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The Meaning of trade
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(v.) A track; a trail; a way; a path; also, passage; travel; resort.
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(v.) Course; custom; practice; occupation; employment.
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(v.) Business of any kind; matter of mutual consideration; affair; dealing.
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(v.) Specifically: The act or business of exchanging commodities by barter, or by buying and selling for money; commerce; traffic; barter.
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(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.
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(v.) Instruments of any occupation.
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(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.
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(v.) The trade winds.
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(v.) Refuse or rubbish from a mine.
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(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.
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(v. i.) To buy and sell or exchange property in a single instance.
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(v. i.) To have dealings; to be concerned or associated; -- usually followed by with.
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(v. t.) To sell or exchange in commerce; to barter.
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() 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