rag trade

Questions about rag trade

What is another word for rag trade?

It depends which rag trade you mean. In the sense “makers and sellers of fashionable clothing”, the synonyms are apparel industry, garment industry, fashion industry, fashion business. Across all 1 sense there are 4 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of rag trade?

WordNet records no antonym for rag trade. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for rag trade come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of rag trade

• Full entry for rag tradeAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for rag tradeWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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