trade

Meaning

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.

Concepts

trade

commerce

business

barter

exchange

occupation

profession

deal

craft

swap

traffic

sell

handicraft

transaction

buy and sell

do business

transact

swop

buying and selling

interchange

vocation

deal in

commercial

negotiate

trading

merchandise

dealings

shop

bargain

industry

switch

transactions

buy

calling

work

business deal

trade in

sales

dealing

career

change

vend

market

art

sale

peddle

job

metier

patronage

trade wind

handle

retailer

carry on trade

hawk

workmanship

replace

skill

commercialism

manufacturing

share

speciality

line

employment

marketing

clientele

have dealings

substitute

manual work

business enterprise

labour

discuss

craftmanship

cross-border trade

foreign trade

international trade

give and take

operations

commercial law

traffic in

commercial affair

engage in trade

enterprise

undertaking

of business

agreement

business agreement

business transaction

export

exportation

make a trade

home-made

specialty

agricultural trade

carry on commerce

carry on business

barter with

commutation

graft

practice

merchandiser

pursuit

service

carrer

compare

permute

change for

commute

reciprocate

trade for

commercialize

artfulness

trading operation

commercial transaction

occupancy

exchange things

smuggling

agree

befriend

transact business

mention

craftsmanship

tradecraft

trading operations

pitch

run

store

business activity

reversal

shift

substitution

transposition

conversion

selling

duty

alternate

take turns

company

horse trading

bargain trafing

mistake

mix up

take

associate

be

cure

deal with

process

treat

labor union

operation

confer

merchant

dispose of

professional

cheap

force

mercantilism

commercial enterprise

biz

present tense

trafficking

bill of exchange

slave trade

do

mediate

parley

activity

task

trace

accomplishment

guide

quote

prostitute

Pronounced as (IPA)

/tɹeɪd/

Etymology

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”).

Sentences

It has a strong trade and advanced service sector .

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