chamber of commerce

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   an association of businessmen to protect and promote business interests

   Broaderassociation

Questions about chamber of commerce

What does chamber of commerce mean?

chamber of commerce means "an association of businessmen to protect and promote business interests".

Is chamber of commerce a common word?

chamber of commerce is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.