trade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹeɪd/
rhymes: -eɪd
Forms: form: trades
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”).
Senses: synonyms: commerce
glosses: The buying and selling of goods and services on a market.
examples: text: I did no trades with them once the rumors started.
synonyms: deal
barter
glosses: A particular instance of buying or selling.
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:
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:
glosses: An instance of bartering items in exchange for one another.
examples: text: The skilled trades were the first to organize modern labor unions.
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:
synonyms: business
glosses: Those who perform a particular kind of skilled work.
examples: text: It is not a retail showroom. It is only for the trade.
glosses: Those engaged in an industry or group of related industries.
examples: text: He learned his trade as an apprentice.
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.
examples: text: After failing his entrance exams, he decided to go into a trade.
text: Most veterans went into trade when the war ended.
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:
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:
glosses: An occupation in the secondary sector, as opposed to an agricultural, professional or military one.
examples: text: Even before noon there was considerable trade.
synonyms: patronage
glosses: The business given to a commercial establishment by its customers.
examples: text: They rode the trades going west.
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:
glosses: Steady winds blowing from east to west above and below the equator.
examples: text: Rumors about layoffs are all over the trades.
glosses: A publication intended for participants in an industry or related group of industries.
raw_tags: as plural
examples: text: Josh picked up some trade last night.
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:
topics: LGBT
glosses: A masculine man available for casual sex with men, often for pay. (Compare rough trade.)
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:
glosses: Instruments of any occupation.
glosses: Short for trade paperback
topics: business
mining
glosses: Refuse or rubbish from a mine.
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:
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:
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:
glosses: A track or trail; a way; a path; passage.
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:
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:
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:
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]:
glosses: A course; a custom; a practice; an occupation.
Hyponyms: sense: Hyponyms of trade (noun)
word: antitrade
sense: Hyponyms of trade (noun)
word: anti-trade
sense: Hyponyms of trade (noun)
word: basket trade
sense: Hyponyms of trade (noun)
word: block trade
sense: Hyponyms of trade (noun)
word: bread trade
sense: Hyponyms of trade (noun)
word: bullet trade
sense: Hyponyms of trade (noun)
word: carbon trade
sense: Hyponyms of trade (noun)
word: carousel trade
sense: Hyponyms of trade (noun)
word: carriage trade
sense: Hyponyms of trade (noun)
word: carry trade
sense: Hyponyms of trade (noun)
word: cash and carry trade
sense: Hyponyms of trade (noun)
word: coasting trade
sense: Hyponyms of trade (noun)
word: countertrade
sense: Hyponyms of trade (noun)
word: cross-trade
sense: Hyponyms of trade (noun)
word: day trade
sense: Hyponyms of trade (noun)
word: fair trade
sense: Hyponyms of trade (noun)
word: free trade
sense: Hyponyms of trade (noun)
word: fur trade
sense: Hyponyms of trade (noun)
word: horse trade
sense: Hyponyms of trade (noun)
word: invisible trade
sense: Hyponyms of trade (noun)
word: motor trade
sense: Hyponyms of trade (noun)
word: off-trade
sense: Hyponyms of trade (noun)
word: on-trade
sense: Hyponyms of trade (noun)
word: out trade
sense: Hyponyms of trade (noun)
word: paper trade
sense: Hyponyms of trade (noun)
word: rag trade
sense: Hyponyms of trade (noun)
word: rough trade
sense: Hyponyms of trade (noun)
word: slave trade
sense: Hyponyms of trade (noun)
word: spot trade
sense: Hyponyms of trade (noun)
word: tramp trade
sense: Hyponyms of trade (noun)
word: uptick trade
sense: Hyponyms of trade (noun)
word: visible trade
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: antitrade
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: anti-trade
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: balance of trade
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: barrier to trade
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: book trade
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: by trade
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: cap and trade
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: compensation trade
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: countertrade
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: courtesy of the trade
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: cross-trade
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: daily average revenue trades
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: dl trade
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: e-trade
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: fancy trade
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: foreign trade
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: freedom of trade
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: free trade area
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: have truck and trade with
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: high probability trade
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: insider trade
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: in trade
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: jackass of all trades
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: jack of all trades
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: jill-of-all-trades
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: Jill-of-all-trades
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: jill of all trades
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: Jill of all trades
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: needle trade
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: no-trade clause
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: noxious trade
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: off-trade
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: on-trade
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: restraint of trade
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: reverse of trade
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: shadow trade
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: shuttle trade
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: skin trade
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: stock and trade
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: stock-in-trade
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: straight trade
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: TACO trade
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: take out in trade
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: tally trade
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: terms of trade
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: tools of the trade
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: tools of trade
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: trade acceptance
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: trade agreement
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: trade balance
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: trade barrier
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: trade bloc
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: trade blotter
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: trade book
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: trade card
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: trade counter
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: trade date
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: trade deal
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: trade deficit
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: trade dispute
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: trade diversion
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: trade dollar
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: trade dress
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: trade fair
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: trade journal
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: trade language
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: trade-last
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: trade law
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word: tradeline
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: trade loading
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: trade magazine
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: trademark
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: trade mark
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: trade name
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: trade newspaper
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: trade-off
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: trade paper
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: trade paperback
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: trade press
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: trader
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: trade route
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: trade row
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: trade school
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: trade secret
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: trade-show
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: trade show
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: tradesman
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: tradesperson
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: trade standard
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: trade stimulator
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: trade study
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: trades union
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: trades unionist
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: trade surplus
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: trade term
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: trade test
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: trade union
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: trade unionist
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: trade war
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: trade wind
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: tread
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: trick of the trade
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: turtle trade
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: wash trade
sense: Terms derived from trade (noun)
word: world trade center