Meaning of 'trade' (Webster Dictionary)
- imp. of Tread.
- A track; a trail; a way; a path; also, passage; travel;
resort.
- Course; custom; practice; occupation; employment.
- Business of any kind; matter of mutual consideration;
affair; dealing.
- Specifically: The act or business of exchanging commodities
by barter, or by buying and selling for money; commerce; traffic;
barter.
- 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.
- Instruments of any occupation.
- 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.
- The trade winds.
- Refuse or rubbish from a mine.
- 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.
- To buy and sell or exchange property in a single
instance.
- To have dealings; to be concerned or associated; --
usually followed by with.
- To sell or exchange in commerce; to barter.
Meaning of 'trade' (Princeton's WordNet)
Meaning (1):
- people who perform a particular kind of skilled work
Example in sentence:- as they say in the trade;
- he represented the craft of brewers
Meaning (2):
- the business given to a commercial establishment by its customers
Example in sentence:- even before noon there was a considerable patronage
Meaning (3):
- the skilled practice of a practical occupation
Example in sentence:- he learned his trade as an apprentice
Meaning (4):
- a particular instance of buying or selling
Example in sentence:- he's a master of the business deal;
- I had no further trade with him;
- it was a package deal
Meaning (5):
- the commercial exchange (buying and selling on domestic or international markets) of goods and services
Example in sentence:- they are accused of conspiring to constrain trade;
- Venice was an important center of trade with the East
Meaning (6):
- steady winds blowing from east to west above and below the equator
Example in sentence:- they rode the trade winds going west
Meaning (7):
- an equal exchange
Example in sentence:- we had no money so we had to live by barter
Meaning (8):
- engage in the trade of
Example in sentence:- he is merchandising telephone sets
Meaning (9):
- do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood
Example in sentence:- She deals in gold;
- The brothers sell shoes
Meaning (10):
- be traded at a certain price or under certain conditions
Example in sentence:- The stock traded around $20 a share
Meaning (11):
- turn in as payment or part payment for a purchase
Example in sentence:- trade in an old car for a new one
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