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trade
[ treyd ]
noun
- the act or process of buying, selling, or exchanging commodities, at either wholesale or retail, within a country or between countries:
domestic trade; foreign trade.
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- the act of buying, selling, or exchanging stocks, bonds, or currency:
Stock brokerages typically charge a commission per trade.
- a purchase or sale; business deal or transaction.
- an exchange of items, usually without payment of money.
Synonyms:
- Sports. the transfer of a player or players among professional teams:
a midseason trade.
- any occupation pursued as a business or livelihood.
Synonyms: , , , ,
- some line of skilled manual or mechanical work; craft:
the trade of a carpenter; printer's trade.
- people engaged in a particular line of business:
a lecture of interest only to the trade.
- market:
an increase in the tourist trade.
- a field of business activity:
a magazine for the furniture trade.
- the customers of a business establishment.
- Informal. trade paper.
- trades. trade wind ( def 1 ).
verb (used with object)
- to buy and sell; barter; traffic in.
- to exchange:
to trade seats.
- Sports. to transfer (a player under contract) from one team to another:
The manager traded two defensive players at the end of the season.
verb (used without object)
- to carry on trade.
- to be bought, sold, or exchanged:
Stocks traded lower after the release of the jobs report.
- to traffic (usually followed by in ):
a tyrant who trades in human lives.
- to make an exchange.
- to make one's purchases; shop; buy.
adjective
- of or relating to trade or commerce.
- used by, serving, or intended for a particular trade:
trade journal.
- Also trades. of, composed of, or serving the members of a trade:
a trade club.
verb phrase
- to give (a used article) as payment to be credited toward a purchase:
We trade in our car every three years.
- to exchange a more valuable or desirable item for a less valuable or desirable one.
- to exchange a less valuable or desirable item for a more valuable or desirable one.
- to exchange something for or with another.
- to turn to one's advantage, especially selfishly or unfairly; exploit:
to trade on the weaknesses of others.
trade
/ ٰɪ /
noun
- the act or an instance of buying and selling goods and services either on the domestic (wholesale and retail) markets or on the international (import, export, and entrepôt) markets mercantile
- a personal occupation, esp a craft requiring skill
- the people and practices of an industry, craft, or business
- exchange of one thing for something else
- the regular clientele of a firm or industry
- amount of custom or commercial dealings; business
- a specified market or business
the tailoring trade
- an occupation in commerce, as opposed to a profession
- commercial customers, as opposed to the general public
trade only
trade advertising
- slang:homosexual.a sexual partner or sexual partners collectively
- archaic.a custom or habit
verb
- tr to buy and sell (commercial merchandise)
- to exchange (one thing) for another
- intr to engage in trade
- intr to deal or do business (with)
we trade with them regularly
adjective
- intended for or available only to people in industry or business
trade prices
trade
- Business or commerce; economic activity.
Derived Forms
- ˈٰ岹, adjective
- ˈٰ, adjective
Other 51Թ Forms
- ٰa· ٰa· adjective
- ٰl adjective
- t·ٰ noun verb intertraded intertrading
- ԴDz·ٰ noun
- ԴDz·ٰiԲ adjective
- ·ٰ adjective
- ·ٰ verb retraded retrading noun
- ܲd·ٰ verb undertraded undertrading
- un·ٰa· adjective
- un·ٰa· adjective
- ܲ·ٰĻ adjective
- ܲ·ٰiԲ adjective
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of trade1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of trade1
Idioms and Phrases
- tricks of the trade
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
“I think wanting to call out California was part of why cap and trade got mentioned.”
Warnings of a global recession have been intensifying as the trade war heats up.
Rahm might ply his trade on the 54-hole LIV Golf circuit nowadays, but the 30-year-old remains a ferocious competitor who will have few problems in going the distance if his game is there.
A mineral agreement, in which Zelensky had originally suggested trading a portion of Ukraine's mineral resource wealth for continued military aid, was never signed, and has since evolved into a less favourable proposal for Kyiv.
The reality is that the US is now making nice – or at least nicer - with nations that had faced their retaliatory trade fire.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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