Synonyms for trade
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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 AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.0 / 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 AntonymsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. tradenoun

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

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:1.0 / 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

Matched Categories

1. • Business
   • Class
   • Commerce
   • Exchange
   • Occupation
   • Prevailing Wind
   • Sell
   • Transact

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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 WordsRate these synonyms:1.0 / 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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1. List of paraphrases for "trade":

   commerce, commercial, trading, business, exchanges, trafficking, exchange, comercio, trades, handel, commercio, handels, comercial, traffic, commerciales, handels-, mercantil, merchant, marketing, trade-, industry, trade-related, shopping, kereskedelmi, commerciale, market

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1. Beau Biden:

   But look what the overall trade policy has done even with North American Free Trade Agreement. We now have this gigantic deficit in trade with Mexico. Not because North American Free Trade Agreement wasn't made better, because overall trade policy and how he deals with North American Free Trade Agreement made everything worse.

2. Goethe:

   In all things, to serve from the lowest station upwards is necessary. To restrict yourself to a trade is best. For the narrow mind, whatever he attempts is still a trade; for the higher, an art; and the highest in doing one thing does all, or, to speak less paradoxically, in the one thing which he does rightly he sees the likeness of all that is done rightly.

3. Labor Secretary Seth Harris:

   Car companies are saying they're not able to continue production. Retailers are losing access to product. Agricultural products are rotting in their containers because they can't be shipped overseas, when all that economic impact began to be felt, it became very difficult for the President to do nothing. If Secretary Perez determines that there's no hope of reaching an agreement, the President could be forced to make a difficult choice. . Under the Taft-Hartley Act,, if the President concludes that a strike or labor dispute is a threat to the country's health or safety, he can go to court and seek an injunction to force everybody back to work. This is where a labor dispute could become a more complicated political issue. President Barack Obama is on track to send Congress legislation that will give President Barack Obama fast-track trade authority, an essential tool to win congressional approval of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade deal with 11 Pacific Rim nations, making it the largest trade deal in American history. The labor movement is generally strongly opposed to fast-track authority and the Trans Pacific Partnership.

4. Sam Stovall:

   It is trade and the effect of trade. The problem is right now it is what I call an 'unquantifiable potential outcome' - so nobody really knows what is going to happen, all we know is there is increasingly heated rhetoric regarding trade and if we are not careful we end up in a trade war that will definitely slow economic growth and possibly push us into recession.

5. Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif:

   In the five years strategic action plan signed yesterday we have aimed at boosting our bilateral trade to the level of US Dollars five billion by 2021, more land routes for trade on our border, trade exhibitions, industrial and agricultural cooperation and mutual recognition of standards will boost trade.