trade

Signification

Noun

1. Buying and selling of goods and services on a market.
2. A particular instance of buying or selling.
3. An instance of bartering items in exchange for one another.
4. Those who perform a particular kind of skilled work.
5. Those engaged in an industry or group of related industries.
6. The skilled practice of a practical occupation.
7. An occupation in the secondary sector, as opposed to an agricultural, professional or military one.
8. The business given to a commercial establishment by its customers.
9. Steady winds blowing from east to west above and below the equator.
10. A publication intended for participants in an industry or related group of industries.
11. (slang) A masculine man available for casual sex with men, often for pay. (Compare rough trade.)
12. (obsolete) Instruments of any occupation.
13. Refuse or rubbish from a mine.
14. (obsolete) A track or trail; a way; a path; passage.
15. (obsolete) Course; custom; practice; occupation.

Verb

1. To engage in trade.
2. To be traded at a certain price or under certain conditions.
3. To give (something) in exchange (for).
4. To mutually exchange (something) (with).
5. To use or exploit a particular aspect, such as a name, reputation, or image, to gain advantage or benefit.
6. To give someone a plant and receive a different one in return.
7. To do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood.
8. To have dealings; to be concerned or associated (with).
9. To recommend and get recommendations.

Adj

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

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/tɹeɪd/

Étymologie

From Middle English trade (“path, course of conduct”), introduced into English by Hanseatic merchants, from Middle Low German trade (“track, course”), from Old Saxon trada (“spoor, track”), from Proto-Germanic *tradō (“track, way”), and cognate with Old English tredan (“to tread”); ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dreh₂- (“to tread, walk, step, run”).

Phrases

It has a strong trade and advanced service sector .

Il dispose d'un fort secteur commercial et de services avancés.

During the medieval period it became a centre for the wool trade .

Pendant la période médiévale, il est devenu un centre pour le commerce de la laine.