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The Meaning of trade

  • (v.) A track; a trail; a way; a path; also, passage; travel; resort.
  • (v.) Course; custom; practice; occupation; employment.
  • (v.) Business of any kind; matter of mutual consideration; affair; dealing.
  • (v.) Specifically: The act or business of exchanging commodities by barter, or by buying and selling for money; commerce; traffic; barter.
  • (v.) The business which a person has learned, and which he engages in, for procuring subsistence, or for profit; occupation; especially, mechanical employment as distinguished from the liberal arts, the learned professions, and agriculture; as, we speak of the trade of a smith, of a carpenter, or mason, but not now of the trade of a farmer, or a lawyer, or a physician.
  • (v.) Instruments of any occupation.
  • (v.) A company of men engaged in the same occupation; thus, booksellers and publishers speak of the customs of the trade, and are collectively designated as the trade.
  • (v.) The trade winds.
  • (v.) Refuse or rubbish from a mine.
  • (v. i.) To barter, or to buy and sell; to be engaged in the exchange, purchase, or sale of goods, wares, merchandise, or anything else; to traffic; to bargain; to carry on commerce as a business.
  • (v. i.) To buy and sell or exchange property in a single instance.
  • (v. i.) To have dealings; to be concerned or associated; -- usually followed by with.
  • (v. t.) To sell or exchange in commerce; to barter.
  • () imp. of Tread.

Synonyms

business deal , deal , swop , patronage , trade wind , barter , craft , swap , foxiness , cunning , craftsmanship , workmanship , craftiness , wiliness , guile , slyness , condescension , backup , business , backing , clientele , championship , disdain , tidy sum , pot , peck , mint , plenty , lot , batch , raft , quite a little , passel , softwood , bargain , pile , muckle , good deal , stack , mountain , wad , flock , hatful , mickle , slew , heap , mess , sight , mass , spate , great deal , hand , switch , merchandise , trade in , sell , change , throw , interchange , tack , alternate , shift , switch over , exchange , flip-flop , change over , flip , betray , shell out , plow , carry on , apportion , dish out , deal out , allot , care , portion out , consider , take , treat , share , dispense , dole out , divvy up , grapple , parcel out , manage , contend , administer , address , make out , mete out , distribute , handle , conduct , cover , cope , make do , get by , look at , affair , commerce , handicraft , trading , art , concern , job , traffic , avocation , occupation , transaction , duty , profession , vocation , calling , employment , work

Rhymes

accolade , ade , adelaide , afraid , aid , aide , allayed , andrade , arcade , arrayed , bade , barricade , bayed , betrayed , blade , blockade , braid , brayed , bridesmaid , brigade , brocade , buffeted , cade , cascade , cavalcade , centigrade , charade , cliched , colonnade , conveyed , crusade , dade , decade , decayed , degrade , delayed , dismayed , disobeyed , displayed , dissuade , downgrade , escapade , evade , eyde , eyeshade , fade , filleted , flayed , forbade , frayed , fusillade , gade , glade , grade , granade , grayed , grenade , hade , haid , handmade , heyd , home-made , homemade , inlaid , invade , jade , kade , kincade , kincaid , lade , laid , lemonade , located , made , maid , manmade , marcade , marinade , marmalade , masquerade , mayde , mccade , mcdade , mcdaid , mcquaid , mcquaide , medicaid , mermaid , metrodade , mislaid , motorcade , nightshade , obeyed , okayed , outweighed , overpaid , overstayed , paid , palisade , parade , payed , persuade , pervade , played , portrayed , prepaid , promenade , quade , quaid , raid , rayed , remade , renegade , repaid , replayed , retrograde , sallade , sayed , schade , schrade , serenade , shade , slade , spade , spaid , spayd , spayde , sprayed , stade , staid , stayed , suede , swayed , switchblade , tirade , unafraid , underpaid , unmade , unpaid , unswayed , upbraid , upgrade , wade , waid , waide , weighed , zaid