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LIVERY COMPANY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does livery company mean?
• LIVERY COMPANY (noun)
The noun LIVERY COMPANY has 1 sense:
1. one of the chartered companies of London originating with the craft guilds
Familiarity information: LIVERY COMPANY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
One of the chartered companies of London originating with the craft guilds
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("livery company" is a kind of...):
company (an institution created to conduct business)
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