What does trade mean?

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. tradenoun

    the commercial exchange (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. trade, craftnoun

    the skilled practice of a practical occupation

    "he learned his trade as an apprentice"

  3. trade, patronagenoun

    the business given to a commercial establishment by its customers

    "even before noon there was a considerable patronage"

  4. deal, trade, business dealnoun

    a particular instance 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. craft, tradenoun

    people who perform a particular kind of skilled work

    "he represented the craft of brewers"; "as they say in the trade"

  6. trade wind, tradenoun

    steady winds blowing from east to west above and below the equator

    "they rode the trade winds going west"

  7. barter, swap, swop, tradeverb

    an equal exchange

    "we had no money so we had to live by barter"

  8. trade, merchandiseverb

    engage in the trade of

    "he is merchandising telephone sets"

  9. trade, trade inverb

    turn in as payment or part payment for a purchase

    "trade in an old car for a new one"

  10. tradeverb

    be traded at a certain price or under certain conditions

    "The stock traded around $20 a share"

  11. trade, swap, swop, switchverb

    exchange or give (something) in exchange for

  12. deal, sell, tradeverb

    do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood

    "She deals in gold"; "The brothers sell shoes"

Wiktionary

  1. tradenoun

    Buying and selling of goods and services on a market.

  2. tradenoun

    A particular instance of buying or selling.

    I did no trades with them once the rumors started.

  3. tradenoun

    An instance of bartering items in exchange for one another.

  4. tradenoun

    Those who perform a particular kind of skilled work.

    The skilled trades were the first to organize modern labor unions.

  5. tradenoun

    Those engaged in an industry or group of related industries.

    It is not a retail showroom. It is only for the trade.

  6. tradenoun

    The skilled practice of a practical occupation.

    He learned his trade as an apprentice.

  7. tradenoun

    The business given to a commercial establishment by its customers.

    Even before noon there was considerable trade.

  8. tradenoun

    Steady winds blowing from east to west above and below the equator.

    They rode the trades going west.

  9. tradenoun

    A publication intended for participants in an industry or related group of industries.

    Rumors about layoffs are all over the trades.

  10. tradeverb

    To engage in trade

    This company trades in precious metal.

  11. tradeverb

    To be traded at a certain price or under certain conditions.

    stock trade

  12. tradeverb

    To give (something) in exchange for.

    Will you trade your precious watch for my earring?

  13. tradeverb

    To do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood.

  14. tradenoun

    A brief sexual encounter.

    Josh picked up some trade last night.

  15. Etymology: From trade, cognate with tredan; See Online Etymology Dictionary

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. TRADEnoun

    Etymology: tratta, Italian.

    Whosoever commands the sea, commands the trade; whosoever commands the trade of the world, commands the riches of the world, and consequently the world itself. Ral.

    Trade increases in one place and decays in another. William Temple.

    Appoint to every one that is not able to live of his freehold a certain trade of life; the which trade he shall be bound to follow. Edmund Spenser, on Ireland.

    How dizzy! half way down
    Hangs one that gathers samphire, dreadful trade. William Shakespeare.

    I’ll mountebank their loves, and come home belov’d
    Of all the trades in Rome. William Shakespeare, Coriolanus.

    Fear and piety,
    Instruction, manners, mysteries, and trades,
    Decline to your confounding contraries. William Shakespeare.

    The rude Equicolæ
    Hunting their sport, and plund’ring was their trade. Dryd.

    Fight under him; there’s plunder to be had;
    A captain is a very gainful trade. John Dryden, Juv.

    The whole division that to Mars pertains,
    All trades of death, that deal in steel for gains. Dryden.

    The emperor Pertinax applied himself in his youth to a gainful trade; his father, judging him fit for a better employment, had a mind to turn his education another way; the son was obstinate in pursuing so profitable a trade, a sort of merchandise of wood. John Arbuthnot, on Coins.

    The shepherd bears
    His house and houshold gods, his trade of war,
    His bow and quiver, and his trusty cur. John Dryden, Virgil.

    Call some of young years to train them up in that trade; and so fit them for weighty affairs. Francis Bacon.

  2. To Tradeverb

    To sell or exchange in commerce.

    They were thy merchants: they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass in thy market. Ezek. xxvii. 13.

  3. To Tradeverb

    Etymology: from the noun.

    He commanded these servants to be called, to know how much every man had gained by trading. Luke xix. 15.

    Delos, a sacred place, grew a free port, where nations warring with one another resorted with their goods, and traded. John Arbuthnot, on Coins.

    Maximinus traded with the Goths in the product of his estate in Thracia. Arbuthnot.

    Saucy and overbold! how did you dare
    To trade and traffick with Macbeth,
    In riddles and affairs of death? William Shakespeare, Macbeth.

    They on the trading flood ply tow’rd the pole. John Milton.

ChatGPT

  1. trade

    Trade refers to the voluntary exchange of goods, services, or resources between two or more parties for mutual benefit. It involves the buying and selling of goods, services, or commodities, either within a country's borders (domestic trade) or across different countries (international trade). Trade plays a crucial role in stimulating economic growth, promoting specialization, increasing consumer choice, and fostering global interdependence. It can occur through various channels, such as direct negotiation between individuals or companies, through intermediaries like retailers or wholesalers, or through online platforms and marketplaces.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Trade

    a track; a trail; a way; a path; also, passage; travel; resort

  2. Trade

    course; custom; practice; occupation; employment

  3. Trade

    business of any kind; matter of mutual consideration; affair; dealing

  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

  6. Trade

    instruments of any occupation

  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

  8. Trade

    the trade winds

  9. Trade

    refuse or rubbish from a mine

  10. Tradeverb

    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

  11. Tradeverb

    to buy and sell or exchange property in a single instance

  12. Tradeverb

    to have dealings; to be concerned or associated; -- usually followed by with

  13. Tradeverb

    to sell or exchange in commerce; to barter

  14. Trade

    imp. of Tread

Wikidata

  1. Trade

    Trade also called goods exchange economy is the transfer of ownership of goods from one person or entity to another by getting something in exchange from the buyer. Trade is sometimes loosely called commerce or financial transaction or barter. A network that allows trade is called a market. The original form of trade was barter, the direct exchange of goods and services. Later one side of the barter were the metals, precious metals, bill, paper money. Modern traders instead generally negotiate through a medium of exchange, such as money. As a result, buying can be separated from selling, or earning. The invention of money greatly simplified and promoted trade. Trade between two traders is called bilateral trade, while trade between more than two traders is called multilateral trade. Trade exists for man due to specialization and division of labor, in which most people concentrate on a small aspect of production, trading for other products. Trade exists between regions because different regions have a comparative advantage in the production of some tradable commodity, or because different regions size allows for the benefits of mass production. As such, trade at market prices between locations benefits both locations.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Trade

    trād, n. buying and selling: commerce: occupation, craft; men engaged in the same occupation: rubbish.—v.i. to buy and sell: to act merely for money.—v.i. to traffic with.—adjs. Trād′ed (Shak.), versed, practised; Trade′ful (Spens.), commercial, busy in traffic.—ns. Trade′-hall, a hall for the meetings of any trade or guild; Trade′-mark, any name or distinctive device warranting goods for sale as the production of any individual or firm; Trade′-price, the price at which goods are sold to members of the same trade, or are sold by wholesale to retail dealers; Trā′der; Trade′-sale, an auction sale of goods by producers, &c., to persons in the trade.—n.pl. Trades′-folk, people employed in trade.—n. Trades′man, a common name for a shopkeeper: a mechanic:—fem. Trades′woman.—n.pl. Trades′peo′ple, people employed in various trades, esp. shopkeeping, &c.—ns. Trades′-un′ion, Trade′-un′ion, an organised association of the workmen of any trade or industry for the protection of their common interests; Trade′-un′ionism; Trade′-un′ionist; Trade′-wind, a wind blowing steadily toward the thermal equator and deflected westwardly by the eastward rotation of the earth.—adj. Trā′ding, carrying on commerce (also n.): (Milt.) frequented by traders, denoting places where the trade-winds blow.—Trade on, to take advantage of.—Board of Trade, a department of government for control of railways, mercantile marine, harbours, and commercial matters generally. [A.S. træd, pa.t. of tredan, to tread. Not Fr. traite, transport of goods—L. tractāre, freq. of trahĕre, to draw.]

  2. Trade

    trād, n. (Spens.) same as Tread: (Shak.) beaten path.

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. trade

    Implies the constant destination of any particular merchant vessels, as the Lisbon trade, West India trade, &c.

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'trade' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #478

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'trade' in Written Corpus Frequency: #683

  3. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'trade' in Nouns Frequency: #178

  4. Verbs Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'trade' in Verbs Frequency: #600

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Anagrams for trade »

  1. adret

  2. dater

  3. derat

  4. drate

  5. rated

  6. tared

  7. tread

  8. detar

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of trade in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of trade in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of trade in a Sentence

  1. Gary Bradshaw:

    We have seen crude go to $60 and yet the energy stocks trade as if oil is at $40.

  2. Julian Klymochko:

    In order for units to trade in-line with the underlying bullion, the unitholders require a physical redemption option at net asset value.

  3. Sarah Binder:

    Trumps deep unpopularity limits lawmaking in another way, first, the Democratic base shows little interest in their representatives making deals with Trump that would give President Trump credit and enhance President Trump position for 2020. NAFTA 2.0 is a prime example. Really not clear whether Democrats will get the concessions their base groups demand or the extent to which the Speaker might be dragging her heels. Either way, that trade agreement is moving very slowly. And because the president is so unpopular nationally and with independents, theres limited pressure on Democrats to resolve problems.

  4. Dan Wald:

    These small companies are high growth, and they trade at pretty high multiples, but there's not that much they can do to take costs out of them because you can't integrate them into your business.

  5. Stephen Huang:

    China's stock market has become increasingly immune to bad news from the trade war. No more panic selling.

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Translations for trade

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  • ambag, handel, ruilAfrikaans
  • تجارةArabic
  • obchodCzech
  • byttehandel, handelDanish
  • Kommerz, Tausch, Handel, Handwerk, Passat, Geschäft, Facharbeiter, PassatwindGerman
  • εμπόριοGreek
  • interŝanĝiEsperanto
  • gremio, comercio, comerciarSpanish
  • تجارتPersian
  • pasaati, pasaatituuli, kauppa, vaihtokauppa, ammatti, ammattilainen, ammattilehti, poka, kaupankäynti, ammattikunta, ammattitaitoFinnish
  • commerce, métier, échangerFrench
  • trádáilIrish
  • cochionneeaghtManx
  • סחר, מסחרHebrew
  • तिजारत, व्यापारHindi
  • kereskedelemHungarian
  • առևտուր, արհեստArmenian
  • iðn, viðskipti, verslun, skipti, kaup, skiptaIcelandic
  • commercio, mestiereItalian
  • סַחַרHebrew
  • 交易, 商売, 貿易風, 貿易, トレードJapanese
  • ყიდის, გადაცვლისGeorgian
  • 거래, 교환, 기술, 교역, 교환하다, 바꾸다, 무역Korean
  • kaulēšanās, tirgošanāsLatvian
  • mahi-ā-reheMāori
  • тргување, занает, трговија, струкаMacedonian
  • handel, gildeDutch
  • håndverk, fag, handelNorwegian
  • naʼiiniʼNavajo, Navaho
  • transakcja, profesja, handel, zawód, fachPolish
  • negócio, ofício, freguesia, comércio, troca, trocarPortuguese
  • meserieRomanian
  • обме́н, торго́вля, комме́рция, ремесло́, профе́ссия, пасса́т, сделкаRussian
  • обход, trgovina, izmena, занат, размена, измена, трговина, razmena, obhod, zanatSerbo-Croatian
  • handel, yrkesman, yrke, hantverk, fackmanSwedish
  • வர்த்தகTamil
  • వర్తకము, వాణిజ్యముTelugu
  • พาณิชย์, ธุรกิจ, การค้าThai
  • تجارتUrdu
  • buôn bán, thương mại, thương nghiệpVietnamese
  • 贸易Chinese

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