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- adjective produced in such a way that all producers of the product receive a fair wage for their work.
Etymologies
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Examples
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For something to be labelled fairtrade, suppliers must meet minimum standards with respect to social, economic and environmental requirements and labour conditions.
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Now councils promote 'fairtrade' products against local competition, even tory councils have jumped on the bandwagon.
Poltical Language ( Ask the Focus Group ) Newmania 2007
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Helping ensure that the poppies for the heroin trade are being grown under 'fairtrade' conditions ?
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However good your intentions are, it isn't always easy to equate that tiny 'fairtrade' logo that appears on certain products with the real lives it represents, making it all to easy to overlook those products in favour of other that are a bit cheaper.
Hippyshopper 2008
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Divine Chocolate -- proving that fairtrade cooperatives work for everyone and lock the mission into the brand.
Margaret Heffernan: The Parallel Universe of Social Enterprise Margaret Heffernan 2011
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You and I still get to do photography and fairtrade clothes, but Daddy needs some help for two days a week.
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The drug addict is not the type to ask if his or her purchase is fairtrade, as the collapse of my single estate, organic methamphetamine business last year testifies, and the football addict is no different.
Football addicts will take whatever junk they can get | Harry Pearson 2011
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I've talked to their officials and – believe me – it's all they can do to stop themselves choking on their fairtrade coffee when they hear people from Europe and North America telling them how to use their country's resources after centuries of cutting down all of our own forests, exterminating Indian populations from coast to coast and drilling for oil.
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Divine Chocolate -- proving that fairtrade cooperatives work for everyone and lock the mission into the brand.
Margaret Heffernan: The Parallel Universe of Social Enterprise Margaret Heffernan 2011
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Divine Chocolate -- proving that fairtrade cooperatives work for everyone and lock the mission into the brand.
Margaret Heffernan: The Parallel Universe of Social Enterprise Margaret Heffernan 2011
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