Trading, trafficking. Cf. mongering, n. 2.

Bargaining; buying and selling, marketing, mercantile dealing.

A bargain about the bartering or exchanging of one commodity for another, or of giving money or the like for any commodity; bargaining, trade…

Traffic, trade; buying and selling, dealing. Obsolete except as in 1b.

The action or business of buying and selling goods or commodities for profit; the business of a merchant; commerce, trading. Obsolete.

gen. Trading, buying and selling, marketing. Obsolete.

Trade, commerce; trading, bargaining.

Brokery; jobbery; buying and selling, barter.

The action of chaffer, v. Buying and selling, dealing, trading.

(in plural) business, commerce.

spec. Exchange of goods, merchandise, or money; commerce; (also) an instance of this; = exchange, n. 1b. Obsolete.

= chapmanship, n.

(in 5 coseri), barter, bargaining.

Trafficking, trading, buying and selling.

The transaction of mercantile business, the buying and selling of goods; bargaining; trade. Now rare.

Trade, commerce; the business of a merchant. Also (occasionally): merchandise.

Communication to and fro between countries, etc.; mutual dealings between the inhabitants of different localities. In early use exclusively with…

Trade and all activity relating to it, esp. considered in terms of volume or profitability; commercial transactions, engagements, and undertakings…

The employment or dealing of a chapman; mercantile business. (With quot. 1790, cf. chap-money, n.)

A kind of action; one of the operations practised in any art or profession; also, in more comprehensive sense, a department of action, a pursuit…

The action or business of buying and selling; a commercial transaction, a purchase or sale; a (good or bad) bargain. Now historical and Scottish.

The buying and selling of goods and commodities, esp. that conducted between nations on a large scale; commerce, traffic, business, originally…

The action of trading or doing business, esp. at a market; the action of treating something as though it were merchandise. Now only in data marting n.…

Mutual dealing, bargaining, trading.

The action of trade, v. (in various senses); esp. the action of engaging in trade; the buying and selling of goods, commodities, or services…

The business of a merchant; trade, commercial dealings. Also (occasionally) figurative.

The action of buying or selling, esp. in a market; an instance of this. Now also (U.S.): shopping, esp. for groceries. Also figurative or in…

Buying and selling; trade; trading. Also: a bargain or transaction (esp. in to make a (also one's) mart; frequently in extended use). Obsolete (ar…

The action of traffic, v. in various other senses; (in early use chiefly) the activity of engaging in trade; buying and selling; commerce; (later…

= contractation, n. Obsolete.

Trade, traffic. Obsolete. rare.

Buying and selling, trade; an instance of this.

Exchange between men of the products of nature or art; buying and selling together; trading; exchange of merchandise, esp. as conducted on a…

Buying and selling, traffic.

Trading, commerce. Obsolete.

Traffic between two or more persons or places; reciprocal commerce or intercourse.

The commercial transportation of goods or commodities on a large scale from one nation or community to another for the purpose of buying and…

Trading, commercial intercourse.

Mutual dealing, reciprocal trade.

Commercial intercourse; business relations.

Trading, commerce.

= correspondence, n. 5: communication, intercourse; also in some of the specific uses, as secret communication, commercial intercourse, etc.

Exchange, barter.

The action of negotiate, v. Also (occasionally): an instance of this, a negotiation.

Trading, trafficking; buying and selling.

Performance of the functions of a chapman, trader, or dealer.

The action or practice of selling a product or products; the business of a trader or merchant.

Reciprocal trade. Also attributive.