trade

Meaning

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.

commerce

business

buy and sell

buying and selling

business deal

carry on trade

have dealings

business enterprise

trading operation

transact business

change for

commercial enterprise

horse trading

make a trade

traffic in

cross-border trade

commercial affair

engage in trade

of business

barter with

business agreement

trade for

carry on business

carry on commerce

tradecraft

trading operations

carrer

exchange things

bargain trafing

agricultural trade

business activity

business transaction

cheap

commercialize

commercial law

commercial transaction

international trade

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/tɹeɪd/

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”).

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