trade
/tɹeɪd/ noun A2- The buying and selling of goods and services on a market.
- A particular instance of buying or selling, or a series of related transactions executed as a single investment. · I did no trades with them once the rumors started.
- An idea or strategy for an investment on a market. · "Sell America" is the latest trade on Wall Street.
- An instance of bartering items in exchange for one another.
- Those who perform a particular kind of skilled work. · The skilled trades were the first to organize modern labor unions.
- Those engaged in an industry or group of related industries. · It is not a retail showroom. It is only for the trade.
- The skilled practice of a practical occupation. · He learned his trade as an apprentice.
- An occupation in the secondary sector, as opposed to an agricultural, professional or military one. · After failing his entrance exams, he decided to go into a trade.· Most veterans went into trade when the war ended.
Plural trades
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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.
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