trade

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English

Etymology

From Middle English trade (“path, course of conduct”), introduced into English by Hanseatic merchants, from Middle Low German trade (“track, course”), from Old Saxon trada (“spoor, track”), from Proto-Germanic *tradō (“track, way”), and cognate with Old English tredan (“to tread”); ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dreh₂- (“to tread, walk, step, run”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /tɹeɪd/
• Rhymes: -eɪd

Noun

trade (countable and uncountable, plural trades)

1. (uncountable) Buying and selling of goods and services on a market.

   Synonym: commerce

2. (countable) A particular instance of buying or selling.

   Synonyms: deal, barter

3. (countable) An instance of bartering items in exchange for one another.
4. (countable) Those who perform a particular kind of skilled work.

   Synonym: business
5. (countable) Those engaged in an industry or group of related industries.

7. (countable) The skilled practice of a practical occupation.

   Synonym: craft

   • 1969, Paul Simon, Simon & Garfunkel, “The Boxer”, Bridge over Troubled Water, Columbia Records:

     In the clearing stands a boxer and a fighter by his trade

8. (countable or uncountable) An occupation in the secondary sector, as opposed to an agricultural, professional or military one.
9. (uncountable, UK) The business given to a commercial establishment by its customers.

   Synonym: patronage

10. (chiefly in the plural) Steady winds blowing from east to west above and below the equator.
11. (only as plural) A publication intended for participants in an industry or related group of industries.

12. (uncountable, gay slang) A masculine man available for casual sex with men, often for pay. (Compare rough trade.)
13. (obsolete, uncountable) Instruments of any occupation.
14. (mining) Refuse or rubbish from a mine.
15. (obsolete) A track or trail; a way; a path; passage.
16. (obsolete) Course; custom; practice; occupation.

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Translations

Verb

trade (third-person singular simple present trades, present participle trading, simple past and past participle traded)

1. (ambitransitive) To engage in trade.

   Synonym: deal
2. (finance, intransitive, copulative) To be traded at a certain price or under certain conditions.

3. (transitive, with for) To give (something) in exchange (for).

   Synonyms: exchange, swap, switch, truck

4. (transitive) To mutually exchange (something) (with).
5. (transitive, with on) To use or exploit a particular aspect, such as a name, reputation, or image, to gain advantage or benefit.

   Synonyms: exploit, capitalize on, take advantage of, use, leverage, benefit from, make use of, milk

6. (horticulture, transitive or intransitive) To give someone a plant and receive a different one in return.
7. (ambitransitive) To do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood.

   Synonym: do business

8. (intransitive) To have dealings; to be concerned or associated (with).
9. (transitive) To recommend and get recommendations.

   Synonym: exchange

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Translations

Adjective

trade (not comparable)

1. Of a product, produced for sale in the ordinary bulk retail trade and hence of only the most basic quality.

See also

• buy
• sell

Anagrams

• E-tard, adret, dater, derat, drate, rated, tared, tread

Dutch

Verb

trade

1. (dated or formal) singular past subjunctive of treden

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʁɛd/

Verb

trade

1. inflection of trader:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• dater, tarde, tardé

Galician

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɾade/ [ˈt̪ɾa.ð̞ɪ]
• Rhymes: -ade
• Hyphenation: tra‧de

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese traado, independently attested (14th century); from Late Latin taratrum (“auger”), used by Isidore of Seville. Probably from Paleo-Hispanic or from Proto-Celtic *taratrom, from Proto-Indo-European *térh₁-tro-.

Cognate with Portuguese trado, Spanish taladro, Old Irish tarathar, Old Welsh tarater, Breton tarar.

Alternative forms

• trado

Noun

trade m (plural trades)

1. auger

   Synonyms: broca, barrena

Derived terms

• tradar

Related terms

• tarabelo

References

• “trade”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “trade”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “trade”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “trade” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “trade”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Etymology 2

Verb

trade

1. inflection of tradar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

German

Pronunciation

Verb

trade

1. inflection of traden:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

Latin

Verb

trāde

1. second-person singular present active imperative of trādō

References

• “trade”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers