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Trade

treɪd

Trade definitions
noun
trade trades
  1. the action of buying and selling goods and services

    "a move to ban all trade in ivory"

    • the practice of making one's living in business, as opposed to in a profession or from unearned income

      "the aristocratic classes were contemptuous of those in trade"

    • (in sport) a transfer

      "players can demand a trade after five years of service"

  2. a skilled manual occupation that requires special training

    "the fundamentals of the construction trade"

    • the people engaged in a particular area of business

      "in the trade this sort of computer is called ‘a client-based system’"

    • people licensed to sell alcoholic drink
  3. a trade wind

    "the north-east trades"

verb
trade traded trades trading
  1. buy and sell goods and services

    "middlemen trading in luxury goods"

    • buy or sell (a particular item or product)

      "she has traded millions of dollars' worth of metals"

    • (especially of shares or currency) be bought and sold at a specified price

      "the dollar was trading where it was in January"

  2. exchange (something) for something else, typically as a commercial transaction

    "they trade mud-shark livers for fish oil"

    • give and receive (something, typically insults or blows)

      "they traded a few punches"

    • transfer (a player) to another team

      "would his behaviour cause them to trade him?"