trade
Part of speech: verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: agriculture
business
finance
horticulture
lifestyle
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”).
Inflected forms:
form: trades
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: trading
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: traded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: traded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To engage in trade.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To be traded at a certain price or under certain conditions.
pos: verb
tags: copulative
intransitive
examples: Apple is trading at $200.
ExxonMobil trades on the NYSE.
The stock is trading rich relative to its sector.
gloss: To give (something) in exchange (for).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Will you trade your precious watch for my earring?
gloss: To mutually exchange (something) (with).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
Kalinin Bay is also in trouble, trading fire with Japanese destroyers and taking hits from both them and cruisers at the same time. Unlike the Gambier Bay, however, it does not appear that these ships have realized they need to switch to high explosive from armor-piercing, and, despite being riddled with shellfire, the ship stays afloat, despite this rather-unequal battering going on for another twenty to thirty minutes.
gloss: To use or exploit a particular aspect, such as a name, reputation, or image, to gain advantage or benefit.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
with-on
examples: Some musicians try to trade on their past success by playing the same hits over and over again.
gloss: To give someone a plant and receive a different one in return.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
gloss: To do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
gloss: To have dealings; to be concerned or associated (with).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Saucy and over bold, how did you dare / To trade and traffic with Macbeth
gloss: To recommend and get recommendations.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: Of a product, produced for sale in the ordinary bulk retail trade and hence of only the most basic quality.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: "It is monstrous - grotesque." "But what made him draw such an animal?" "Trade gin, I should think."
Synonyms: exchange
merchandise
trade
traffic
truck
wrixle
Related words: commerce
commercialization
commodification
commoditization
dealer
dealing
distributor
economy
marketer
merchandizer
merchandizing
merchant
monger
peddler
pedlar
political economy
purchaser
retail
retailer
sales
salesperson
selling
trader
wholesale
wholesaler
retail store
transfer
Derived words: cross-trade
insider trading
mistrade
nontraded
outtrade
overtrade
retrade
tradability
tradable
trade away
trade blows
trade down
trade hands
trade in
trade off
trade paint
trade places
trade punches
trade up
untraded
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