1. (n.)trade the act or process of buying, selling, or exchanging commodities, at either wholesale or retail, within a country or between countries: domestic trade; foreign trade.
2. trade a purchase or sale; business deal or transaction.
3. trade an exchange of items, usu. without payment of money.
4. trade any occupation pursued as a business or livelihood.
5. trade some line of skilled manual or mechanical work; craft.
6. trade people engaged in a particular line of business: a show open to the trade.
7. trade market: an increase in the tourist trade.
8. trade a field of business activity.
9. trade the customers of a business establishment.
10. trade trades,
11. (v.t.)trade to buy and sell; barter; traffic in.
12. trade to exchange: to trade seats.
13. (v.i.)trade to carry on trade: trading in silver and gold.
14. trade to traffic (usu. fol. by in): a tyrant who trades in human lives.
17. trade trade in, to give (a used article) as payment to be credited toward a purchase.
18. trade trade off, to exchange something for or with another.
19. trade trade on or upon, to turn to one's advantage, esp. selfishly or unfairly; exploit: to trade on the weaknesses of others.
20. (adj.)trade of or pertaining to trade or commerce.
21. trade used by, serving, or intended for a particular trade: trade journals.
22. trade Also, trades. of, composed of, or serving the members of a trade: a trade club.
Etymology: (1300–50; ME: course, path, track < MD, MLG (OS trada), c. OHG trata; akin to tread)
Definition of 'Trade'
Princeton's WordNet
1. (noun)trade the commercialexchange (buying and selling on domestic or international markets) of goods and services "Venice was an important center of trade with the East"; "they are accused of conspiring to constrain trade"
2. (noun)trade, craft the skilled practice of a practical occupation "he learned his trade as an apprentice"
4. (noun)deal, trade, business deal a particularinstance of buying or selling "it was a package deal"; "I had no further trade with him"; "he's a master of the business deal"
5. (noun)craft, trade people who perform a particularkind of skilled work "he represented the craft of brewers"; "as they say in the trade"
4. Trade specifically: The act or business of exchanging commodities by barter, or by buying and selling for money; commerce; traffic; barter
5. Trade the business which a person has learned, and which he engages in, for procuring subsistence, or for profit; occupation; especially, mechanical employment as distinguished from the liberal arts, the learned professions, and agriculture; as, we speak of the trade of a smith, of a carpenter, or mason, but not now of the trade of a farmer, or a lawyer, or a physician
7. Trade a company of men engaged in the same occupation; thus, booksellers and publishers speak of the customs of the trade, and are collectively designated as the trade
11. (verb)Trade to barter, or to buy and sell; to be engaged in the exchange, purchase, or sale of goods, wares, merchandise, or anything else; to traffic; to bargain; to carry on commerce as a business
Definitions of Trade 
Afrikaans: handel
Arabic: تِجارَه
Bulgarian: търговия
Brazilian: comércio
Czech: obchod
German: der Handel
Danish: handel; samhandel
Greek: εμπόριο
Spanish: comercio
Estonian: kaubavahetus, kaubitsemin
Farsi: تجارت
Finnish: kauppa
French: commerce
Hebrew: מִסחָר
Hindi: व्यापार
Croatian: trgovina
Hungarian: kereskedelem
Indonesian: perdagangan
Icelandic: viðskipti
Italian: commercio
Japanese: 貿易
Korean: 거래
Lithuanian: prekyba
Latvian: tirdzniecība
Malay: perdagangan
Dutch: handel
Norwegian: handel
Polish: handel
Persian: تجارت
Pashto: تجارت
Portuguese: comércio
Romanian: comerţ
Russian: торговля
Slovak: obchod
Slovenian: trgovina
Serbian: trgovina
Swedish: handel
Thai: การค้าขาย
Turkish: ticaret
Taiwanese: 貿易
Ukrainian: торгівля
Urdu: خريد و فروخت
Vietnamese: thương mại, sự buôn bán
Chinese: 贸易
