Trade

[treɪd] or [tred]

Definition

(noun.) the skilled practice of a practical occupation; 'he learned his trade as an apprentice'.

(noun.) 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'.

(noun.) the business given to a commercial establishment by its customers; 'even before noon there was a considerable patronage'.

(verb.) exchange or give (something) in exchange for.

(verb.) turn in as payment or part payment for a purchase; 'trade in an old car for a new one'.

(verb.) engage in the trade of; 'he is merchandising telephone sets'.

(verb.) be traded at a certain price or under certain conditions; 'The stock traded around $20 a share'.

Checker: Peggy--From WordNet

Definition

(v.) A track; a trail; a way; a path; also, passage; travel; resort.

(v.) Course; custom; practice; occupation; employment.

(v.) Business of any kind; matter of mutual consideration; affair; dealing.

(v.) Specifically: The act or business of exchanging commodities by barter, or by buying and selling for money; commerce; traffic; barter.

(v.) 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.

(v.) Instruments of any occupation.

(v.) 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.

(v.) The trade winds.

(v.) Refuse or rubbish from a mine.

(v. i.) 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.

(v. i.) To buy and sell or exchange property in a single instance.

(v. i.) To have dealings; to be concerned or associated; -- usually followed by with.

(v. t.) To sell or exchange in commerce; to barter.

(-) imp. of Tread.

Checker: Otis

Synonyms and Synonymous

n. [1]. Traffic, commerce, barter, dealing, business, purchase and sale, buying and selling, exchange of commodities.[2]. Occupation (especially a mechanical one), employment, business, calling, pursuit, vocation, craft.

v. n. Traffic, deal, bargain, chaffer, carry on commerce, buy and sell, drive a trade, drive a bargain.

v. a. Exchange, barter, swap.

Inputed by Brice

Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Traffic, commerce, dealing, exchange, {buying_and_selling}, employment,occupation,[See VESTIGE]

Editor: Madge

Definition

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

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.

Typist: Wanda