English Explanatory Dictionary

trade

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

The buying and selling of goods and services on a market.
A particular instance of buying or selling, or a series of related transactions executed as a single investment.
An idea or strategy for an investment on a market.
An instance of bartering items in exchange for one another.
Those who perform a particular kind of skilled work.
Those engaged in an industry or group of related industries.
The skilled practice of a practical occupation.
An occupation in the secondary sector, as opposed to an agricultural, professional or military one.
The business given to a commercial establishment by its customers.
Steady winds blowing from east to west above and below the equator.
A publication intended for participants in an industry or related group of industries.
A masculine man available for casual sex with men, often for pay. (Compare rough trade.)

verb

To engage in trade.
To be traded at a certain price or under certain conditions.
To give (something) in exchange (for).
To mutually exchange (something) (with).
To use or exploit a particular aspect, such as a name, reputation, or image, to gain advantage or benefit.
To give someone a plant and receive a different one in return.
To do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood.
To have dealings; to be concerned or associated (with).
To recommend and get recommendations.

adj

Of a product, produced for sale in the ordinary bulk retail trade and hence of only the most basic quality.

Pronunciation

/tɹeɪd/ En-uk-trade.ogg LL-Q1860 (eng)-Naomi Persephone Amethyst (NaomiAmethyst)-trade.wav En-us-trade.ogg

Word forms

trade trades trading traded

Etymology

From Middle English trade (“path, course of conduct”), introduced into English by Hanseatic merchants, from Middle Low German trade (“track, course”), from Old Saxon trada (“spoor, track”), from Proto-West Germanic *tradu, from Proto-Germanic *tradō (“track, way”), and cognate with Old English tredan (“to tread”); ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dreh₂- (“to tread, walk, step, run”). Cognate with Dutch trade, tra (“path, trail, course, trade”), German Low German Traad (“track, wagon trail”), Luxembourgish Tratt (“step, pace”), Icelandic tröð (“a lane between fences, enclosure, pen”).

Synonyms

commerce deal barter business craft takings custom footfall patronage exchange merchandise trade traffic truck wrixle swap switch exploit capitalize on take advantage of use leverage benefit from make use of milk do business

Related words

commerce commercialization commodification commoditization dealer dealing distributor economy marketer merchandizer merchandizing merchant monger peddler pedlar political economy purchaser retail retailer sales salesperson selling trader wholesale wholesaler retail store transfer buy sell

Derived words

antitrade anti-trade balance of trade barrier to trade board of trade book trade by trade cap and trade compensation trade countertrade courtesy of the trade cross-trade daily average revenue trades dl trade e-trade fancy trade foreign trade freedom of trade free trade area have truck and trade with high probability trade insider trade in trade jackass of all trades jack of all trades jill-of-all-trades jill of all trades needle trade no-trade clause noxious trade off-trade on-trade restraint of trade reverse of trade shadow trade shuttle trade skin trade stock and trade stock-in-trade straight trade TACO trade take out in trade tally trade terms of trade tools of the trade tools of trade trade acceptance trade agreement trade balance trade barrier trade bazooka trade bloc trade blotter trade book trade card trade counter trade date trade deal trade deficit trade dispute

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