ofexpandandtradefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The impact ofexpandingtradeand increasing commodification is a third level of analysis.
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Their dedication toexpandingtrade, perhaps for personal gain, became a common thread in their relationship.
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I suggest that these debates represent a critical moment in the history of commercial discourse, when the dilemma betweenexpandingtradeand enclosing it reached a head.
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That brings me to my final point: to what purpose thisexpandingtradeand economy?
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That is anexpandingtradeand is another avenue being opened for the shipbuilding industry.
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In the years 1933–38 we had a period ofexpandingtrade.
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He mentioned that the motor trade, of course, was a very rapidlyexpandingtradeanyhow.
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In terms ofexpandingtrade, these ports are of enormous and increasing national importance.
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It believes that competition is the stimulus that is necessary forexpandingtrade.
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Are we to take it that they have given up all hope ofexpandingtrade?
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There was increased world demand forexpandingtradeas well as an increase in internal trade.
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The potential forexpandingtradebetween the developing and the developed worlds is clearly great.
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But if we are pursuing a policy ofexpandingtrade, we must carefully think out all its implications.
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Let us afford them alternative markets and financial facilities forexpandingtradebetween their countries and our own.
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I am quite certain that the possibilities for anexpandingtradethere for this country are very great indeed.
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But in 1966 we were not earning the same proportion of thisexpandingtradeas we were in 1950.
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The uses to which it can be put are almost exhausted, because there is noexpandingtradeseeking help.
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After all, the best hope ofexpandingtradeis to make sure that customers get value for money.
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It will be part of anexpandingtraderelationship which will be fruitful in other ways as well.
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While aid is no substitute for healthy andexpandingtrade, it does not necessarily perform the same function.
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It is not really highly undesirable to have a normal, healthy growth of profits in a time ofexpandingtrade.
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We live in an expanding world and are losing at the moment our share of anexpandingtrade.
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With the shrinkage of the coal industry, it was very difficult to do anything in the way ofexpandingtrade.
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It may well be good for overseas capital to come into our industries and perhaps obtain control during a period of development andexpandingtrade.
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To turn to the oil industry, it is, of course, an immenselyexpandingtrade, and the trade has doubled since before the war.
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