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Word Meanings - LIBRARY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

bookseller's shop, book trade, formerly, a library, fr. libraire bookseller, L. librarius, from liber book; cf. libraria bookseller's 1. A considerable collection of books kept for use, and not as merchandise; as, a private library; a

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bookseller's shop, book trade, formerly, a library, fr. libraire bookseller, L. librarius, from liber book; cf. libraria bookseller's 1. A considerable collection of books kept for use, and not as merchandise; as, a private library; a public library. 2. A building or apartment appropriated for holding such a collection of books. Holland.

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  • TRADE-MARK
    A peculiar distinguishing mark or device affixed by a manufacturer or a merchant to his goods, the exclusive right of using which is recognized by law.
  • LIBERATORY
    Tending, or serving, to liberate.
  • LIBERALIZE
    To make liberal; to free from narrow views or prejudices. To open and to liberalize the mind. Burke.
  • FORMERLY
    In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
  • PRIVATEERING
    Cruising in a privateer.
  • TRADESFOLK
    People employed in trade; tradesmen. Swift.
  • LIBERTINAGE
    Libertinism; license.
  • TRADESPEOPLE
    People engaged in trade; shopkeepers.
  • LIBERTINE
    A manumitted slave; a freedman; also, the son of a freedman.
  • BOOKSELLING
    The employment of selling books.
  • LIBERTARIAN
    Pertaining to liberty, or to the doctrine of free will, as opposed to the doctrine of necessity.
  • BOOKSTAND
    1. A place or stand for the sale of books in the streets; a bookstall. 2. A stand to hold books for reading or reference.
  • MERCHANDISER
    A trader. Bunyan.
  • LIBERALISTIC
    Pertaining to, or characterized by, liberalism; as, liberalistic opinions.
  • BOOKSHOP
    A bookseller's shop.
  • LIBERATION
    The act of liberating or the state of being liberated. This mode of analysis requires perfect liberation from all prejudged system. Pownall.
  • PRIVATEERSMAN
    An officer or seaman of a privateer.
  • TRADED
    Professional; practiced. Shak.
  • TRADELESS
    Having no trade or traffic. Young.
  • LIBERTICIDE
    1. The destruction of civil liberty. 2. A destroyer of civil liberty. B. F. Wade.
  • ILLIBERALISM
    Illiberality.
  • SOLE TRADER
    A feme sole trader.
  • ILLIBERALNESS
    The state of being illiberal; illiberality.
  • DELIBERATELY
    With careful consideration, or deliberation; circumspectly; warily; not hastily or rashly; slowly; as, a purpose deliberately formed.
  • DELIBERATOR
    One who deliberates.

 

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