trade association

organization for businesses in a given industry
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trade association

Summary

trade association is a legal form[1]. It draws 561 Wikipedia views per month (legal_form category, ranking #20 of 73).[2]

Key Facts

  • trade association's field of work was public relations[3].
  • trade association's field of work was advertising[4].
  • trade association's field of work was lobbying[5].
  • trade association's field of work was social action[6].
  • trade association's instance of is recorded as legal form[7].
  • trade association is a type of voluntary association[8].
  • trade association is a type of association[9].
  • trade association is a type of supraorganization[10].
  • trade association is a type of pressure group[11].
  • trade association's Commons category is recorded as Trade associations[12].
  • trade association's said to be the same as is recorded as Unternehmerverband[13].
  • trade association's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Trade associations[14].
  • trade association's represents is recorded as industry[15].
  • trade association's represents is recorded as business sector[16].
  • trade association's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[17].
  • trade association's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[18].
  • trade association's described by source is recorded as Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[19].
  • trade association's partially coincident with is recorded as advocacy group[20].
  • trade association's has characteristic is recorded as nonprofit organization[21].
  • trade association's different from is recorded as labor union[22].
  • trade association's different from is recorded as professional association[23].
  • trade association's uses is recorded as political action committee[24].
  • trade association's has list is recorded as list of trade associations[25].
  • trade association's model item is recorded as Motion Picture Association[26].

Body

Definition and Type

trade association's instance of is recorded as legal form[7]. Recorded subclass of include voluntary association[8], association[9], supraorganization[10], and pressure group[11].

Why It Matters

trade association draws 561 Wikipedia views per month (legal_form category, ranking #20 of 73).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] It is known by 50 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [7] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 9d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of legal form
    Represents industry, business sector
    Partially coincident with advocacy group
    Uses political action committee
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