Word Finder - trade

definition

Buying and selling of goods and services on a market.

synonyms

• commerce

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A particular instance of buying or selling.

example

I did no trades with them once the rumors started.

synonyms

• barter
• deal

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An instance of bartering items in exchange for one another.

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Those who perform a particular kind of skilled work.

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The skilled trades were the first to organize modern labor unions.

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• business

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Those engaged in an industry or group of related industries.

example

It is not a retail showroom. It is only for the trade.

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The skilled practice of a practical occupation.

example

He learned his trade as an apprentice.

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• craft

definition

An occupation in the secondary sector, as opposed to an agricultural, professional or military one.

example

After failing his entrance exams, he decided to go into a trade.

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The business given to a commercial establishment by its customers.

example

Even before noon there was considerable trade.

synonyms

• patronage

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(chiefly in the plural) Steady winds blowing from east to west above and below the equator.

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They rode the trades going west.

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(only as plural) A publication intended for participants in an industry or related group of industries.

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Rumors about layoffs are all over the trades.

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A brief sexual encounter.

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Josh picked up some trade last night.

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Instruments of any occupation.

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Refuse or rubbish from a mine.

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A track or trail; a way; a path; passage.

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Course; custom; practice; occupation.

definition

To engage in trade.

example

This company trades (in) precious metal.

synonyms

• deal

definition

To be traded at a certain price or under certain conditions.

example

Apple is trading at $200.

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To give (something) in exchange for.

example

Will you trade your precious watch for my earring?

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• exchange
• swap
• switch
• truck

definition

To give someone a plant and receive a different one in return.

definition

To do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood.

synonyms

• do business

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To have dealings; to be concerned or associated (with).

I have something you want and will trade her for it.

I would not trade a child for pride.

Would god take Destiny from them - a trade for the twins?

My memory is a big part of who I am and I have no desire to trade any of it away.

Carigara is open to coast trade, exports large quantities of hemp, raises much rice, and manufactures cotton and abaca fabrics.

He'd trade all the powers Damian granted him after the Schism for his sister's life.

He'd trade them for Bianca.

Joplin is the trade centre of a rich agricultural and fruit-growing district, but its growth has been chiefly due to its situation in one of the must productive zinc and lead regions in the country, for which it is the commercial centre.

Both of these are hugely important parts of life, and I know of no one who would trade them away for a pill they swallow in the morning that gives them all their nutrition for the day.

All that Dean could picture in his mind's eye was Annie Quincy, plying her despised trade in a darkened room.

One form of trade is to exchange your labor for money.

He gathered the tools of the trade, weapons for killing quickly this time, and stepped through the portal to the shadow world.

It is the only trade I have learned.

I will trade you her for the vial.

It would take hours to fill a single bladder to trade to the northerners for their support.

How can it be said that trade actually generates wealth?

Consider just a few of the mechanisms by which the Internet promotes trade that otherwise would not have occurred.

They coin money in honest and accurate measures and allow this money to trade freely on open markets.

It was selected by the French convention of 1886 as the seat of the overland trade between Tongking and Yunnan, and opened two years later.

His trade here was that of a ditcher.

Would you consider a trade, Darkyn?

Both parties must win for the trade to occur.

My purpose is to explain the net effect of free trade, technological advance, and outsourcing on the overall economic system of the planet.

When partners trade more, they fight less.

It is the principal seat of the linen trade in the county, and has extensive cloth and thread factories, bleachfields and chemical works.

The foreign trade is not large, and consists chiefly in the exportation of pineapples and other fruit.

It means I can trade you a good or service for an intermediate store of value known as money, and then trade that money to the person who actually has the goods I want.

These stores are able to increase trade a number of ways.

A massive collection of sinister looking implements was growing—tools of their trade, all apparently necessary in order to remain aloft when maneuvering up or down perpendicular columns of frozen water.

It is noted for the fine boxwood grown in the vicinity, is a port of call for Black Sea coasting steamers and carries on a considerable trade with Constantinople which might be increased were it not for the obstruction of the harbour by a bar.

The total exports of the province of Cagliari in 1905 attained a value of £1,388,735, of which £J50,023 was foreign trade, while the imports amounted to £1,085,514, of which £360,758 was foreign trade.

There are signs of trade with Etruria as early as the 7th century B.C. The Carthaginians made it into an important grainproducing centre; and the Romans set foot in the island more than once during the First Punic War.

Sheerness has some trade in corn and seed,, and there is steamboat connexion with Port Victoria, on the opposite side of the Medway; with Southend, on the opposite side of the Thames; and with Chatham and London, and the town is in some favour as a seaside resort.

He was named on the council of plantations and on that of trade.

An able paper written by him to the king in support of these principles, on the ground especially of their advantage to trade, has been preserved.

A large wholesale trade is carried on with all the settlements of the province.

He then returned to Bavaria, and his absence bringing him into ill odour at Vienna, he complained of the incompetence of the council of commerce and dedicated a tract on trade (CommercienTractat) to the emperor Leopold.

Alkmaar derives its chief importance from being the centre of the flourishing butter and cheese trade of this region of Holland.

Burton is the seat of an enormous brewing trade, representing nearly one-tenth of the total amount of this trade in the United Kingdom.

Burton was the scene of several engagements in the Civil War, when its large trade in clothing and alabaster was practically ruined.

The city has also a large trade in cotton, the annual receipts averaging about ioo,000 bales.

It was opened to foreign trade towards the latter end of the 18th century.

The maritime traffic is largely conducted by the steamers of the subsidized Austrian-Lloyd company, Trieste being the principal commercial centre; the coasting trade is carried on by small Greek and Turkish sailing vessels.

The trade of the northern and western districts has to some extent been diverted to Salonica since the opening of the railways from that town to Mitrovitza and Monastir.

Vessels of light draught easily ascend the Orinoco to this point, and a considerable trade is carried on, the exports being cocoa, sugar, cotton, hides, jerked beef and various forest products.

The trade of Market Bosworth is principally agricultural, and there are brickworks.

Trade is also brisk, and is facilitated by a canal connecting the town with Vienna, and used chiefly for the transport of coal and timber.

It lay on the ancient trade route from Sinope to the Euphrates, on the Persian "Royal Road" from Sardis to Susa, and on the great Roman highway from Ephesus to the East.

The centres of the cotton trade are Hubli and Gadag, junctions on the Southern Mahratta railway, which traverses the district in several directions.

Tecuci has a large transit trade in grain, timber, cattle and horses, on their way from northern and eastern Moldavia to the Danubian ports.