trade

Meanings

Noun

• Buying and selling of goods and services on a market.
• A particular instance of buying or selling.
• An instance of bartering items in exchange for one another.
• Those who perform a particular kind of skilled work.
• Those engaged in an industry or group of related industries.
• The skilled practice of a practical occupation.
• An occupation in the secondary sector, as opposed to an agricultural, professional or military one.
• The business given to a commercial establishment by its customers.
• Steady winds blowing from east to west above and below the equator.
• A publication intended for participants in an industry or related group of industries.
• A masculine man available for casual sex with men, often for pay.
• Instruments of any occupation.
• Refuse or rubbish from a mine.
• A track or trail; a way; a path; passage.
• Course; custom; practice; occupation.

Verb

• To engage in trade.
• To be traded at a certain price or under certain conditions.
• To give (something) in exchange for.
• To give someone a plant and receive a different one in return.
• To do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood.
• To have dealings; to be concerned or associated (with).

Adjective

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

Related

Narrower meaning words

• tramp trade
• uptick trade
• visible trade

Origin

• 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 *drā-, *der-.