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Discover LudwigThe phrase "ancillary trade" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to secondary or supplementary trade activities that support a primary business or industry.
Example: "The ancillary trade associated with the tourism sector includes services such as transportation, hospitality, and entertainment."
Alternatives: "supporting trade" or "secondary trade".
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The milky broth was once so popular that an ancillary trade in Tom and Jerry punch-bowl sets sprang up.
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The problem is that all the ancillary trading can obscure the point of what he does.
Shipping also introduced Bouvier to the complicated lives of the rich — their taxes and their divorces — and the other ancillary trades that help the art world go around: restorers, framers, hired experts, operators of tiny galleries in Paris clinging on from sale to sale.
In the late-18th century, the Industrial Revolution transformed the local domestic system; mechanisation enabled the industrialisation of the region's textile trade, triggering rapid growth in the cotton industry and expansion in ancillary trades.
An ancillary slave trade that had developed distressed Europeans, who forgot that their depredations against Africans had continued virtually unabated until the early 19th century, and they prevailed on the khedive to abolish this commerce.
Such technology now makes it easier to pursue captive breeding – with its ancillary benefits in trade and diplomacy – than to effectively protect the panda's natural habitat.
Since the 1990s, the growth of information technology (IT), IT-enabled services (ITES), insurance and financial institutions has expanded the service sector, and these primary economic activities have boosted the ancillary sectors of trade and commerce, transport, storage, communication, real estate and retail.
The Pistons are trying to focus on the trade's ancillary benefits: the cap space and the development of Stuckey, who is averaging 13.4 points and 4.8 assists.
Trade encouraged ancillary industries such as the manufacture of steel rails and railroad equipment, shipbuilding, packaging, and printing, as well as the development of hotels and restaurant facilities.
Translate the threat of terrorism into clean energy programmes and infrastructure investment to increase resiliency and improve America's strategic position – and don't forget the ancillary benefits of increased trade and competitiveness.
Instead, they opted to make money from the retail drugs trade, and ancillary businesses like kidnapping and extortion, but it was iron ore that gave them the most valuable hard currency.In recent weeks, however, two things have changed.
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