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
They were of a respectable family in the north of England; a circumstance more deeply impressed on their memories than that their brother’s fortune and their own had been acquired by trade.
Philips, who had been a clerk to their father and succeeded him in the business, and a brother settled in London in a respectable line of trade.
Sir William Lucas had been formerly in trade in Meryton, where he had made a tolerable fortune, and risen to the honour of knighthood by an address to the king during his mayoralty.
A CHARCOAL-BURNER carried on his trade in his own house.
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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