trade

CEFRA1

/tɹeɪd/

noun · verb

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    The activity of buying and selling goods or services.

  2. 02

    verb

    To exchange one thing for another.

Examples

  • Do you belong to any professional or trade associations?

  • We should not put restrictions on foreign trade.

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. A particular type of skilled work.

  2. A particular instance of buying or selling, or a series of related transactions executed as a single investment.

  3. An idea or strategy for an investment on a market.

More examples

In context

  • Every man for his own trade.

  • "Sell America" is the latest trade on Wall Street.

  • I did no trades with them once the rumors started.

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

From Middle English trade (“path, course of conduct”), introduced into English by Hanseatic merchants, from Middle Low German trade (“track, course”), from Old Saxon trada (“spoor, track”), from Proto-West Germanic *tradu, from Proto-Germanic *tradō (“track, way”), and cognate with Old English tredan (“to tread”); ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dreh₂- (“to tread, walk, step, run”). Cognate with Dutch trade, tra (“path, trail, course, trade”), German Low German Traad (“track, wagon trail”), Luxembourgish Tratt (“step, pace”), Icelandic tröð (“a lane between fences, enclosure, pen”).