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Wiktionary0.0 / 0 votes

  1. tradeverb

    Synonyms:
    commerce

  2. tradenoun

    To engage in trade

    This company trades in precious metal.

    Synonyms:
    deal

  3. tradeverb

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

    stock trade

    Synonyms:
    deal, barter

  4. tradenoun

    To give (something) in exchange for.

    Will you trade your precious watch for my earring?

    Synonyms:
    switch, swap, exchange

  5. tradenoun

    Those who perform a particular kind of skilled work.

    The skilled trades were the first to organize modern labor unions.

    Synonyms:
    business, make a deal, do business

  6. tradenoun

    The skilled practice of a practical occupation.

    He learned his trade as an apprentice.

    Synonyms:
    craft

  7. tradenoun

    The business given to a commercial establishment by its customers.

    Even before noon there was considerable trade.

    Synonyms:
    patronage

English Synonyms and Antonyms2.0 / 3 votes

  1. trade

    A business is what one follows regularly; an occupation is what he happens at any time to be engaged in; trout-fishing may be one's occupation for a time, as a relief from business; business is ordinarily for profit, while the occupation may be a matter of learning, philanthropy, or religion. A profession implies scholarship; as, the learned professions. Pursuit is an occupation which one follows with ardor. An avocation is what calls one away from other work; a vocation or calling, that to which one is called by some special fitness or sense of duty; thus, we speak of the gospel ministry as a vocation or calling, rather than a business. Trade or trading is, in general, the exchanging of one thing for another; in the special sense, a trade is an occupation involving manual training and skilled labor; as, the ancient Jews held that every boy should learn a trade. A transaction is a single action, whether in business, diplomacy, or otherwise; affair has a similar, but lighter meaning; as, this little affair; an important transaction. The plural affairs has a distinctive meaning, including all activities where men deal with one another on any considerable scale; as, a man of affairs. A job is a piece of work viewed as a single undertaking, and ordinarily paid for as such. Trade and commerce may be used as equivalents, but trade is capable of a more limited application; we speak of the trade of a village, the commerce of a nation. Barter is the direct exchange of commodities; business, trade, and commerce are chiefly transacted by means of money, bills of exchange, etc. Business, occupation, etc., may be what one does independently; employment may be in the service of another. Work is any application of energy to secure a result, or the result thus secured; thus, we speak of the work of God. Art in the industrial sense is a system of rules and accepted methods for the accomplishment of some practical result; as, the art of printing; collectively, the arts. A craft is some occupation requiring technical skill or manual dexterity, or the persons, collectively, engaged in its exercise; as, the weaver's craft.

    Synonyms:
    affair, art, avocation, barter, business, calling, commerce, concern, craft, duty, employment, handicraft, job, occupation, profession, trading, traffic, transaction, vocation, work

    Preposition:
    The business of a druggist; in business with his father; doing business for his father; have you business with me? business in New York; business about, concerning, or in regard to certain property.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms5.0 / 1 vote

  1. tradenoun

    Synonyms:
    traffic, commerce, dealing, exchange, buying and selling, employment, occupation

Princeton's WordNet1.0 / 8 votes

  1. tradenoun

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

    "Venice was an important center of trade with the East"; "they are accused of conspiring to constrain trade"

    Synonyms:
    business deal, deal, swop, patronage, trade wind, barter, craft, swap

  2. trade, craftnoun

    the skilled practice of a practical occupation

    "he learned his trade as an apprentice"

    Synonyms:
    foxiness, cunning, deal, trade wind, craftsmanship, business deal, workmanship, craftiness, patronage, barter, wiliness, guile, craft, slyness, swap, swop

  3. trade, patronagenoun

    the business given to a commercial establishment by its customers

    "even before noon there was a considerable patronage"

    Synonyms:
    condescension, business deal, backup, deal, swop, patronage, trade wind, business, backing, barter, clientele, craft, championship, disdain, swap

  4. deal, trade, business dealnoun

    a particular instance of buying or selling

    "it was a package deal"; "I had no further trade with him"; "he's a master of the business deal"

    Synonyms:
    tidy sum, pot, peck, mint, swop, plenty, lot, batch, raft, quite a little, passel, softwood, bargain, pile, muckle, business deal, good deal, stack, mountain, deal, craft, trade wind, wad, flock, hatful, mickle, slew, heap, mess, sight, mass, spate, swap, great deal, barter, patronage, hand

  5. craft, tradenoun

    people who perform a particular kind of skilled work

    "he represented the craft of brewers"; "as they say in the trade"

    Synonyms:
    foxiness, cunning, trade wind, craftsmanship, business deal, workmanship, craftiness, guile, patronage, swop, barter, wiliness, craft, slyness, swap, deal

  6. trade wind, tradenoun

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

    "they rode the trade winds going west"

    Synonyms:
    business deal, deal, swop, patronage, trade wind, barter, craft, swap

  7. barter, swap, swop, tradeverb

    an equal exchange

    "we had no money so we had to live by barter"

    Synonyms:
    business deal, deal, swop, patronage, trade wind, barter, craft, swap

  8. trade, merchandiseverb

    engage in the trade of

    "he is merchandising telephone sets"

    Synonyms:
    switch, merchandise, deal, swop, trade in, sell, swap

  9. trade, trade inverb

    turn in as payment or part payment for a purchase

    "trade in an old car for a new one"

    Synonyms:
    switch, merchandise, deal, swop, trade in, sell, swap

  10. tradeverb

    be traded at a certain price or under certain conditions

    "The stock traded around $20 a share"

    Synonyms:
    deal, swop, switch, trade in, swap, merchandise, sell

  11. trade, swap, swop, switchverb

    exchange or give (something) in exchange for

    Synonyms:
    merchandise, change, throw, interchange, tack, alternate, deal, shift, switch over, exchange, trade in, flip-flop, switch, sell, change over, swap, flip, swop

  12. deal, sell, tradeverb

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

    "She deals in gold"; "The brothers sell shoes"

    Synonyms:
    betray, shell out, swop, plow, carry on, lot, swap, apportion, dish out, deal out, allot, care, portion out, sell, consider, take, treat, share, trade in, dispense, dole out, divvy up, grapple, switch, deal, parcel out, manage, merchandise, contend, administer, address, make out, mete out, distribute, handle, conduct, cover, cope, make do, get by, look at

Editors Contribution0.0 / 0 votes

  1. silent barter

    Submitted by anonymous on December 18, 2019  

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. tradenoun

    Synonyms:
    traffic, commerce, barter, dealing, business, purchase and sale, buying and selling, exchange of commodities

  2. tradenoun

    Synonyms:
    occupation (especially a mechanical one), employment, business, calling, pursuit, vocation, craft

  3. tradeverb

    Synonyms:
    traffic, deal, bargain, chaffer, carry on commerce, buy and sell, drive a trade, drive a bargain

  4. tradeverb

    Synonyms:
    exchange, barter, swap

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words1.0 / 1 vote

  1. tradenoun

    Synonyms:
    commerce, barter, traffic, business, handicraft

    Associated words:
    technical, technology, technicals, technicality, technological, polytechnic, polytechnics, vocational, mercury

  2. tradenoun

    Synonyms:
    craft

  3. tradeverb

    Synonyms:
    exchange, barter, traffic, swap

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How to use trade in a sentence?

  1. Garcia Padilla:

    We had on the agenda and achieved taking the first steps to open an office of Puerto Rico in Havana. What these offices do is promote trade and cultural exchanges.

  2. Jim Lewis:

    You can turn out the lights in Pyongyang, and they could turn out the lights in New York. Who loses more? There's no way for us to win a trade, so (with) cyber (and) military largely off the table, (that) leaves you with public diplomacy and law enforcement. I know that's not satisfying, but that's the way it is.

  3. Ayodele Odusola:

    If you look at Guinea, almost 85 percent of the potato trade with Sierra Leone is done by women, but because of the border closure, this activity was completely paralyzed, in Liberia (the impact of Ebola) crudely translates to families not being able to put any food on the table for a minimum of 15 days every year for the next three years.

  4. Hikaru Sato:

    Profit-taking makes sense now as ongoing U.S.-China trade talks, major concerns for the market, have provided no signs of exit plan while the market had risen smoothly for the past two months.

  5. Hillary Clinton:

    We want to expedite the negotiations as much as possible, so we are exploring ways that we can try to drive this agenda. I am absolutely convinced that opening up markets in Asia amongst all of us and doing so in a way that creates win-win situations so that people feel that trade is in their interests.


Translations for trade

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  • ambag, handel, ruilAfrikaans
  • تجارةArabic
  • obchodCzech
  • byttehandel, handelDanish
  • Kommerz, Tausch, Handel, Handwerk, Passat, Geschäft, Facharbeiter, PassatwindGerman
  • εμπόριοGreek
  • interŝanĝiEsperanto
  • gremio, comercio, comerciarSpanish
  • تجارتPersian
  • pasaati, pasaatituuli, kauppa, vaihtokauppa, ammatti, ammattilainen, ammattilehti, poka, kaupankäynti, ammattikunta, ammattitaitoFinnish
  • commerce, métier, échangerFrench
  • trádáilIrish
  • cochionneeaghtManx
  • סחר, מסחרHebrew
  • तिजारत, व्यापारHindi
  • kereskedelemHungarian
  • առևտուր, արհեստArmenian
  • iðn, viðskipti, verslun, skipti, kaup, skiptaIcelandic
  • commercio, mestiereItalian
  • סַחַרHebrew
  • 交易, 商売, 貿易風, 貿易, トレードJapanese
  • ყიდის, გადაცვლისGeorgian
  • 거래, 교환, 기술, 교역, 교환하다, 바꾸다, 무역Korean
  • kaulēšanās, tirgošanāsLatvian
  • mahi-ā-reheMāori
  • тргување, занает, трговија, струкаMacedonian
  • handel, gildeDutch
  • håndverk, fag, handelNorwegian
  • naʼiiniʼNavajo, Navaho
  • transakcja, profesja, handel, zawód, fachPolish
  • negócio, ofício, freguesia, comércio, troca, trocarPortuguese
  • meserieRomanian
  • обме́н, торго́вля, комме́рция, ремесло́, профе́ссия, пасса́т, сделкаRussian
  • обход, trgovina, izmena, занат, размена, измена, трговина, razmena, obhod, zanatSerbo-Croatian
  • handel, yrkesman, yrke, hantverk, fackmanSwedish
  • வர்த்தகTamil
  • వర్తకము, వాణిజ్యముTelugu
  • พาณิชย์, ธุรกิจ, การค้าThai
  • تجارتUrdu
  • buôn bán, thương mại, thương nghiệpVietnamese
  • 贸易Chinese

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