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.
- Ounenk offered me a kayak, new-made, and a gun which he got in trade from the Hungry Folk.
- It is called (in contradistinction to the foreign slave trade) _ "the internal slave trade_."
- The term "trade area" is not explicitly defined, leaving that to the liquor board or the courts to eventually decide.
- Before the commencement of the troubles of France, the universal cry in that country was "liberty and trade," and now their ports were completely shut to trade*
- Is better than a potential team of, if they trade for him, Rose, Gordon, Deng/Salmons (* one of them go in a trade*), CHRIS BOSH, and TT/Noah, obviously wants the Bulls to be garbage or ...
- And there were beads and blankets and scarlet cloths, such as I got in trade from the people who lived to the east, and who got them in trade from the people who lived still beyond in the east.
- This miscreant lives unnoticed, in a little village near Paris, upon a slender income, which he has made in trade, not in the _trade of blood_; for it appears that Robespierre was not a very liberal patron of his servants.
- According to divers masters in the art of ethics now flourishing among ourselves, more especially in the atmosphere of the journals of the commercial communities, the people that "_can_ trade and _won't_ trade, _must be made to trade_."
- With a view to give both these questions a full and separate discussion, he had framed tvty distinct resolutions, one oi jrlpch (the second in the series) went to declare that the restraint upon the China trade, as now bylaw esta - blished* should still exist; in fatt, that the East India com-* pany should beseemed in their monopoly of that trade*.
- The system of Dr. Smith tended to the production of that natural freedom of trade, each step toward which would have been attended with improvement in the condition of the people, and increase in the _power to trade_, thus affording proof conclusive of the soundness of the doctrine; whereas every step in the direction now known as free trade is attended with deterioration of condition, and _increased necessity_ for trade, with _diminished power_ to trade.