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单词 trade
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trade
(trd )
Word forms: trades , trading , traded
1. uncountable noun B1+
Trade is the activity of buying, selling, or exchanging goods or services between people, firms, or countries.
The ministry had direct control over every aspect of foreign trade.
...negotiations on a new international trade agreement.
Texas has a long history of trade with Mexico. [+ with]
Synonyms: commerce, business, transactions, buying and selling  
2. verb B2
When people, firms, or countries trade, they buy, sell, or exchange goods or services between themselves.
They may refuse to trade, even when offered attractive prices. [VERB]
Australia and New Zealand trade extensively with each other. [VERB + with]
He has been trading in antique furniture for 25 years. [VERB + in]
trading uncountable noun B2
Trading on the stock exchange may be suspended.
Sunday trading laws will be reformed.
3. countable noun B2
A trade is a particular area of business or industry.
They've completely ruined the tourist trade for the next few years.
...the arms trade.
4. countable noun [oft poss NOUN, oft by NOUN] B2
Someone's trade is the kind of work that they do, especially when they have been trained to do it over a period of time.
He learnt his trade as a diver in the North Sea.
Allyn was a jeweller by trade.
She is a patron of small businesses and trades.
Synonyms: job, employment, calling, business  
5. verb B2
If someone trades one thing for another or if two people trade things, they agree to exchange one thing for the other thing. [mainly US]
They traded land for goods and money. [VERB noun + for]
He still claims the arms weren't traded for hostages. [V n for n (non-recip)]
Kids used to trade baseball cards. [VERB noun]
They suspected that Neville had traded secret information with Mr Foster. [VERB noun + with]
Synonyms: exchange, switch, swap, barter  
Trade is also a noun.
I am willing to make a trade with you. [+ with]
It wouldn't exactly have been a fair trade.
regional note:   in BRIT, use exchange
6. verb
If you trade places with someone or if the two of you trade places, you move into the other person's position or situation, and they move into yours. [mainly US]
Mike asked George to trade places with him so he could ride with Tod. [VERB noun + with]
Kennedy mischievously suggested that professors ought to trade jobs for a time with janitors. [VERB noun with noun]
The receiver and the quarterback are going to trade positions. [VERB noun]
7. verb B2
In professional sports, for example football or baseball, if a player is traded from one team to another, they leave one team and begin playing for another. [US]
He was traded from the Giants to the Yankees. [be VERB-ed]
The A's have not won a game since they traded him. [VERB noun]
regional note:   in BRIT, use transfer
8. verb B2
If two people or groups trade something such as blows, insults, or jokes, they hit each other, insult each other, or tell each other jokes. [mainly US]
Children would settle disputes by trading punches or insults in the schoolyard. [VERB noun]
They traded artillery fire with government forces inside the city. [VERB noun + with]
Phrasal verbs:
trade down
phrasal verb
If someone trades down, they sell something such as their car or house and buy a less expensive one.
They are selling their five-bedroom house and trading down to a two-bedroom cottage. [VERB PARTICLE + to]
trade in
1. phrasal verb
If you trade in an old car or appliance, you give it to the person you are buying a new one from so that you pay less.
For his birthday he was given a trumpet, but he traded it in for a guitar. [VERB noun PARTICLE]
She's decided to trade in her Volvo for a Volkswagen. [VERB PARTICLE noun]
2.  See also trade-in
trade off
1. phrasal verb
If you trade off one thing against another, you exchange all or part of one thing for another, as part of a negotiation or compromise.
Economic policy is about trading off costs against benefits. [V P n + against]
I get up early and trade off sleep for exercise. [V P n + for]
2.  See also trade-off
3. phrasal verb
If someone trades off something, they make use of it for their own advantage, often in an unfair way. [mainly British]
They would be able to trade off their looks and manage on that alone. [VERB PARTICLE noun]
trade on
phrasal verb
If someone trades on something, they make use of it for their own advantage, often in an unfair way.
He was a man who traded on the achievements of others. [VERB PARTICLE noun]
trade up
phrasal verb
If someone trades up, they sell something such as their car or their house and buy a more expensive one.
Mini-car owners are trading up to 'real' cars. [VERB PARTICLE + to]
Homeowners will feel more comfortable and they may feel ready to trade up. [VERB PARTICLE]
Idioms:
the tools of the trade
the skills and equipment that you need to do your job properly
As a pianist, Grace's fingers were the tools of her trade.
Collocations:
foreign trade
During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries foreign trade grew rapidly, and trade ventures were extended to more distant parts of the Far East.
Macrosociology: An Introduction to Human Societies (1995)
The government is hoping foreign trade will power our recovery while consumer spending at home is weak.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
The number of organizations and enterprises becoming involved in foreign trade has grown year by year.
Inside Perestroika: The Future of the Soviet Economy (1990)
global trade
In 1992 the global flower trade was worth 62 billion but by 2012 had increased by two thirds to 100 billion.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Apart from the miserable decade of the 1970s, postwar global trade has grown much faster than output.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
The global trade in counterfeit medicines is growing rapidly.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
illegal trade
The elephant population is at increasing risk, as a sharp increase in the illegal trade in the animals is compounded by the destruction of their natural habitat.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
It looks after 700 creatures of all shapes and sizes, most of whom are victims of the illegal pet trade.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Since 2007 the illegal ivory trade has ballooned.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
lucrative trade
It was 2011, with Christmas just around the corner, and they were one of 10 banks vying for a lucrative currency trade.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
What has been your most lucrative trade?
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Yet there is an unpalatable side to this lucrative trade.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
overseas trade
The second reason why the English fought France was to further their overseas trade.
The British way in Warfare - 1688-2000 (1990)
But overall, smaller firms are still shunning overseas trade.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
The great fortunes of the eighteenth century were made by overseas trade.
The Search for Justice - a history of Britain and the British people Volume III (1990)
trade economy
The nation lost half of its oil imports, and 85 percent of its international trade economy.
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In the sea also where the barter trade economy been used.
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In doing so it quickly began to open its borders to the trade of various other countries thus adding itself to a global trade economy.
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Though the ruling class essentially controlled the trade economy, a middle merchant class supervised import and export from cities and trade ports.
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But as an open, trading economy, this country depends on growth in its principal export markets.
Times, Sunday Times
trade treaty
A piece of paper, not a trade treaty.
Times, Sunday Times
However, under the new deal equivalence will be extended and fall under the governance of the wider trade treaty.
Times, Sunday Times
Individual trade treaty negotiations could result in deals to speed up applications, replace visas with a less bureaucratic 'permit' system and smooth the path for some types of services businesses.
Times, Sunday Times
The sides also reached an agreement on prisoner exchange and a trade treaty.
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It was not until 1882 when a trade treaty was finally signed.
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transatlantic trade
The two sides cannot afford to squander the current opportunity presented by the transatlantic trade deal.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
If you want to expand transatlantic trade you do not do it from Norfolk.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Negotiations began in June with the intention of removing barriers to transatlantic trade, focusing in particular on regulatory hurdles.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Britain, for example, was very comfortable at that time with the present system under which it had almost balanced its transatlantic trade.
Abshire, David M. Preventing World War III - A Realistic Grand Strategy (1988)
A BIGGER test of transatlantic trade relations is hard to imagine.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
two-way trade
That step would help to identify the industries where vertical differentiation makes the most important positive contribution to two-way trade.
Forstner, Helmut, Ballance, Robert Competing in a Global Economy (1990)
The value chosen to represent two-way trade is then the lower of these two figures.
Forstner, Helmut, Ballance, Robert Competing in a Global Economy (1990)
The degree of competitiveness in the two-way trade of these industries is often positively influenced by economies of scale.
Forstner, Helmut, Ballance, Robert Competing in a Global Economy (1990)
volume of trade
The final price tag will vary according to the size of each business and volume of trade.
Times,Sunday Times
For example, the volume of trade has stopped falling as fast as it was a few months ago.
ST
Other arrangements could include appling new customs tariffs in aggregate - based on estimates of the volume of trade on the route - rather than on individual items.
Times, Sunday Times
Although the two countries signed trade agreements in 1933, 1955, and 1959, the volume of trade between them remains very low.
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These problems, together with an increasing volume of trade, led to a new government act of 1837.
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wholesale trade
Then, in 1986, it closed them all to concentrate on the wholesale trade.
Times, Sunday Times
Sales at its own stores may be sluggish, but the chain revealed that its wholesale trade with department stores and independent shops was soaring.
Times, Sunday Times
Many in the wholesale trade view some of the market stalls as a means of selling wholesale vegetables at premium prices to gullible urbanites.
Times, Sunday Times
The company's main activities include retail and wholesale trade of oil and oil derivatives.
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He owned a general store and was also involved in lumber, wholesale trade, real estate and money-lending.
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worldwide trade
The top 500 multinational companies account for almost 70% of worldwide trade, a percentage that has risen steadily over the past 20 years.
Times, Sunday Times
Logistics and technical support, relatively small parts of the business, have become increasingly important as worldwide trade falters.
Times, Sunday Times
Without it the current levels of worldwide trade could not be sustained.
Times, Sunday Times
The system's improved exchange rate stability facilitated record growth in worldwide trade and investment.
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The agreement aims at liberalizing the worldwide trade of services such as banking and transport.
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Translations:
Chinese: 贸易, 贸易, 交换位置
Japanese: 商売, 業界, 入れ替える
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