jewelry trade
Precious adornment business
The jewelry trade encompasses the business of buying, selling, and dealing in jewelry—from retail shops to wholesale distributors to specialized markets for gems and precious metals.
The term often implies insider knowledge of valuation and sourcing: She learned the jewelry trade from her uncle, a diamond merchant.
It can also refer collectively to people working in this industry: The jewelry trade was hit hard by the recession.
- emeraldsPrecious green gemstones
- precious metalsRare, valuable metallic elements
- diamondsPrecious crystallized carbon
- blood diamondsGems mined to fund warfare
- goldElement seventy-nine
karat gold · silver · hallmarking · lapidary · certification · provenance · goldsmith · gemology · loose stones · ring · assay · pearls · appraisal · boutique · grading · conflict diamonds · carat · chain
- Eastern tradebazaar, souk, merchant, trader, caravan
- jewelryearrings, bracelet, necklaces, necklace, rings
- Ancient Egypt economygrain storage, gold mines, taxation, granaries, tribute
- overseas Chineseoverseas Chinese, ethnic Chinese, Chinese community, Chinatown, Chinatowns