...they will construct roads, bridges, railways and telegraph installations; regulate rivers; and build their own dwellings, their labor will create trade, trade will create markets and markets will attract new settlers...
We are also encouraging the free flow of trade and investment in the Pacific among our partners in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
Noun (countable): the collective people who perform a particular kind of skilled work
Not being in the trade, the "young ladies" interested me more than the spinning-jennies or looms; and, before I had gone through one mill, I was ready to admit that the difference between a Manchester factory girl and a Lowell "young lady," is great indeed.