Trade definition

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

Writers, editors, and other members of the publishing trade.

noun

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

noun

The activity or volume of buying or selling.

The trade in stocks was brisk all morning.

noun

A branch or kind of business.

The women's clothing trade.

noun

The buying and selling of commodities or the bartering of goods; commerce.

noun

An exchange of one thing for another.

Baseball teams making a trade of players.

noun

To pass back and forth.

We traded jokes.

verb

To make an exchange (with someone)

verb

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

noun

Trade is defined as the general marketplace of buying and selling goods, the way you make a living or the act of exchanging or buying and selling something.

An example of trade is the tea trade where tea is imported from China and purchased in the US.

An example of trade is when you work in sales.

An example of trade is the act of exchanging one item for another or one item for money.

noun

Of the members in the trades, or crafts.

Trade unions.

adjective

To give in exchange for something else.

Trade farm products for manufactured goods; will trade my ticket for yours.

verb

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

Rumors about layoffs are all over the trades.

noun

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

Josh picked up some trade last night.

noun

(informal) To be a customer (at a specified store or shop)

verb

To exchange; barter; swap.

verb

To buy and sell (stocks, etc.)

verb

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

noun

(countable) A particular instance of buying or selling.

I did no trades with them once the rumors started.

noun

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

The skilled trades were the first to organize modern labor unions.

noun

(countable) The skilled practice of a practical occupation.

He learned his trade as an apprentice.

noun

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

Even before noon there was considerable trade.

noun

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

They rode the trades going west.

noun

Shakespeare.

Thy sin's not accidental but a trade.

noun

Dealings or the market involving specified commodities, customers, seasons, etc.

The tourist trade, the Easter trade.

noun

An occupation, especially one requiring skilled labor; craft.

The building trades.

noun

To engage in buying and selling for profit.

verb

To buy and sell (stocks, for example).

verb

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

A trade magazine.

adjective

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

adjective

To trade means to exchange something such as items or services, to buy or sell items or to buy or sell stocks.

An example of trade is when you give your friend your peanut butter sandwich in exchange for his tuna sandwich.

An example of trade is when you give a greeting to your friend and get greeted in return.

An example of trade is when you buy shares of a company stock.

verb

Customers; clientele.

noun

A purchase or sale; deal; bargain.

noun

Of or relating to trade or commerce.

adjective

Of, by, or for those in a particular business or industry.

Trade papers or journals.

adjective

Of or having to do with the publishing of books intended for sale to the general public; specif., designating or of a paperback book of a size similar to a typical hardcover book.

adjective

To carry on a trade or business.

verb

To have business dealings (with someone)

verb

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

It is not a retail showroom. It is only for the trade.

noun

An exchange; swap.

noun

The trade winds.

noun

A track; path.

noun

A course; regular procedure.

noun

A means of earning one's living; occupation, work, or line of business.

noun

An occupation requiring skill in any of certain kinds of work done with the hands, as distinguished from unskilled work or from a profession or business; craft.

noun

All the persons or companies in a particular line of business or work.

noun

(mining) Refuse or rubbish from a mine.

noun

Spenser.

Hath tracted forth some salvage beastes trade.

noun

Shakespeare.

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.

noun

Spenser.

There those five sisters had continual trade.

noun

Massinger.

Long did I love this lady, / Long was my travel, long my trade to win her.

noun

To engage in trade.

This company trades in precious metal.

verb

To be traded at a certain price or under certain conditions.

verb

To give (something) in exchange for.

Will you trade your precious watch for my earring?

verb

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

verb

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

verb

The trade winds.

noun

To make an exchange of one thing for another.

verb

To be offered for sale or be sold.

Stocks traded at lower prices this morning.

verb

To shop or buy regularly.

Trades at the local supermarket.

verb

Of or relating to trade or commerce.

adjective

trade down

to trade something for something of lower value

idiom

trade in

to give (one's used automobile, etc.) as part of the purchase price of a new one

idiom

trade on

to take advantage of; exploit

idiom

trade up

to trade something for something of higher value

idiom

Other Word Forms

Noun

Singular:

trade

Plural:

trades

Idioms and Phrasal Verbs

trade down

trade in

trade on

trade up

Origin of trade

Middle English course from Middle Low German

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
From Middle English trade (“path, course of conduct"), cognate with Old English tredan (“tread"); See Online Etymology Dictionary

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