TRADE IN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does trade in mean? 

• TRADE IN (verb)
  The verb TRADE IN has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: TRADE IN used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRADE IN (verb)

Sense 1

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 in" 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 in"):

barter away (trade in in a bartering transaction)

Sentence frames:

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

Derivation:

trade-in (an item of property that is given in part payment for a new one)

 Context examples 

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)

This experience, with the prayers of his wife, made him forswear the ring for ever, and carry his great muscles into the one trade in which they seemed to give him an advantage.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He is a professional beggar, though in order to avoid the police regulations he pretends to a small trade in wax vestas.

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

What was the chief trade in this place?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Whatever caused the cessation of Europe’s trade in walrus ivory, it must have been significant for the end of the Norse Greenlanders.

(Lost Norse of Greenland fuelled the medieval ivory trade, ancient walrus DNA suggests, University of Cambridge)

This operator did his office after a different manner from those of his trade in Europe.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

However, I’ll try and set up a trade in pots and pans, and you shall stand in the market and sell them.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

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.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)