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Anti-trade

Anti-trade \An"ti-trade`\, n. A westerly wind which blows nearly continuously between 30[deg] and 50[deg] of latitude in both the northern and the southern hemisphere. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] ||

Usage examples of "anti-trade".

I thought the anti-trade, anti-globalization forces were wrong in believ-ing that trade had increased poverty.

The Surprise, still on the same tack, but under topsails alone, had drawn in with Norfolk Island, so that the nearer shore could be seen on the rise, and along the heights the outlines of monstrous trees stood sharp against the sky - a sky that was as pure as ever, apart from a low cloud-bank right astern: the lightest night-blue overhead changing imperceptibly to aquamarine in the east, with a very few high clouds moving south-east on the anti-trade, much stronger up there than its counterpart below.

But these were also days during which high white clouds passed in flocks across the sky, while others, higher still by far, moved in the opposite direction on the anti-trade, an interesting phenomenon and one rarely seen to such perfection.