Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Each year Brazil exports more than 44 million bags of coffee. Vietnam follows at exporting over 27 million bags each year.
REGRATE
Etymology
Verb
regrate (third-person singular simple present regrates, present participle regrating, simple past and past participle regrated)
To purchase goods from a market in order to resell them at the same (or nearby) market at an inflated price.
(masonry) To remove the outer surface of, as of an old hewn stone, so as to give it a fresh appearance.
To offend; to shock.
Anagrams
• Traeger, greater
Source: Wiktionary
Re*grate" (r*grt"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Regrated; p. pr. & vb. n. Regrating.] Etym: [F. regratter, literally, to scrape again. See Re-, and Grate, v. t.]
1. (Masonry)
Definition: To remove the outer surface of, as of an old hewn stone, so as to give it a fresh appearance.
2. To offend; to shock. [Obs.] Derham.
Re*grate", v. t. Etym: [F. regratter to regrate provisions; of uncertain origin.] (Eng.Law)
Definition: To buy in large quantities, as corn, provisions, etc., at a market or fair, with the intention of selling the same again, in or near the same place, at a higher price, -- a practice which was formerly treated as a public offense.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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