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A guild (/ɡɪld/, GHILD) is a professional association of artisans and merchants who oversee the practice of their craft/trade in a particular territory. The word derives from medieval Europe where guilds were probably at their most extensive, but it has been used to describe similar groups before and after that period and in other parts of the world.
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| Guild | is a | labor union for journalists and other newspaper workers | 0.90 | text |
| Florence | instance of | In major cities | 0.80 | text |
| Paris | instance of | In major cities | 0.80 | text |
| Barcelona | instance of | In major cities | 0.80 | text |
| and the German free cities | instance of | In major cities | 0.80 | text |
| guilds became central to economic | instance of | In major cities | 0.80 | text |
| civic life | instance of | In major cities | 0.80 | text |
| often numbering in the dozens or even hundreds.Guilds also fulfilled important social | instance of | In major cities | 0.80 | text |
| political functions | instance of | In major cities | 0.80 | text |
| surgeons | instance of | with others open to women | 0.80 | text |
| glass-blowers | instance of | with others open to women | 0.80 | text |
| Adam Smith argued that guild monopolies inhibited free trade | instance of | where some guilds had been predominantly female since medieval times.Fall of the GuildsEnlightenment thinkers | 0.80 | text |
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