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   trade

   /treɪd/

   noun

   • 1. the action of buying and selling goods and services: "a move to ban all trade in ivory" Similar commercebuying and sellingdealingtraffictraffickingbusinessmarketingmerchandisingbargainingdealingstransactionsnegotiationsproceedings
   • ▪ the practice of making one's living in business, as opposed to in a profession or from unearned income: dated, derogatory "the aristocratic classes were contemptuous of those in trade"
   • ▪ (in sport) a transfer: North American "players can demand a trade after five years of service"
   • 2. a job requiring manual skills and special training: "the fundamentals of the construction trade" Similar craftoccupationjobday jobcareerprofessionbusinesspursuitlivinglivelihoodlineline of workline of businessvocationcallingwalk of lifeprovincefieldworkemploymentmétier
   • ▪ the people engaged in a particular area of business: "in the trade this sort of computer is called ‘a client-based system’" Similar commercebuying and sellingdealingtraffictraffickingbusinessmarketingmerchandisingbargainingdealingstransactionsnegotiationsproceedings
   • ▪ people licensed to sell alcoholic drink. British
   • 3. a trade wind: "the north-east trades"

   verb

   • 1. buy and sell goods and services: "middlemen trading in luxury goods" Similar dealtrafficbuy and sellmarketpeddlemerchandisebarterinformal:hawktoutflogrundo businessdealrunoperate
   • ▪ buy or sell (a particular item or product): "she has traded millions of dollars' worth of metals"
   • ▪ (especially of shares or currency) be bought and sold at a specified price: "the dollar was trading where it was in January"
   • 2. exchange (something) for something else, typically as a commercial transaction: "they trade mud-shark livers for fish oil" Similar swapexchangeswitchbartersubstitutereplacearchaic:truck
   • ▪ give and receive (something, typically insults or blows): "they traded a few punches"
   • ▪ transfer (a player) to another team: North American "would his behaviour cause them to trade him?"

   Word Origin late Middle English (as a noun): from Middle Low German, literally ‘track’, of West Germanic origin; related to tread. Early senses included ‘course, way of life’, which gave rise in the 16th century to ‘habitual practice of an occupation’, ‘skilled handicraft’. The current verb senses date from the late 16th century.

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     the activity of buying and selling, or exchanging, goods...

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