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Trade

noun

1.

The commercial exchange (buying and selling on domestic or international markets) of goods and services. "They are accused of conspiring to constrain trade"

2.

The skilled practice of a practical occupation. Synonym: craft.

3.

The business given to a commercial establishment by its customers. Synonym: patronage.

4.

A particular instance of buying or selling. Synonyms: business deal, deal. "I had no further trade with him" , "He's a master of the business deal"

5.

People who perform a particular kind of skilled work. Synonym: craft. "As they say in the trade"

6.

Steady winds blowing from east to west above and below the equator. Synonym: trade wind.

7.

An equal exchange. Synonyms: barter, swap, swop.

verb

(past & past part. traded; pres. part. trading)

1.

Engage in the trade of. Synonym: merchandise.

2.

Turn in as payment or part payment for a purchase. Synonym: trade in.

3.

Be traded at a certain price or under certain conditions.

4.

Exchange or give (something) in exchange for. Synonyms: swap, switch, swop.

5.

Do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood. Synonyms: deal, sell. "The brothers sell shoes"

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— Scientific American Supplement, No. 415, December 15, 1883 • Various

... the shop behind the counter. It enabled Mr Verloc to ascertain at a glance the number of silver coins in the till. These were but few; and for the first time since he opened his shop he took a commercial survey of its value. This survey was unfavourable. He had gone into trade for no commercial reasons. He had been guided in the selection of this peculiar line of business by an instinctive leaning towards shady transactions, where money is picked up easily. Moreover, it did not take him out of his own sphere—the sphere which is ...

— The Secret Agent - A Simple Tale • Joseph Conrad

... them to contribute their toll to his letter-box; and there were at the news agents periodicals catering for every specialised class of the community and falling over themselves to put before Mr. Simcox the full range of the mysteries, the luxuries and the necessities of every trade and profession and pursuit, from shipbuilding to cycling and from ironmongery to the ownership of castles, moors, steam yachts ...

— This Freedom • A. S. M. Hutchinson

... married in 1813, and continued in business in Cambridge. In 1816, he ruined himself by a building speculation, and the derangement of the currency which denied bank facilities, and soon after he came to New York with his family, and worked at his trade. He afterwards removed to Albany, and became a hearer at the Dutch Reformed Church, then under Dr. Ludlow's charge. He was frequently much excited ...

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