trade
/treɪd/
noun
- The activity of buying and selling goods or services, especially between countries or businesses.
- International trade has grown rapidly in the last century.
- The company specializes in the trade of agricultural products.
- Trade between the two nations increased after the new agreement.
- A particular type of business or industry, especially one that involves skilled manual work.
- She works in the fashion trade as a designer.
- Many people in this town are in the fishing trade.
- He learned the trade of carpentry from his father.
- The exchange of one thing for another, often as part of a deal or agreement.
- The trade of favors is common in politics.
- We offered a trade of our old sofa for their dining table.
- The children made a trade of baseball cards at recess.
Synonyms
verb
- To buy and sell goods or services as a business or occupation.
- Merchants have traded along this route for centuries.
- She trades stocks and bonds for a living.
- The company trades in electronics and computer parts.
- To exchange something for something else, especially as part of a deal.
- They traded seats so the couple could sit together.
- The two players traded jerseys after the game.
- I traded my old phone for a newer model.
- To be bought and sold on a market, especially stocks or currencies.
- The company's shares trade on the New York Stock Exchange.
- Oil is trading at seventy dollars a barrel today.
- The currency trades at a stable rate against the dollar.