TRADE

trade, craft

(noun) the skilled practice of a practical occupation; “he learned his trade as an apprentice”

trade

(noun) the commercial exchange (buying and selling on domestic or international markets) of goods and services; “Venice was an important center of trade with the East”; “they are accused of conspiring to constrain trade”

trade, patronage

(noun) the business given to a commercial establishment by its customers; “even before noon there was a considerable patronage”

barter, swap, swop, trade

(noun) an equal exchange; “we had no money so we had to live by barter”

deal, trade, business deal

(noun) a particular instance of buying or selling; “it was a package deal”; “I had no further trade with him”; “he’s a master of the business deal”

craft, trade

(noun) people who perform a particular kind of skilled work; “he represented the craft of brewers”; “as they say in the trade”

deal, sell, trade

(verb) do business; offer for sale as for one’s livelihood; “She deals in gold”; “The brothers sell shoes”

trade, swap, swop, switch

(verb) exchange or give (something) in exchange for

trade, trade in

(verb) turn in as payment or part payment for a purchase; “trade in an old car for a new one”

trade, merchandise

(verb) engage in the trade of; “he is merchandising telephone sets”

trade

(verb) be traded at a certain price or under certain conditions; “The stock traded around $20 a share”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

trade (countable and uncountable, plural trades)

(uncountable) Buying and selling of goods and services on a market.

Synonym: commerce

(countable) A particular instance of buying or selling.

Synonyms: deal, barter

(countable) An instance of bartering items in exchange for one another.

(countable) Those who perform a particular kind of skilled work.

Synonym: business

(countable) Those engaged in an industry or group of related industries.

(countable) The skilled practice of a practical occupation.

Synonym: craft

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

(uncountable, UK) The business given to a commercial establishment by its customers.

Synonym: patronage

(mostly, 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.

(uncountable, LGBT, slang) A brief sexual encounter.

(obsolete, uncountable) Instruments of any occupation.

(mining) Refuse or rubbish from a mine.

(obsolete) A track or trail; a way; a path; passage.

(obsolete) Course; custom; practice; occupation.

Hyponyms

(Hyponyms of trade (noun)):

• antitrade/anti-trade

• basket trade

• block trade

• bullet trade

• carbon trade

• carriage trade

• carry trade

• carousel trade

• cash and carry trade

• coasting trade

• countertrade

• cross-trade

• day trade

• fair trade

• free trade

• fur trade

• horse trade

• invisible trade

• motor trade

• off-trade

• on-trade

• out trade

• paper trade

• rag trade

• rough trade

• slave trade

• spot trade

• tramp trade

• uptick trade

• visible trade

Verb

trade (third-person singular simple present trades, present participle trading, simple past and past participle traded)

(ambitransitive) To engage in trade.

Synonym: deal

(finance, intransitive, copulative) To be traded at a certain price or under certain conditions.

(transitive) To give (something) in exchange for.

Synonyms: exchange, swap, switch, truck

(gardening, transitive or intransitive) To give someone a plant and receive a different one in return.

(ambitransitive) To do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood.

Synonym: do business

(intransitive) To have dealings; to be concerned or associated (with).

Anagrams

• E-tard, adret, dater, derat, drate, rated, tared, tread

Source: Wiktionary

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Trade, n. Etym: [Formerly, a path, OE. tred a footmark. See Tread, n. & v.]

1. A track; a trail; a way; a path; also, passage; travel; resort. [Obs.] A postern with a blind wicket there was, A common trade to pass through Priam's house. Surrey. Hath tracted forth some salvage beastes trade. Spenser. Or, I'll be buried in the king's highway, Some way of common trade, where subjects' feet May hourly trample on their sovereign's head. Shak.

2. Course; custom; practice; occupation; employment. [Obs.] "The right trade of religion." Udall. There those five sisters had continual trade. Spenser. Long did I love this lady, Long was my travel, long my trade to win her. Massinger. Thy sin's not accidental but a trade. Shak.

3. Business of any kind; matter of mutual consideration; affair; dealing. [Obs.] Have you any further trade with us Shak.

4. Specifically: The act or business of exchanging commodities by barter, or by buying and selling for money; commerce; traffic; barter.

Note: Trade comprehends every species of exchange or dealing, either in the produce of land, in manufactures, in bills, or in money; but it is chiefly used to denote the barter or purchase and sale of goods, wares, and merchandise, either by wholesale or retail. Trade is either foreign or domestic. Foreign trade consists in the exportation and importation of goods, or the exchange of the commodities of different countries. Domestic, or home, trade is the exchange, or buying and selling, of goods within a country. Trade is also by the wholesale, that is, by the package or in large quantities, generally to be sold again, or it is by retail, or in small parcels. The carrying trade is the business of transporting commodities from one country to another, or between places in the same country, by land or water.

5. The business which a person has learned, and which he engages in, for procuring subsistence, or for profit; occupation; especially, mechanical employment as distinguished from the liberal arts, the learned professions, and agriculture; as, we speak of the trade of a smith, of a carpenter, or mason, but not now of the trade of a farmer, or a lawyer, or a physician. Accursed usury was all his trade. Spenser. The homely, slighted, shepherd's trade. Milton. I will instruct thee in my trade. Shak.

6. Instruments of any occupation. [Obs.] The house and household goods, his trade of war. Dryden.

7. A company of men engaged in the same occupation; thus, booksellers and publishers speak of the customs of the trade, and are collectively designated as the trade.

8. pl.

Definition: The trade winds.

9. Refuse or rubbish from a mine. [Prov. Eng.]

Syn.

– Profession; occupation; office; calling; avocation; employment; commerce; dealing; traffic. Board of trade. See under Board.

– Trade dollar. See under Dollar.

– Trade price, the price at which goods are sold to members of the same trade, or by wholesale dealers to retailers. Trade sale, an auction by and for the trade, especially that of the booksellers.

– Trade wind, a wind in the torrid zone, and often a little beyond at, which blows from the same quarter throughout the year, except when affected by local causes; -- so called because of its usefulness to navigators, and hence to trade.

Note: The general direction of the trade winds is from N. E. to S. W. on the north side of the equator, and from S. E. to N. W. on the south side of the equator. They are produced by the joint effect of the rotation of the earth and the movement of the air from the polar toward the equatorial regions, to supply the vacancy caused by heating, rarefaction, and consequent ascent of the air in the latter regions. The trade winds are principally limited to two belts in the tropical regions, one on each side of the equator, and separated by a belt which is characterized by calms or variable weather.

Trade, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Traded; p. pr. & vb. n. Trading.]

1. To barter, or to buy and sell; to be engaged in the exchange, purchase, or sale of goods, wares, merchandise, or anything else; to traffic; to bargain; to carry on commerce as a business. A free port, where nations . . . resorted with their goods and traded. Arbuthnot.

2. To buy and sell or exchange property in a single instance.

3. To have dealings; to be concerned or associated; -- usually followed by with. How did you dare to trade and traffic with Macbeth Shak.

Trade, v. t.

Definition: To sell or exchange in commerce; to barter. They traded the persons of men. Ezek. xxvii. 13. To dicker and to swop, to trade rifles and watches. Cooper.

Trade, obs.

Definition: imp. of Tread.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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