livery company

1. 1.

   one of the chartered companies of London originating with the craft guilds

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Questions about livery company

What does livery company mean?

livery company means "one of the chartered companies of London originating with the craft guilds".

Is livery company a common word?

livery company 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.