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trade

noun
/tɹeɪd/US

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”).

  1. derived from *dreh₂-✻ — “to tread, walk, step, run”
  2. derived from *tradō✻ — “track, way”
  3. derived from *tradu✻
  4. derived from trada — “spoor, track”
  5. derived from trade — “track, course”
  6. inherited from trade — “path, course of conduct”

Definitions

  1. The buying and selling of goods and services on a market.

  2. A particular instance of buying or selling, or a series of related transactions executed…

    A particular instance of buying or selling, or a series of related transactions executed as a single investment.

    • I did no trades with them once the rumors started.

  3. An idea or strategy for an investment on a market.

    • "Sell America" is the latest trade on Wall Street.
  4. ›+ 24 more definitions

    1. An instance of bartering items in exchange for one another.

      • EXCHANGE — A trade or swap of no material profit to either side.
      • When Golden State matched the Knicks' offer sheet, the Warriors and Knicks worked out a trade that sent King to New York for Richardson.

    2. Those who perform a particular kind of skilled work.

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

    3. Those engaged in an industry or group of related industries.

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

    4. The skilled practice of a practical occupation.

      • He learned his trade as an apprentice.
      • In the clearing stands a boxer and a fighter by his trade

    5. An occupation in the secondary sector, as opposed to an agricultural, professional or…

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

      • After failing his entrance exams, he decided to go into a trade.
      • Most veterans went into trade when the war ended.
      • Subsequently some Scottish troops settled, took up trade as weavers, tailors, or mariners, and married Dutch women.

    6. The business given to a commercial establishment by its customers.

      • Even before noon there was considerable trade.
      • Trade has been down in this cold weather.
      • The gift shop relies on passing trade from tourists.

    7. Steady winds blowing from east to west above and below the equator.

      • They rode the trades going west.
      • Calms and variable winds, are also experienced during every month of the year, in the space between the trades;[…] the vicinity of the north-east trade seems most liable to them.

    8. A publication intended for participants in an industry or related group of industries.

      • Rumors about layoffs are all over the trades.

    9. A masculine man available for casual sex with men, often for pay. (Compare rough trade.)

      • Josh picked up some trade last night.

    10. Instruments of any occupation.

      • His House and household Gods! his trade of War, / His Bow and Quiver; and his trusty Cur.

    11. Short for trade paperback

    12. Refuse or rubbish from a mine.

    13. A track or trail

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

      • A postern with a blind wicket there was, / A common trade to pass through Priam's house
      • As Shepheardes curre, that in darke eveninges shade / Hath tracted forth some salvage beastes trade
      • Or, I'll be buried in the king's highway, / Some way of common trade, where subjects' feet / May hourly trample on their sovereign's head.

    14. A course

      A course; a custom; a practice; an occupation.

      • The Jewes, emong whom alone and no moe, God hitherto semed for to reigne, by reason of their knowledge of the law, and of the autoritee of being in the right trade of religion.
      • There those five sisters had continual trade / And used to bathe themselves in that deceitful shade.
      • Long did I love this lady, / Long was my travel, long my trade to win her.

    15. To engage in trade.

      • This company trades (in) precious metal.
      • He withdrew money to his bank account after several years of trading stocks on E-Trade.
      • […]a free port, where Nations warring with one another resorted with their Goods, and traded as in a neutral Country.

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

      • Apple is trading at $200.
      • ExxonMobil trades on the NYSE.
      • The stock is trading rich relative to its sector.

    17. To give (something) in exchange (for).

      • Will you trade your precious watch for my earring?

    18. To mutually exchange (something) (with).

      • The rival schoolboys traded insults and punches.
      • The [Halo effect] strikes our combined fleets. All ships piloted by biologicals are now [adrift]. I can trade Mendicant ship for ship now and still prevail.

    19. To use or exploit a particular aspect, such as a name, reputation, or image, to gain…

      To use or exploit a particular aspect, such as a name, reputation, or image, to gain advantage or benefit.

      • Some musicians try to trade on their past success by playing the same hits over and over again.

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

    21. To do business

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

    22. To have dealings

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

      • Saucy and over bold, how did you dare / To trade and traffic with Macbeth

    23. To recommend and get recommendations.

    24. Of a product, produced for sale in the ordinary bulk retail trade and hence of only the…

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

      • "It is monstrous - grotesque." "But what made him draw such an animal?" "Trade gin, I should think."

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Derived

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 · +77 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at trade. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at trade. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at trade

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA