bread trade

English

Noun

bread trade

1. (historical, Russia) The business of buying and selling bread, during the Stalinist era.
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bread,‎ trade.
   • 1922, T.W. Knaff, Northwestern Miller, page 166:

     Bakers still complain that there has been no midsummer bulge in the bread trade.

   • 2008, Robert Wells, Modern Practical Bread Baker, page 131:

     Unless a desperate effort be at once made to reconstruct the present loose system of making bread, too often carried on in some of our bakeries, the bulk of the bread trade is destined to drift gradually into the hands of female bakers.