trade
/tɹeɪd/ verb B2- To engage in trade. · This company trades (in) precious metal.· He withdrew money to his bank account after several years of trading stocks on E-Trade.
- To be traded at a certain price or under certain conditions. · Apple is trading at $200.· ExxonMobil trades on the NYSE.
- To give (something) in exchange (for). · Will you trade your precious watch for my earring?
- To mutually exchange (something) (with). · The rival schoolboys traded insults and punches.
- To use or exploit a particular aspect, such as a name, reputation, or image, to gain advantage or benefit. · Some musicians try to trade on their past success by playing the same hits over and over again.
- 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).
He/she/it trades · Past traded · Past participle traded · -ing form trading
Verb forms
- Base form
- trade
- He/she/it
- trades
- Past
- traded
- Past participle
- traded
- -ing form
- trading
Phrasal verbs and expressions
From the library
That is my trade."
Let him, on meeting a fellow-mortal, learn at a glance to distinguish the history of the man, and the trade or profession to which he belongs.
Dantès examined the various articles shown to him with the same attention that he had bestowed on the curiosities and strange tools exhibited in the shops at Marseilles as the works of the savages in the South Seas from whence they had been brought by the different trading vessels.
“May I ask, my lad,” I said, in the blandest voice, “what your trade may be?”
Other matches
- trade The buying and selling of goods and services on... A2
- trade Of a product, produced for sale in the ordinary... C2
- trade away To relinquish, to yield.
- trade down To lose value on the stock exchange.
- trade in To give a piece of merchandise as part of the p...
- trade off To choose
- trade up To gain value on the stock exchange.
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