TRADING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does trading mean? 

• TRADING (noun)
  The noun TRADING has 1 sense:

1. buying or selling securities or commodities

  Familiarity information: TRADING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRADING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Buying or selling securities or commodities

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

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

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

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

bond-trading activity; bond trading (trading in bonds (usually by a broker on the floor of an exchange))

program trading (a trading technique involving large blocks of stock with trades triggered by computer programs)

short sale; short selling (sale of securities or commodity futures not owned by the seller (who hopes to buy them back later at a lower price))

short covering (the purchase of securities or commodities by a short seller to close out a short sale)

insider trading (buying or selling corporate stock by a corporate officer or other insider on the basis of information that has not been made public and is supposed to remain confidential)

Derivation:

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

 Context examples 

Grey Beaver was busy trading and getting wealthy.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

He would buy a schooner—one of those yacht- like, coppered crafts that sailed like witches—and go trading copra and pearling among the islands.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Some have suggested that trading commodities – most notably walrus tusks – with Europe may have been vital to sustaining the Greenlanders.

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

They found that trading just 9 per cent of the fish caught annually in Namibia locally would solve the country’s iron deficiency problems.

(Fairer fish trade could fix nutrient deficiencies in coastal countries, SciDev.Net)

Arrangements had been made to accompany the several dozen local Indians on their fall trading trip down the coast.

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

The third house rules agreements—the buying, selling, marketing, and trading—so it looks like a big month for negotiation and for setting at least one if not more contracts in place.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

“Eighty-one; no—eighty-two, eh? no—eighty-three? Yes, eighty-three. Ten years ago. From some little port in Madagascar. I was trading.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

It's nothing but limes now, for everyone is sucking them in their desks in schooltime, and trading them off for pencils, bead rings, paper dolls, or something else, at recess.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Might some of us, more than others, harbor Neanderthal-derived gene variants that may bias our brains toward trading sociability for visuospatial prowess – or vice versa?

(“Residual echo” of ancient humans in scans may hold clues to mental disorders, National Institutes of Health)

The South Korean conglomerate sustained a massive eight percent loss in its share price at the end of Tuesday's stock market trading session.

(Samsung Ends Production of Problem-Plagued Galaxy Note 7, Voanews)