noun
The buying and selling of goods and services on a market.
A particular instance of buying or selling, or a series of related transactions executed as a single investment.
I did no trades with them once the rumors started.
An idea or strategy for an investment on a market.
"Sell America" is the latest trade on Wall Street.
An instance of bartering items in exchange for one another.
EXCHANGE — A trade or swap of no material profit to either side.
When Golden State matched the Knicks' offer sheet, the Warriors and Knicks worked out a trade that sent King to New York for Richardson.
Those who perform a particular kind of skilled work.
The skilled trades were the first to organize modern labor unions.
But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal.
verb
To engage in trade.
This company trades (in) precious metal.
He withdrew money to his bank account after several years of trading stocks on E-Trade.
To be traded at a certain price or under certain conditions.
Apple is trading at $200.
ExxonMobil trades on the NYSE.
To give (something) in exchange (for).
Will you trade your precious watch for my earring?
To mutually exchange (something) (with).
The rival schoolboys traded insults and punches.
The [Halo effect] strikes our combined fleets. All ships piloted by biologicals are now [adrift]. I can trade Mendicant ship for ship now and still prevail.
To use or exploit a particular aspect, such as a name, reputation, or image, to gain advantage or benefit.
Some musicians try to trade on their past success by playing the same hits over and over again.
adj
Of a product, produced for sale in the ordinary bulk retail trade and hence of only the most basic quality.
"It is monstrous - grotesque." "But what made him draw such an animal?" "Trade gin, I should think."