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traded, ppl. a. and a.|ˈtreɪdɪd| [f. trade v. and n. + -ed.] I. †1. Of a road: Much used or trodden; often traversed; frequented; also gen. habitually used.
1570–6Lambarde Peramb. Kent (1826) 6 A populous citie, and a well traded highway. 1591in Hakluyt Voy. (1600) III. 488 Heere be many Tygers..they vse the traded wayes. a1631[see trade v. 3]. †2. Versed, skilled, practised; experienced; conversant, familiar. Obs.
1548Gest Pr. Masse in Dugdale Life (1840) App. 94 A great clerke and moch traded in auncient wryters. 1589Nashe Pref. Greene's Menaphon (Arb.) 11 Sir Iohn Cheeke, a man of men, supernaturally traded in al tongues. 1606Shakes. Tr. & Cr. ii. ii. 64 Mine eyes and eares, Two traded Pylots 'twixt the dangerous shores Of Will, and Iudgement. 1654H. L'Estrange Chas. I (1655) 17 A gentleman peculiarly qualifyed for and long traded in Sea exploits. †3. Of a place: Frequented or resorted to for the purpose of trading. (Usu. with well, etc.) Obs.
1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. iv. vii. 118 b, [The] cities of great Persia, wel traded with merchandize. 1610Holland Camden's Brit. i. 450 A proper and fine burrough it is, well traded and pleasantly seated. 1652–62Heylin Cosmogr. ii. (1682) 94 Hannover,..well built, very strongly fortified, and not meanly traded. 1656J. Chaloner in D. King Vale Royall iv. 30 It [the Isle of Man] is traded with 4. Market-Towns, Castle-Town, Douglas, Peel-Town, and Ramsey. 1707W. Funnell Voy. (1729) 77 The biggest and best traded city in all America. 4. traded option, an option on a stock exchange (see option 4) which can itself be bought and sold.
[1973Business Week 16 June 78/1 The Chicago Board of Trade's new Options Exchange is drumming up interest in trading options to buy and sell stock—puts and calls.] 1978Daily Mail 11 Mar. 39 In a month, we shall see the opening in Amsterdam and London of markets in traded options, an innovation which took Chicago by storm in April 1973. 1984Daily Tel. 24 Apr. 16/2 Privately Stock Exchange officials are furious that..a major development in the traded options market has been marred by such uncertainty. II. 5. Having a trade (of such a kind).
1631T. Powell Tom All Trades (1876) 170 The favour of great traded Merchants. a1656Hales Gold. Rem. i. (1673) 67 To see another man meanly clad, meanly housed, meanly traded. |