trade (English, noun)
Pronunciation: tags: General-American
Received-Pronunciation
ipa: /tɹeɪd/
rhymes: -eɪd
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-Germanic *tradō (“track, way”), and cognate with Old English tredan (“to tread”); ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dreh₂- (“to tread, walk, step, run”).
Definitions: synonyms: commerce
glosses: Buying and selling of goods and services on a market.
tags: uncountable
examples: text: I did no trades with them once the rumors started.
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synonyms: deal
barter
glosses: A particular instance of buying or selling.
tags: countable
examples: text: EXCHANGE — A trade or swap of no material profit to either side.
ref: 1989, Bruce Pandolfini, Chess Openings: Traps and Zaps, →ISBN, Glossary, page 225:
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text: When Golden State matched the Knicks' offer sheet, the Warriors and Knicks worked out a trade that sent King to New York for Richardson.
ref: 2009, Elliott Kalb, Mark Weinstein, The 30 Greatest Sports Conspiracy Theories of All Time, →ISBN, page 60:
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glosses: An instance of bartering items in exchange for one another.
tags: countable
examples: text: The skilled trades were the first to organize modern labor unions.
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text: But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal.
ref: 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion:
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synonyms: business
glosses: Those who perform a particular kind of skilled work.
tags: countable
examples: text: It is not a retail showroom. It is only for the trade.
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glosses: Those engaged in an industry or group of related industries.
tags: countable
examples: text: He learned his trade as an apprentice.
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text: In the clearing stands a boxer and a fighter by his trade
ref: 1969, Paul Simon, Simon & Garfunkel, “The Boxer”, Bridge over Troubled Water, Columbia Records
synonyms: craft
glosses: The skilled practice of a practical occupation.
tags: countable
examples: text: After failing his entrance exams, he decided to go into a trade.
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text: Most veterans went into trade when the war ended.
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text: Subsequently some Scottish troops settled, took up trade as weavers, tailors, or mariners, and married Dutch women.
ref: 2007, Michael Lynch, The Oxford Companion to Scottish History, USA: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 228:
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text: Getting a job in your major is no breeze: Remember we made fun of those who took up a trade
ref: 2012, Liberty Carrington, Wide Eyes Closed, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 92:
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glosses: An occupation in the secondary sector, as opposed to an agricultural, professional or military one.
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: text: Even before noon there was considerable trade.
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synonyms: patronage
glosses: The business given to a commercial establishment by its customers.
tags: UK
uncountable
examples: text: They rode the trades going west.
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text: 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.
ref: 1826 [1816], James Horsburgh, India Directory, Or Directions for Sailing to and from the East Indies, China, New Holland, Cape of Good Hope, Brazil and the Interjacent Ports, page 28:
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glosses: Steady winds blowing from east to west above and below the equator.
tags: countable
in-plural
uncountable
examples: text: Rumors about layoffs are all over the trades.
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glosses: A publication intended for participants in an industry or related group of industries.
tags: countable
uncountable
raw_tags: as plural
examples: text: In a homosexual of this kind—corresponding to the test of eccentric behavior in the drawing-room—one usually finds a preference for "trade," i.e., sexually normal males, because, if another homosexual yields to him, he is only one of a class, but if he can believe that an exception is being made in his case, it seems a proof that he is being accepted for himself alone.
ref: 1950, W. H. Auden, “A Playboy of the Western World: St. Oscar, The Homintern Martyr”, in Partisan Review, pages 391–2:
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text: Josh picked up some trade last night.
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topics: LGBT
glosses: A masculine man available for casual sex with men, often for pay. (Compare rough trade.)
tags: slang
uncountable
examples: text: His House and household Gods! his trade of War, / His Bow and Quiver; and his trusty Cur.
ref: 1697, John Dryden, “The Third Book of the Georgics”, in The works of Virgil containing his Pastorals, Georgics and Aeneis, page 112:
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glosses: Instruments of any occupation.
tags: obsolete
uncountable
topics: business
mining
glosses: Refuse or rubbish from a mine.
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: text: A postern with a blind wicket there was, / A common trade to pass through Priam's house
ref: 1557, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, The Second Book of Virgil's Æneid:
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text: As Shepheardes curre, that in darke eveninges shade / Hath tracted forth some salvage beastes trade
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book II:
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text: 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.
ref: c. 1595, William Shakespeare, Richard II, act III, scene iii:
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glosses: A track or trail; a way; a path; passage.
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1545, Nicholas Udall, Paraphrase on Luke, translation of original by Desiderius Erasmus:
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text: There those five sisters had continual trade / And used to bathe themselves in that deceitful shade.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book II:
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text: Long did I love this lady, / Long was my travel, long my trade to win her.
ref: 1655, Philip Massinger, John Fletcher, A Very Woman:
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text: Thy sin's not accidental but a trade.
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
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glosses: Course; custom; practice; occupation.
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
Forms: form: trades
tags: plural
Hyponyms: antitrade
anti-trade
basket trade
block trade
bread trade
bullet trade
carbon trade
carousel trade
carriage trade
carry trade
cash and carry trade
coasting trade
countertrade
cross-trade
day trade
fair trade
free trade
fur trade
horse trade
invisible trade
motor trade
off-trade
on-trade
out trade
paper trade
rag trade
rough trade
slave trade
spot trade
tramp trade
uptick trade
visible trade
Derived terms: antitrade
anti-trade
balance of trade
barrier to trade
book trade
by trade
cap and trade
compensation trade
countertrade
courtesy of the trade
cross-trade
daily average revenue trades
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
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
stock and trade
stock-in-trade
straight trade
take out in trade
tally trade
terms of trade
trade acceptance
trade agreement
trade balance
trade barrier
trade bloc
trade blotter
trade book
trade card
trade counter
trade date
trade deal
trade deficit
trade dispute
trade diversion
trade dollar
trade dress
trade fair
trade journal
trade language
trade-last
trade law
tradeline
trade loading
trade magazine
trademark
trade mark
trade name
trade newspaper
trade-off
trade paper
trade paperback
trade press
trader
trade route
trade school
trade secret
trade show
tradesman
tradesperson
trade standard
trade stimulator
trade study
trades union
trades unionist
trade surplus
trade term
trade test
trade union
trade unionist
trade war
trade wind
tread
trick of the trade
wash trade
world trade center