fair and square
fair
noun[ C ]
us/fer, fær/

fairnoun[C] (PUBLIC EVENT)

a public event, usually held outside, where goods and sometimes farm animals are shown and sold and where there is often food and entertainment
 county/state fair
A county/state fair is one where farm animals and products from that region are shown to compete for prizes and there is food and entertainment.
 street fair
A street fair is one where a city street is closed to cars so that goods and food can be sold to people walking through it.
A fair is also a show at which people who work in a particular industry meet to sell and advertise their products:
a book/antiques/toy fair

fair | Business English

fair
adjective
 SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITYuk /feər/us
treating people equally and in a way that is right and reasonable:
It's the government's job to make sure that the tax system is fair and equitable.
be fair on sbThe new regulations are not fair on working parents.
Everyone has the right to a fair trial.
Corporations must pay their fair share of the cost of the construction work.
a fair price, wage, rent, etc. is not too high or too low:
All we're asking for is a fair wage.
Local growers must be given a fair price for their produce.
fair
noun[ C ]
uk /feər/us
COMMERCE, MARKETING
a large event at which manufacturers, business people, and individuals advertise and sometimes sell their products and services:
The Battersea Contemporary Art Fair is one of the largest in the UK.

Examples of fair

fair
Being "fair" was feasible for such owners if the universal enforcement of the union contract protected them from non-union competition.
Intermediate floors are assumed to be the wide fair-faced slabs so common there, and internal wall or ceiling linings of timber are encouraged.
To be fair, the book is explicitly an institutional history, and as such has no obligation to engage large historiographical themes.
There is one class of unsteady turbulent flows, however, that has been studied in fair detail using moderate to highly sophisticated data, reduction techniques.
They also conclude (p. 677) 'that the linear inter-component energy transfer hypothesis is unlikely to be even a fair approximation'.
As such, the volume is a fair summary of the state of the field and the most visible research of the last decade.
Fair rents are sometimes unrealistically low relative to house prices.
Reasonable people might disagree whether someone had her fair innings.
But is that really a fair and balanced picture?
One of the clear differences between fair employment and the s75 mainstreaming intervention lies in their focus.
To some extent, the difference between the types of antigen used makes a fair comparison between results difficult.
Of the 38 bilingual children participating in the study, 13 (38%) were rated as beginning readers and 4 (11%) were considered fair readers.
Farmers were asked to rate (as good, fair or bad) storage behaviour in terms of keeping quality and tolerance to insect pests.
I have compared the eighteenth-century libretti, which give a fair approximation of the changes made in 1754.
Household members attended the fair an average of 1.75 days.
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