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(uncountable) Buying and selling of goods and services on a market.
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(countable) A particular instance of buying or selling.
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(countable) An instance of bartering items in exchange for one another.
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(countable) Those who perform a particular kind of skilled work.
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(countable) Those engaged in an industry or group of related industries.
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(countable) The skilled practice of a practical occupation.
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(countable or uncountable) An occupation in the secondary sector, as opposed to an agricultural, professional or military one.
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(uncountable, UK) The business given to a commercial establishment by its customers.
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(chiefly in the plural) Steady winds blowing from east to west above and below the equator.
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(only as plural) A publication intended for participants in an industry or related group of industries.
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(uncountable, gay slang) A masculine man available for casual sex with men, often for pay. (Compare rough trade.)
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(obsolete, uncountable) Instruments of any occupation.
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(mining) Refuse or rubbish from a mine.
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(obsolete) A track or trail; a way; a path; passage.
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(obsolete) Course; custom; practice; occupation.