trade

Senso (Inglese)

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.

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/tɹeɪd/

Etimologia (Inglese)

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”).

Frasi

It has a strong trade and advanced service sector .

Ha un forte settore commerciale e di servizi avanzati.

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

Durante il periodo medievale divenne un centro per il commercio di lana.