trading

trade

T0303300 (trād)n.1. The business of buying and selling commodities, products, or services; commerce. See Synonyms at business.2. A branch or kind of business: the women's clothing trade.3. The people working in or associated with a business or industry: writers, editors, and other members of the publishing trade.4. The activity or volume of buying or selling: The trade in stocks was brisk all morning.5. An exchange of one thing for another: baseball teams making a trade of players.6. An occupation, especially one requiring skilled labor; craft: the building trades.7. trades The trade winds.v. trad·ed, trad·ing, trades v.intr.1. To engage in buying and selling for profit.2. To make an exchange of one thing for another.3. To be offered for sale or be sold: Stocks traded at lower prices this morning.4. To shop or buy regularly: trades at the local supermarket.v.tr.1. To give in exchange for something else: trade farm products for manufactured goods; will trade my ticket for yours.2. To buy and sell (stocks, for example).3. To pass back and forth: We traded jokes.adj.1. Of or relating to trade or commerce.2. Relating to, used by, or serving a particular trade: a trade magazine.3. Of or relating to books that are primarily published to be sold commercially, as in bookstores.Phrasal Verbs: trade down To trade something in for something else of lower value or price: bought a new, smaller car, trading the old one down for economy. trade in To surrender or sell (an old or used item), using the proceeds as partial payment on a new purchase. trade on To put to calculated and often unscrupulous advantage; exploit: children of celebrities who trade on their family names. trade up To trade something in for something else of greater value or price: The value of our house soared, enabling us to trade up to a larger place.

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[Middle English, course, from Middle Low German.]

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trad′a·ble, trade′a·ble adj.

trading

(ˈtrædɪŋ) n (Commerce) the act of buying and selling goods and services either on the domestic (wholesale and retail) markets or on the international (import, export, and entrepôt) markets

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trading - buying or selling securities or commoditiesbond trading, bond-trading activity - trading in bonds (usually by a broker on the floor of an exchange)program trading - a trading technique involving large blocks of stock with trades triggered by computer programsshort sale, short selling - sale of securities or commodity futures not owned by the seller (who hopes to buy them back later at a lower price)short covering - the purchase of securities or commodities by a short seller to close out a short saleinsider trading - buying or selling corporate stock by a corporate officer or other insider on the basis of information that has not been made public and is supposed to remain confidentialcommerce, commercialism, mercantilism - transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services)

trading

nounCommercial, industrial, or professional activity in general:business, commerce, industry, trade, traffic.

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commerçantcommercionegoziazionescambio