TRADE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does trade mean? 

• TRADE (noun)
  The noun TRADE has 7 senses:

1. the commercial exchange (buying and selling on domestic or international markets) of goods and services

2. the skilled practice of a practical occupation

3. the business given to a commercial establishment by its customers

4. a particular instance of buying or selling

5. people who perform a particular kind of skilled work

6. steady winds blowing from east to west above and below the equator

7. an equal exchange

  Familiarity information: TRADE used as a noun is common.

• TRADE (verb)
  The verb TRADE has 5 senses:

1. engage in the trade of

2. turn in as payment or part payment for a purchase

3. be traded at a certain price or under certain conditions

4. exchange or give (something) in exchange for

5. do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood

  Familiarity information: TRADE used as a verb is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRADE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The commercial exchange (buying and selling on domestic or international markets) of goods and services

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

they are accused of conspiring to constrain trade

Hypernyms ("trade" is a kind of...):

commerce; commercialism; mercantilism (transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services))

Domain member category:

protect (use tariffs to favor domestic industry)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "trade"):

fair trade (trade that is conducted legally)

fair trade (trade that satisfies certain criteria on the supply chain of the goods involved, usually including fair payment for producers; often with other social and environmental considerations)

free trade (international trade free of government interference)

Derivation:

trade (turn in as payment or part payment for a purchase)

trade (engage in the trade of)

trade (be traded at a certain price or under certain conditions)

trade (do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The skilled practice of a practical occupation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

craft; trade

Context example:

he learned his trade as an apprentice

Hypernyms ("trade" is a kind of...):

business; job; line; line of work; occupation (the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "trade"):

auto mechanics (the craft of building and repairing automobiles)

wine making; winemaking (the craft and science of growing grapes and making wine)

upholstery (the craft of upholstering)

undertaking (the trade of a funeral director)

typography (the craft of composing type and printing from it)

tanning (making leather from rawhide)

mintage (act or process of minting coins)

handicraft (a craft that requires skillful hands)

tool-and-die work (the craft of making special tools and dies)

tailoring (the occupation of a tailor)

shingling (the laying on of shingles)

sheet-metal work (the craft of doing sheet metal work (as in ventilation systems))

roofing (the craft of a roofer)

cobbling; shoe repairing; shoemaking (the shoemaker's trade)

pyrotechnics; pyrotechny (the craft of making fireworks)

electrical work (the craft of an electrician)

pottery (the craft of making earthenware)

airplane mechanics (the craft of building and repairing airplanes)

basketry (the craft of basket making)

carpentry; woodwork; woodworking (the craft of a carpenter: making things out of wood)

drafting; mechanical drawing (the craft of drawing blueprints)

dressmaking (the craft of making dresses)

interior decorating; interior decoration (the trade or act of decorating the interior of a building or room, especially with regard to color combination, paint, fabrics, carpeting, etc.)

lumbering (the trade of cutting or preparing or selling timber)

masonry (the craft of a mason)

oculism (the craft of an oculist)

house painting; painting (the occupation of a house painter)

papermaking (the craft of making paper)

pilotage; piloting (the occupation of a pilot)

plumbery; plumbing (the occupation of a plumber (installing and repairing pipes and fixtures for water or gas or sewage in a building))

Sense 3

Meaning:

The business given to a commercial establishment by its customers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

patronage; trade

Context example:

even before noon there was a considerable patronage

Hypernyms ("trade" is a kind of...):

business (the volume of commercial activity)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "trade"):

custom (habitual patronage)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A particular instance of buying or selling

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

business deal; deal; trade

Context example:

he's a master of the business deal

Hypernyms ("trade" is a kind of...):

dealing; dealings; transaction (the act of transacting within or between groups (as carrying on commercial activities))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "trade"):

arms deal (a deal to provide military arms)

penny ante (a business deal on a trivial scale)

Derivation:

trade (do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood)

trade (turn in as payment or part payment for a purchase)

trade (engage in the trade of)

trade (be traded at a certain price or under certain conditions)

Sense 5

Meaning:

People who perform a particular kind of skilled work

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

craft; trade

Context example:

as they say in the trade

Hypernyms ("trade" is a kind of...):

class; social class; socio-economic class; stratum (people having the same social, economic, or educational status)

Sense 6

Meaning:

Steady winds blowing from east to west above and below the equator

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Synonyms:

trade; trade wind

Context example:

they rode the trade winds going west

Hypernyms ("trade" is a kind of...):

prevailing wind (the predominant wind direction)

Sense 7

Meaning:

An equal exchange

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

barter; swap; swop; trade

Context example:

we had no money so we had to live by barter

Hypernyms ("trade" is a kind of...):

exchange; interchange (reciprocal transfer of equivalent sums of money (especially the currencies of different countries))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "trade"):

horse trade; horse trading (the swapping of horses (accompanied by much bargaining))

Derivation:

trade (exchange or give (something) in exchange for)

trade (turn in as payment or part payment for a purchase)

• TRADE (verb)

Conjugation:

Sense 1

Meaning:

Engage in the trade of

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

merchandise; trade

Context example:

he is merchandising telephone sets

"Trade" entails doing...:

sell (exchange or deliver for money or its equivalent)

buy; purchase (obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction)

Domain category:

commerce; commercialism; mercantilism (transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services))

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "trade"):

black market; run (deal in illegally, such as arms or liquor)

traffic (trade or deal a commodity)

arbitrage (practice arbitrage, as in the stock market)

traffic (deal illegally)

market (engage in the commercial promotion, sale, or distribution of)

import (bring in from abroad)

export (sell or transfer abroad)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

trade (the commercial exchange (buying and selling on domestic or international markets) of goods and services)

trade (a particular instance of buying or selling)

trader (someone who purchases and maintains an inventory of goods to be sold)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Turn in as payment or part payment for a purchase

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

trade; trade in

Context example:

trade in an old car for a new one

Hypernyms (to "trade" is one way to...):

change; exchange; interchange (give to, and receive from, one another)

Domain category:

commerce; commercialism; mercantilism (transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services))

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "trade"):

barter away (trade in in a bartering transaction)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

Derivation:

trade (the commercial exchange (buying and selling on domestic or international markets) of goods and services)

trade (an equal exchange)

trade (a particular instance of buying or selling)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Be traded at a certain price or under certain conditions

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Context example:

The stock traded around $20 a share

Hypernyms (to "trade" is one way to...):

sell (be sold at a certain price or in a certain way)

Domain category:

commerce; commercialism; mercantilism (transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services))

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "trade"):

close (be priced or listed when trading stops)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP

Derivation:

trade (the commercial exchange (buying and selling on domestic or international markets) of goods and services)

trade (a particular instance of buying or selling)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Exchange or give (something) in exchange for

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

swap; switch; swop; trade

Hypernyms (to "trade" is one way to...):

change; exchange; interchange (give to, and receive from, one another)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

Sentence example:

They trade the tourists their cars

Derivation:

trade (an equal exchange)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

deal; sell; trade

Context example:

The brothers sell shoes

Hypernyms (to "trade" is one way to...):

transact (conduct business)

Verb group:

sell (be sold at a certain price or in a certain way)

deal (sell)

Domain category:

commerce; commercialism; mercantilism (transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services))

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "trade"):

push (sell or promote the sale of (illegal goods such as drugs))

deal (sell)

black marketeer (deal on the black market)

pyramid (use or deal in (as of stock or commercial transaction) in a pyramid deal)

market (deal in a market)

hawk; huckster; monger; peddle; pitch; vend (sell or offer for sale from place to place)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

trade (a particular instance of buying or selling)

trading (buying or selling securities or commodities)

trade (the commercial exchange (buying and selling on domestic or international markets) of goods and services)

 Context examples 

They are a well-known house in the trade, and have been this twenty years.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A leading trade association in the USA whose members are manufacturers of electro industry products.

(National Electrical Manufacturers Association, NCI Thesaurus)

‘Danger is part of my trade,’ I remarked.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

What was the chief trade in this place?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

“Of Murdstone and Grinby, in the wine trade,” he replied.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The study, which is the first global assessment of the impact of chytridiomycosis, highlights how global trade in wildlife has facilitated the rapid spread of the disease.

(Deadly fungal disease ‘caused greatest biodiversity loss ever recorded’, SciDev.Net)

In the spring, he went down the Yukon with the young men to trade at Cambell Fort.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Sometimes pieces from two different chromosomes will trade places with each other.

(Chromosomal Translocation Process, NCI Dictionary)

Neither OIT nor omalizumab (trade name Xolair) currently is approved for the treatment of food allergy.

(Omalizumab improves efficacy of oral immunotherapy for multiple food allergies, National Institutes of Health)

You see, she said frankly, writing must be a trade, like anything else.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)