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Trade

noun

1.

The commercial exchange (buying and selling on domestic or international markets) of goods and services. "They are accused of conspiring to constrain trade"

2.

The skilled practice of a practical occupation. Synonym: craft.

3.

The business given to a commercial establishment by its customers. Synonym: patronage.

4.

A particular instance of buying or selling. Synonyms: business deal, deal. "I had no further trade with him" , "He's a master of the business deal"

5.

People who perform a particular kind of skilled work. Synonym: craft. "As they say in the trade"

6.

Steady winds blowing from east to west above and below the equator. Synonym: trade wind.

7.

An equal exchange. Synonyms: barter, swap, swop.

verb

(past & past part. traded; pres. part. trading)

1.

Engage in the trade of. Synonym: merchandise.

2.

Turn in as payment or part payment for a purchase. Synonym: trade in.

3.

Be traded at a certain price or under certain conditions.

4.

Exchange or give (something) in exchange for. Synonyms: swap, switch, swop.

5.

Do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood. Synonyms: deal, sell. "The brothers sell shoes"

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"Trade" Quotes from Famous Books

... of the Mississippi to any nation"; but neither by nature nor party was he an expansionist. He would have been satisfied with the acquisition of the east bank of the river, including New Orleans. During the negotiations he confessed his doubts of success. He thought trade would soon make Natchez a second New Orleans. Hamilton, on the contrary, was an expansionist by principle and party. Three years before the purchase of Louisiana he said of that country and the Floridas, "I have been long in the habit of considering ...

— The United States of America Part I • Ediwn Erle Sparks

... nearly at an end—a summer that had brought rehabilitation to the Typometer Company, yet rehabilitation under strict rule, strict economy, endless work. Nominally the same thing, the typometer was now but one factor of trade among a dozen other patented inventions under the ...

— McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908. • Various

... next to Mere Cognette. She herself had preserved two pairs of candlesticks, carved in choice woods by her own father, who had the "turning" mania. From 1770 to 1780 it was the fashion among rich people to learn a trade, and Monsieur Lousteau, the father, was a turner, just as Louis XVI. was a locksmith. These candlesticks were ornamented with circlets made of the roots of rose, peach, and apricot trees. Madame Hochon actually ...

— The Two Brothers • Honore de Balzac

... proportions which the great witchcraft movement assumed in bygone years explains the magic properties which we find ascribed to so many plants in most countries. In the nefarious trade carried on by the representatives of this cruel system of sorcery certain plants were largely employed for working marvels, hence the mystic character which they have ever since retained. It was necessary, however, that these should ...

— The Folk-lore of Plants • T. F. Thiselton-Dyer

... work. As the "budget" called for $16,000 the National Board voted to give $5,000 providing the State association would raise $11,000. The headquarters were moved at once and furnished by friends. Later when they became too small the Board of Trade rooms were placed at the disposal of the suffragists through the kindness of E. M. Grant. From time to time organizers were sent to the State until there were twenty-eight and 400 organizations were formed. To relieve the president, Miss Alice Curtis ...

— The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI • Various

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