Trade

Word TRADE
Character 5
Hyphenation trade
Pronunciations /tɹeɪd/

Definitions and meanings of "Trade"

What do we mean by trade?

The business of buying and selling commodities, products, or services; commerce. synonym: business. noun

A branch or kind of business. noun

The people working in or associated with a business or industry. noun

The activity or volume of buying or selling. noun

An exchange of one thing for another. noun

An occupation, especially one requiring skilled labor; craft. noun

The trade winds. noun

To engage in buying and selling for profit. intransitive verb

To make an exchange of one thing for another. intransitive verb

To be offered for sale or be sold. intransitive verb

To shop or buy regularly. intransitive verb

To give in exchange for something else. intransitive verb

To buy and sell (stocks, for example). intransitive verb

To pass back and forth. intransitive verb

Of or relating to trade or commerce. adjective

Relating to, used by, or serving a particular trade. adjective

Of or relating to books that are primarily published to be sold commercially, as in bookstores. adjective

To trade something in for something else of lower value or price. phrasal verb

To surrender or sell (an old or used item), using the proceeds as partial payment on a new purchase. phrasal verb

To put to calculated and often unscrupulous advantage; exploit. phrasal verb

Buying and selling of goods and services on a market.

A particular instance of buying or selling.

An instance of bartering items in exchange for one another.

Those who perform a particular kind of skilled work.

Those engaged in an industry or group of related industries.

The skilled practice of a practical occupation.

An occupation in the secondary sector, as opposed to an agricultural, professional or military one.

The business given to a commercial establishment by its customers.

(chiefly in the plural) Steady winds blowing from east to west above and below the equator.

(only as plural) A publication intended for participants in an industry or related group of industries.

A brief sexual encounter.

Instruments of any occupation.

Refuse or rubbish from a mine.

A track or trail; a way; a path; passage.

Course; custom; practice; occupation.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Trade

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The word "trade" in example sentences

It is called (in contradistinction to the foreign slave trade) _ "the internal slave trade_." ❋ Frederick Douglass (1856)

According to divers masters in the art of ethics now flourishing among ourselves, more especially in the atmosphere of the journals of the commercial communities, the people that "_can_ trade and _won't_ trade, _must be made to trade_." ❋ James Fenimore Cooper (1820)

This miscreant lives unnoticed, in a little village near Paris, upon a slender income, which he has made in trade, not in the _trade of blood_; for it appears that Robespierre was not a very liberal patron of his servants. ❋ John Carr (1802)

Is better than a potential team of, if they trade for him, Rose, Gordon, Deng/Salmons (* one of them go in a trade*), CHRIS BOSH, and TT/Noah, obviously wants the Bulls to be garbage or ... ❋ Unknown (2009)

Before the commencement of the troubles of France, the universal cry in that country was "liberty and trade," and now their ports were completely shut to trade* ❋ Unknown (1813)

With a view to give both these questions a full and separate discussion, he had framed tvty distinct resolutions, one oi jrlpch (the second in the series) went to declare that the restraint upon the China trade, as now bylaw esta - blished* should still exist; in fatt, that the East India com-* pany should beseemed in their monopoly of that trade*. ❋ Unknown (1813)

The system of Dr. Smith tended to the production of that natural freedom of trade, each step toward which would have been attended with improvement in the condition of the people, and increase in the _power to trade_, thus affording proof conclusive of the soundness of the doctrine; whereas every step in the direction now known as free trade is attended with deterioration of condition, and _increased necessity_ for trade, with _diminished power_ to trade. ❋ Unknown (1836)

The term "trade area" is not explicitly defined, leaving that to the liquor board or the courts to eventually decide. ❋ Unknown (2011)

And there were beads and blankets and scarlet cloths, such as I got in trade from the people who lived to the east, and who got them in trade from the people who lived still beyond in the east. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Ounenk offered me a kayak, new-made, and a gun which he got in trade from the Hungry Folk. ❋ Unknown (2010)

For behold, I received an iron knife in trade from the head man of the next village, and yesterday the iron knife slipped from my fingers and went down, down, into the sea. ❋ Unknown (2010)

For a service whose stock in trade is rock-solid reliability and security, this is becoming a real business problem. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A producer like Scott Rudin, who was the producer for No Country for Old Men — his stock in trade is haunting publishing houses. ❋ Unknown (2008)

On the surface, Hands-N-Paws caters to owners-n-their-dogs, but the company's real stock in trade is being hilariously rude to its customers. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Success in trade is success in high-productivity industries, which earn large economic “rents”. ❋ Unknown (2007)

This huge gap in trade is why our economy sucks Ryan. ❋ Unknown (2005)

They have brazenly stolen [laughs] that amount this way, since the term trade was imposed by them with all these measures, the dumping, and the strategic reserve. ❋ Unknown (1985)

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