A Spanish or Portuguese guild, association, or group of craftspeople or merchants with shared professional interests, historically significant in trade and labor organization.
From Latin 'gremium' meaning lap or association, borrowed into Spanish and Portuguese to describe professional guilds and brotherhoods that organized labor and trade in medieval Iberia.
A gremio was more than just a trade guild—it was a brotherhood that controlled quality, set prices, and protected members' livelihoods, making it one of the most powerful social organizations before modern corporations.
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