trade

IPA: trˈeɪd

noun

  • (uncountable) Buying and selling of goods and services on a market.
  • (countable) A particular instance of buying or selling.
  • (countable) An instance of bartering items in exchange for one another.
  • (countable) Those who perform a particular kind of skilled work.
  • (countable) Those engaged in an industry or group of related industries.
  • (countable) The skilled practice of a practical occupation.
  • (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.
  • (chiefly 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, gay slang) A masculine man available for casual sex with men, often for pay. (Compare rough trade.)
  • (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.

verb

  • (transitive, intransitive) To engage in trade.
  • (finance, intransitive, copulative) To be traded at a certain price or under certain conditions.
  • (transitive, with for) To give (something) in exchange (for).
  • (transitive) To mutually exchange (something) (with).
  • (transitive, with on) To use or exploit a particular aspect, such as a name, reputation, or image, to gain advantage or benefit.
  • (horticulture, transitive or intransitive) To give someone a plant and receive a different one in return.
  • (transitive, intransitive) To do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood.
  • (intransitive) To have dealings; to be concerned or associated (with).
  • (transitive) To recommend and get recommendations.

adjective

  • Of a product, produced for sale in the ordinary bulk retail trade and hence of only the most basic quality.
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Examples of "trade" in Sentences

  • The government abolished the trade.
  • It was a center of the hosiery trade.
  • His trade was in the embroidery business.
  • He transacts business in the slave trade.
  • Fishing is the main trade of the islands.
  • The family prospered in the lucrative business of salt and cereals trade.
  • The clown barb is of commercial importance in the aquarium trade industry.
  • The bigspot barb is of commercial importance in the aquarium trade industry.

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