tradingn.
/ˈtreɪdɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈtreɪdɪŋ/ The action of trade v. (in various senses); esp. the action of engaging in trade; the buying and selling of goods, commodities, or services; commerce, trade, traffic.
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society > trade and finance > [noun]
mongingOE
cheapinga1000
cheapOE
chaffer?c1225
merchandisea1300
market-making1340
merchandyc1350
corseriec1380
chafferinga1382
need-doinga1382
changea1387
chapmanhoodc1386
cossery?a1400
bargaining1401
merchandisinga1425
merchandrya1450
intercourse1473
business1478
chapmanry1483
the feat of merchandisec1503
market1525
trade1549
marting1553
contractation1555
trading1556
merchantryc1560
marketing1561
mart1562
trafficking1570
contraction1582
tract1582
nundination1586
commerce1587
chafferya1599
negotiation1601
intertraffica1603
traffic1603
commercery1604
intertrading1606
correspondence1607
mercature1611
correspondency1613
coss?1635
negotiating1640
dealing1691
chapmanship1727
merchanting1883
intertrade1915
1556 E. Bonner (title) An honest godlye instruction, and information for the tradynge, and bringinge vp of Children.
1568 T. Hacket tr. A. Thevet New Found Worlde f. 14v Some..weare shirtes, & gownes of course hairy cloth, the which they receiue in trading with the Portingals.
1615 in Buccleuch MSS (Hist. MSS Comm.) (1899) I. 168 Either of us might assist each other in free Trading in those parts.
1645 J. Milton Tetrachordon 52 So to serve the commodity of insatiable trading, usury shall be permitted.
1654 P. Drummond Let. 8 Sept. in E. Nicholas Papers (1892) II. 82 Hee will stopp all tredding by sea that way.
1728 P. Aubin Life & Adventures Young Count Albertus iii. 58 Her Father was a rich Merchant of Seville, who had left trading.
1799 in J. A. Picton City of Liverpool: Select. Munic. Rec. (1886) II. 219 To prohibit the trading for slaves.
1845 W. Flagg Let. 17 Dec. in Flagg Corr. (1986) 69 Our neighbors like slay riding and trading better than work.
1885 Athenæum 5 Sept. 302/1 Successful trading was not at that date quite so important.
1899 N.Y. Times 5 Mar. 8/5 There was very little trading of players during the meeting.
1904 C. J. Steedman Bucking Sagebrush ii. 17 All trading was done at the ‘co-op’ stores.
1958 Spectator 6 June 753/2 The profits from trading for the year..were somewhat less than in 1956.
2013 Washington Post (Nexis) 9 Oct. a15 A software malfunction led Nasdaq to halt trading for most of the afternoon.
Compounds
C1. With following adverb, forming nouns corresponding to phrasal verbs, as trading down, trading in, trading up.
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1905 Motor Age 9 Feb. 119/2 The ‘trading in’ of old cars.
1943 Surv. Current Business Sept. 5/1 Trading up—the tendency to buy higher quality and hence higher-priced goods..—is an important factor in producing the large dollar volume being recorded.
1976 Times 6 Nov. 18/8 When prices increase..there is a strong tendency to..buying in smaller quantities or items of poorer quality. This is known in advertising jargon as ‘trading down’.
2007 Irish Times (Nexis) 1 Feb. (Property section) 6 Trading down is a relatively new phenomenon. Previously people stayed on in the family home until it fell apart around them.
2010 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 18 Sept. (Traveller section) 3 What we are seeing is a significant amount of trading up.
C2. General attributive.
a. With the sense ‘of, relating to, or connected with trade’, as trading journey, trading path, trading place, trading relationship, trading route, etc.
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society > trade and finance > trading place > [noun]
trade1582
trading placea1650
society > trade and finance > [noun] > trading journey
trade1569
trading journey1735
1615 R. Hamor True Disc. Present Estate Virginia 36 What present reliefe he hath don to the Colony, furnishing vs by two trading voyages, with three and twenty hundred bushels of Corne.
a1650 W. Bradford Hist. Plymouth Plantation in Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. (1856) 4th Ser. III. 221 He had order to procure a patente for a fitt trading place in ye river of Kenebeck.
1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 273 To put into the first trading Port.
1730 Evening Post 6 Oct. The Nation of the Cherrokees shall on their Part take Care to keep the Trading Path clean.
1735 Gen. Evening Post 20 Nov. A Person, who..was out on a Trading Journey with the Indians.
1774 Gentleman's Mag. Sept. 440/2 A gentleman was sent by him to make observations.., in order to find a place proper for a trading station in those parts.
1791 W. Hewerdine Compl. Coll. Convivial Songs 44 For some succeed, and others fail, That into commerce enter, So few are chaste, and many frail, In this great trading Centre.
1805 National Intelligencer & Washington Advertiser 8 July The trading route..is known to be in constant practice.
1850 Bell's Life in London 7 Apr. 2/4 If France stood in the same trading relationship to England as the States do.
1883 E. W. Howe Country Town xv. 84 I had never been to Twin Mounds, as there was a post-office and a small trading place several miles nearer.
1922 L. E. Elliott Chile Today & Tomorrow x. 241 The trade representative..pays the normal trading tax imposed on all businesses.
1951 D. E. A. Wallace & R. P. Bagnall-Oakeley Norfolk vii. 84 The old villages..began as trading places for the eel-fishers, the reed-men and the smugglers from the sea.
1975 Forbes 15 Jan. 56/2 This all adds up to nervousness and low trading volume in the stock market this year.
2003 Mirror (Nexis) 17 May 36 Dubai was once a sleepy trading port on the Persian Gulf.
2013 M. Motland Chestnut Creek Saga vi. 60 It takes about a week to hike the old trading path.
b. With the sense ‘designating a ship, boat, etc., employed in trade’, as trading boat, trading ship, trading vessel, etc.
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1629 T. Smethwike Motion to East India Company (single sheet) 860 tons of trading ships and certaine frigots, &c.
1737 Wonderful Life Robinson Crusoe Epitomized (new ed.) 18 My Hopes were to meet some of the English trading Vessels, that would..take us in and relieve us.
1738 W. Stephens Jrnl. 15 June in Jrnl. Proc. Georgia (1742) I. 221 An Indian trading Boat arrived.
1743 C. Packe Ανκογραϕια 58 The numberless Sail of the Trading-craft.
1819 Edinb. Philos. Jrnl. 1 132 The fish are carried..to Aberdeen, and from thence in regular trading smacks to London.
1875 ‘M. Twain’ in Atlantic Monthly Feb. 219/2 He ran over the steering-oar of a trading-scow.
1895 C. M. Yonge Long Vac. xviii. 181 He..set her up at Rockquay with the tobacco-shop. She had chosen that place on account of American trading-vessels putting in there.
1900 M. E. Braddon Infidel i. 5 They went to London together, meaning to sail for Jersey in a trading smack.
1923 ‘R. Daly’ Enchanted Island xv. 154 I'm trying to figure out our chances of being picked up if we stay here. It's not on the track of any regular trading-boats.
2014 Tamworth Herald (Nexis) 17 Apr. 5 A dozen trading boats will take to the water to sell a whole host of handmade and unique goods.
c. With the sense ‘intended for trade or barter’, as trading articles, trading goods, etc. [Compare slightly earlier trade goods at trade n. and adv. Compounds 1c.]
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1638 A. Shurt Let. 8 Oct. in Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. (1863) 4th Ser. VI. 571 A parcell of Dutch tradinge cloth.
1773 J. Hawkesworth Acct. Voy. Southern Hemisphere II. i. xiii. 140 All those whom he had dealt with, knew of what his trading articles consisted, and the value they bore.
1897 A. Schulz & A. Hammar New Afr. xxviii. 383 An enormous pack-ox, well laden with coloured handkerchief cloths in small bales, tobacco, and other trading articles.
1992 Jrnl. Afr. Hist. 33 383 Lists of trading articles for the diverse regions in the narrative texts..show all kinds of differences.
2012 Daily Times (Pakistan) (Nexis) 13 Dec. Trading goods worth $500 million for exports and $1 billion for imports have been on their way to Karachi Port.
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trading account n. a financial account of commercial transactions; spec. an account giving details of sales during a given period, including the revenue gained, the cost of sales, the stock at the beginning and end of the period, and the overall gross profit or loss.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] > other types of accounts
calends of exchangec1374
scorea1400
pipe1455
mensalc1475
profit and loss1553
stock1588
bank account1671
lump-account1699
revenue account1703
profit and loss account1721
sundry1736
drawing account1737
stock account?1768
private account1772
trading account1780
Flemish account1785
capital account1813
embankment1813
cost account1817
cash-credit1832
current account1846
savings account1850
deposit account1851
suspense account1869
control account1908
checking account1923
ghost account1933
numbered account1963
budget account1969
ISA1975
MSA1993
1780 Gazetteer & New Daily Advertiser 9 Oct. When the volume of our trading accounts are either happily concluded, or fatally closed up for ever.
1847 Bombay Times 25 Dec. 1020/3 Other trading accounts in the books of the house, estimated at Rs. 43,00,000.
1920 Act 10 Geo. V Sched. ii. 11 Such cost accounts, trading accounts, and balance sheets..as the Controller may require.
1978 J. Kellock Elem. Accounting x. 174 In the final form, accounts are divided into two sections referred to as the trading account and the profit and loss account.
2002 E. McLaney & P. Atrill Accounting (rev. ed.) iii. 60 This first part of the statement, which is concerned with the calculation of gross profit, is referred to as the trading account, or trading section.
trading bloc n. a group of nations (or occasionally other political units) united by a trade agreement or agreements.
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society > trade and finance > trading organization > [noun]
common market1843
clique1855
syndicate1865
pool1868
ring1869
conference1894
cartel1902
holding company1906
price ring1914
trading bloc1922
club1950
1922 Baking Technol. Jan. 6/2 One result is a little different than perhaps the trading bloc members anticipated.
1991 Daily Tel. 5 Jan. 10/8 The Soviet-led trading bloc, Comecon, met in Moscow yesterday to prepare for its dissolution and replacement by a new organisation.
2011 F. S. Weaver United States & Global Econ. v. 106 The quandary is whether trading blocs are a step in the direction of freer international commerce and finance or a step away.
trading card n. (a) any of various types of card on which the details of trades, transactions, etc., are recorded; (b) originally North American a small picture card that is part of a collectable set, each card typically depicting one of a set of figures from popular culture such as sportspeople or cartoon characters; cf. baseball card n. at baseball n. Compounds 2.
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1877 8th Ann. Rep. Mass. Bureau Statistics of Labor ii. 101 The cash system is not strictly adhered to... Members are furnished with trading cards, good for three months.
1944 Ogden (Utah) Standard-Examiner 6 July 8/5 Almost every night here of late I have had to view the increasing collection of trading cards the boys have accumulated.
1985 N.Y. Times 30 Aug. c20/5 The festivities include more than 130 exhibitors of antiques and collectibles ranging from baseball trading cards to Tiffany lamps.
1999 L. J. Borsellino Day Trader vii. 135 A trading card is divided in two, with a column for the buys—marked in blue—and one for the sells—marked in red.
2009 F. Ladd Astro Boy & Anime come to Americas 115 Likenesses of the Pokémon appear on trading cards; a really dedicated youngster seeks to acquire a full set.
trading company n. a company engaged wholly or mainly in trade.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > non-manual worker > businessman > [noun] > partner > not named in title
and Company1569
trading company1648
comp1677
compa1677
Co1759
1648 W. Golding Servants on Horse-back 7 I must not wrong the trading Company, for Anno 1647. they sent little or no goods to supply the Countrey.
1763 Gentleman's Mag. Nov. 564/2 A trading company is forming at Petersburgh, under the title of the Leghorn Company.
1849 Jurist 24 Feb. 61/2 It might be contended, that companies intended for trading, but not having actually begun business, are not trading companies within the meaning of the act.
1979 A. Wendt Leaves of Banyan Tree xi. 103 The cacao crop was harvested, dried, and sold to a trading company in Apia.
2009 Private Eye 27 Nov. 31/2 BCS was the only trading company. Holdings was merely that—a holding company—and did not trade.
trading estate n. British an area of land designated for commercial or light industrial use; an industrial estate.
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society > occupation and work > workplace > factory > [noun] > area devoted to factories or industry
trading estate1920
industrial park1949
industrial estate1953
1920 Times 6 Oct. 2/5 (advt.) All communications to be addressed to The Slough Trading Co., Ltd., Trading Estate, Slough Depot, Slough, Bucks.
1981 B. Hines Looks & Smiles 31 They..caught a bus out to the Ring Road where a Trading Estate was being developed to attract new industries to the city.
2000 A. Sayle Barcelona Plates 33 Phomex had..paid for one night at the Moat House Hotel on the same trading estate outside Daventry.
trading floor n. the area in a stock exchange or similar place where dealers trade in stocks, commodities, or other goods.
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society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [noun] > stock exchange > parts of
trading pit1878
call room1882
trading floor1882
trading post1890
settling room1902
1882 Detroit Free Press 30 July 1/6 The most exciting time experienced on the trading floor of the Board of Trade in many a day.
1971 Sunday Austral. 8 Aug. 13/9 He also suggested..greater use of electronic equipment, culminating in the elimination of the current trading floor.
2007 P. Stone Opting Out? 28 Despite being one of the few women on the trading floor when she started out in an industry rife with sexism, Meg managed to rise rapidly.
trading partner n. (a) (originally) a partner in a trading company or enterprise; (b) (now chiefly) a country, business, etc., with which another trades.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > non-manual worker > businessman > [noun] > partner
partnerc1460
trading partner1780
1780 Remembrancer XI. i. 101/1 Charges were..for employing public waggons in the transportation of private property, viz. merchandize purchased by himself and his trading partners in New Jersey.
1896 E. R. Suffling Fur Traders of West i. 7 The new comer was the Captain's old schoolfellow and former trading partner, William.
1939 Economist 5 Aug. 263 The statistics of Turkey's foreign trade with her principal trading partners are sufficient to make clear the nature of her economic problems.
2004 N.Y. Times 2 May iv. 3/5 The European Union and the United States account for 40 percent of world trade. They are each other's largest trading partners.
trading pit n. originally U.S. a part of the floor of a stock exchange or similar place in which a particular stock or commodity is traded, traditionally consisting of an octagonal space surrounded by a series of progressively higher platforms; = pit n.1 12a.Now often replaced by electronic trading systems.
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society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [noun] > stock exchange > parts of
trading pit1878
call room1882
trading floor1882
trading post1890
settling room1902
1878 Official Gaz. U.S. Patent Office 21 May 922/2 A trading-pit formed in removable sections, heated or ventilated by hot or cold air.
1880 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Daily Sentinel 18 Nov. 4/5 Members of the Chamber who were actively engaged in the grain trade..will occupy the ‘trading pit’ in the center of the room.
1936 Pop. Mech. Mag. Mar. 396/1 Hands do all the talking in Chicago's trading pits.
2015 Independent (Nexis) 6 Feb. (Business section) 56 (heading) Trading pits to fall silent this summer... Open-outcry trading now accounts for just 1 per cent of CME's overall volumes.
trading profit n. profit gained through business, commercial transactions, etc.; spec. profit as shown in a trading account, gross profit.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > profit > [noun] > other types of profit
improvement?1449
mesne profitsa1558
intromissionc1650
emergencya1662
trading profit1717
building-rent1776
turn1796
sturt1850
redemption yield1921
hidden reserve1930
1717 True Copy Last Will & Test. Rev. D. Williams 8 My Cousin..owed me Three Hundred Forty Five Pounds Principal, plus as much more in trading Profit.
1833 Circular to Bankers 7 June 372/1 The trading profit of the Bank, as distinguished from the interest of capital, has been..£733,434.
1940 Economist 25 May 936/1 A double record of trading profits and also of true net profits has been kept.
2009 Y. B. Chaung in P. U. Ali & G. N. Gregoriou Insider Trading xii. 179 A mixture of call option contracts and shares which ultimately resulted in a trading profit of over U.S.$5 million.
trading rat n. a woodrat or pack rat (genus Neotoma and related genera).Cf. trade rat n. (b) at trade n. and adv. Compounds 3.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > superfamily Myomorpha (mouse, rat, vole, or hamster) > [noun] > family Muridae > genus Neotema (wood-rat)
wood-rat1767
bush-rat1867
trade rat1876
trading rat1881
pack rat1885
1881 Frank Leslie's Pop. Monthly Jan. 35/2 Among the many strange animals one meets in the Rocky Mountains, the hairy-tailed or trading rat is perhaps the most unique and interesting to the naturalist.
1895 St. Nicholas Apr. 501/2 I would like to write an entire paper on the droll ways of certain distinguished members of the Wood-rat, Pack-rat, Trading-rat, or Bush-rat genus.
1987 Wildlife N. Amer. Deserts 185 The woodrat is sometimes referred to as a ‘trading rat’ because of its habit of picking up an object and leaving another in its place.
trading room n. originally North American (a) the room in a trading post where bartering takes place (now historical); (b) a room in a stock exchange or similar place where dealers trade in stocks, commodities, etc.; cf. trading floor n.
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1697 H. Kelsey Jrnl. 14 Apr. in Kelsey Papers (1929) viii. 74 Receivd some goods into ye trading room &c told into the warehouse 38 coat beaver 26 half and 12 whole parchment.
1760 World Displayed X. 234 The other two bastions, and the curtains, are divided into store-houses, a trading room, a magazine, &c.
1861 National Rev. July 71 On their arrival, they take the furs to the trading room, where the price is fixed.
1872 Lakeside Monthly Oct. 253/1 Immediately above the basement story, is an elegant hall or trading room, 26 by 101 feet, where will be held the ‘call’ or auction session in the afternoon.
1931 Financial Times 15 Sept. 3/4 The new building has been erected to accommodate the enormous increase in Stock Market operations. The huge trading room has an area of 20,000 square feet.
1983 T. J. Karamanski Fur Trade & Explor. (1988) viii. 219 Nine hunters..burst into the post's trading room.
2007 New Yorker 15 Oct. 60/3 Manchester Trading doesn't have a television in its trading room, partly because Niederhoffer..can't abide doom-mongering market commentators.
trading stamp n. originally U.S. a stamp given by a retailer to a customer upon purchase of goods of a certain value, which is redeemable in large numbers for various articles from the company issuing the stamp, thereby providing an incentive for the customer to make further purchases from the retailer.Now largely superseded by other incentive schemes.
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society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > discount > [noun] > tokens or stamps
mustard-token1600
trading stamp1896
stamp1933
1896 Jacksonville (Illinois) Daily Jrnl. 30 Sept. (advt.) Trading stamps given on all purchases from 10c up.
1964 S. Bellow Herzog 121 Postage stamps and trading stamps soaking on the formica counter.
2013 Times & Transcript (New Brunswick) (Nexis) 19 Jan. h7 I remember my grandmother carefully pasting trading stamps into books after each visit to the grocery store.
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tradingadj.
/ˈtreɪdɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈtreɪdɪŋ/ 1. That trades (in various senses of the verb); esp. that engages in trade or commerce; commercial.
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society > trade and finance > [adjective] > trading
merchantc1400
demeanant1467
trading1578
tradeful1595
commercing1610
merchandised1619
mercantile1645
commerciala1687
merchanting1921
1578 B. Rich Allarme to Eng. ii. sig. C.iiiiv The honest trading marchaunt is to be had in reuerence and estimation.
1613 R. Anton Moriomachia sig. B2 He met in the way a proper tall trading Gentlewoman, set out after the finest fashion of new deuices.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 123 These rob the trading Citizens [sc. bees] . View more context for this quotation
1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 69. ¶1 Factors in the Trading World are what Ambassadors are in the Politick World.
1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 263 A great trading or manufacturing town. View more context for this quotation
1813 W. P. Taunton Rep. Court Common Pleas 3 602/2 The trading and petitioning creditor's debt.
1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People vi. §3. 282 The trading and industrial classes.
1902 Q. Jrnl. Econ. 16 423 The industrial and trading ‘workers’ in the cities.
1994 E. Mühle in M. S. Flier & D. Rowland Medieval Russ. Culture II. 77 The legacy of feudal landlords and trading craftsmen.
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society > trade and finance > illegal or immoral trading > [adjective]
interloping1603
trading1623
drug trafficking1912
1623 G. Fletcher Reward of Faithfull 405 Such trading Preachers may find work enough for their mouths, by making other mens labours runne through them.
1704 J. Basset Ess. Proposal for Catholick Communion viii. 143 The grand Abuses, by which those Trading Questors had impos'd upon the People.
1787 J. Hawkins Life Johnson 214 The duke of Newcastle..gave him [sc. Henry Fielding] a nominal qualification of 100 l. a year, and set him up as a trading-justice, in which disreputable station he died.
1812 Examiner 30 Nov. 767/1 The Court treated the defendant as a systematic and trading libeller.
1839 Ld. Brougham Hist. Sketches Statesmen George III, Canning 289 The common herd of trading politicians.
1903 Harper's Weekly 4 Apr. 567/3 The President who manfully stands up for his constitutional rights will win nine times out of ten, when the trading President must fail in the very nature of things.
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1727 P. Longueville Hermit p. ix Busy Worlds and Trading-Peopled Towns.
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