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A guild (/ɡɪld/ GILD) is an association of artisans and merchants who oversee the practice of their craft/trade in a particular territory. The earliest types of guild formed as organizations of tradespeople belonging to a professional association. They sometimes depended on grants of letters patent from a monarch or other ruler to enforce the flow of trade to their self-employed members, and to retain ownership of tools and the supply of materials, but most were regulated by the local government. Guild members found guilty of cheating the public would be fined or banned from the guild. A lasting legacy of traditional guilds are the guildhalls constructed and used as guild meeting-places.

Guild - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Association of artisans or merchants For other uses, see Guild (disambiguation) . The Syndics of the Drapers' Guild by Rembrandt , 1662 A guild ( / ɡ ɪ l d / , GHILD ) is a professional association of artisans and merchants who oversee the practice of their craft/trade in a particular territory. The word derives from medieval Europe where guilds were probably at their most extensive, but it has been used to describe similar groups before and after that period and in other parts of the world. Typically the key "privilege" w

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