English
Etymology
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-Germanic *tradō ( “ track, way ” ) , and cognate with Old English tredan ( “ to tread ” ) .
Pronunciation
Noun
trade (countable and uncountable , plural trades )
( uncountable ) Buying and selling of goods and services on a market .
Synonym: commerce
( countable ) A particular instance of buying or selling .
I did no trades with them once the rumors started.
Synonyms: deal , barter
( countable ) An instance of bartering items in exchange for one another.
1989 , Bruce Pandolfini , Chess Openings: Traps and Zaps [1] , →ISBN , Glossary, page 225 :EXCHANGE — A trade or swap of no material profit to either side.
2009 , Elliott Kalb and Mark Weinstein, The 30 Greatest Sports Conspiracy Theories of All Time [2] , →ISBN , page 60 :When Golden State matched the Knicks' offer sheet, the Warriors and Knicks worked out a trade that sent King to New York for Richardson.
( countable ) Those who perform a particular kind of skilled work.
The skilled trades were the first to organize modern labor unions.
2006 , Edwin Black , chapter 2, in Internal Combustion [3] :But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal.
Synonym: business
( countable ) Those engaged in an industry or group of related industries.
It is not a retail showroom. It is only for the trade .
( countable ) The skilled practice of a practical occupation .
Synonym: craft
( countable or uncountable ) An occupation in the secondary sector , as opposed to an agricultural , professional or military one.
After failing his entrance exams, he decided to go into a trade .
Most veterans went into trade when the war ended.
2007 , Michael Lynch, The Oxford Companion to Scottish History , USA: Oxford University Press, →ISBN , page 228 :Subsequently some Scottish troops settled, took up trade as weavers, tailors, or mariners, and married Dutch women.
2012 , Liberty Carrington, Wide Eyes Closed , AuthorHouse, →ISBN , page 92 :Getting a job in your major is no breeze: Remember we made fun of those who took up a trade
( uncountable , UK ) The business given to a commercial establishment by its customers.
Even before noon there was considerable trade .
Synonym: patronage
( chiefly in the plural ) Steady winds blowing from east to west above and below the equator .
They rode the trades going west.
1826 [1816 ], James Horsburgh, India Directory, Or Directions for Sailing to and from the East Indies, China, New Holland, Cape of Good Hope, Brazil and the Interjacent Ports [4] , page 28 :Calms and variable winds, are also experienced during every month of the year, in the space between the trades ; [ …] the vicinity of the north-east trade seems most liable to them.
( only as plural ) A publication intended for participants in an industry or related group of industries.
Rumors about layoffs are all over the trades .
( uncountable , LGBT , slang ) A brief sexual encounter.
Josh picked up some trade last night.
( obsolete , uncountable ) Instruments of any occupation.
1697 , John Dryden , “The Third Book of the Georgics”, in The works of Virgil containing his Pastorals, Georgics and Aeneis [5] , page 112 :His House and household Gods! his trade of War, / His Bow and Quiver; and his trusty Cur.
( mining ) Refuse or rubbish from a mine.
( obsolete ) A track or trail; a way; a path; passage .
1557 , Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey , The Second Book of Virgil's Æneid :A postern with a blind wicket there was, / A common trade to pass through Priam's house
c. 1595 , William Shakespeare , Richard II , Act III, scene iii:Or, I'll be buried in the king's highway, / Some way of common trade , where subjects' feet / May hourly trample on their sovereign's head.
( obsolete ) Course; custom; practice; occupation.
1545 , Nicholas Udall , Paraphrase on Luke , translation of original by Desiderius Erasmus :The Jewes, emong whom alone and no moe, God hitherto semed for to reigne, by reason of their knowledge of the law, and of the autoritee of being in the right trade of religion.
c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure ”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [ … ] (First Folio ), London: [ … ] Isaac Iaggard , and Ed[ ward] Blount , published 1623 , →OCLC , [ Act III, scene i] :Thy sin's not accidental but a trade .
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Translations
buying and selling
Afrikaans: ruil , handel (af)
Albanian: tregti (sq) f
Amharic: ንግድ ( nəgd )
Arabic: تِجَارَة f ( tijāra )
Armenian: առևտուր ( aṙewtur )
Assamese: বেপাৰ ( bepar )
Azerbaijani: ticarət (az) , kommersiya
Bashkir: сауҙа ( sawźa )
Belarusian: га́ндаль m ( hándalʹ ) , каме́рцыя f ( kamjércyja )
Bengali: বাণিজ্য (bn) ( banijjo )
Bulgarian: търго́вия (bg) f ( tǎrgóvija )
Burmese: အရောင်းအဝယ် (my) ( a.raung:a.wai )
Chinese:
Mandarin: 貿易 / 贸易 (zh) ( màoyì ) , 贸易 (zh) ( màoyì ) , 交易 (zh) ( jiāoyì )
Czech: obchod (cs) m
Danish: handel (da) , byttehandel
Dutch: handel (nl) m
Estonian: kaubandus
Finnish: kauppa (fi) , kaupankäynti (fi)
French: commerce (fr) m
Georgian: ვაჭრობა ( vač̣roba )
German: Handel (de) m , Kommerz f
Greek:
Ancient: ἐμπορία f ( emporía )
Hausa: ciniki (ha) , kasuwanci (ha)
Hebrew: סַחַר (he) m ( sakhar ) , מִסְחָר (he) m ( miskhar )
Hindi: व्यापार (hi) m ( vyāpār ) , तिजारत (hi) f ( tijārat )
Hungarian: kereskedelem (hu)
Icelandic: viðskipti (is) n pl , verslun (is) f
Indonesian: perdagangan (id)
Italian: commercio (it) m
Japanese: 貿易 (ja) ( ぼうえき, bōeki ) , 交易 (ja) ( こうえき, kōeki )
Kazakh: сауда ( sauda ) , коммерция ( kommersiä )
Khmer: ពាណិជ្ជកម្ម (km) ( pienɨccea’kam ) , វណិជ្ជា (km) ( vea’niccie )
Korean: 거래 (ko) ( georae ) , 교역 (ko) ( gyoyeok )
Kyrgyz: соода (ky) ( sooda ) , коммерция ( kommertsiya )
Lao: ການຄ້າ (lo) ( kān khā ) , ທຸລະກິດ (lo) ( thu la kit )
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Latin: commercium n
Latvian: tirgošanās , tirdzniecība f
Lithuanian: prekyba (lt) f
Macedonian: трго́вија f ( trgóvija )
Malay: perdagangan
Mongolian: худалдаа (mn) ( xudaldaa )
Navajo: naʼiiniʼ
Ngazidja Comorian: ɓiashara class 9
Norwegian:
Bokmål: handel (no) m
Pashto: تجارت (ps) m ( teǰārát )
Persian: تجارت (fa) ( tejârat )
Polish: handel (pl) m inan
Portuguese: comércio (pt) m
Russian: торго́вля (ru) f ( torgóvlja ) , комме́рция (ru) f ( kommércija )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: трговина f , обход m
Roman: trgovina (sh) f , obhod m
Shor: садығ ( sadığ )
Slovak: obchod m
Slovene: trgovina (sl) f
Spanish: comercio (es) m , gremio (es) m
Swahili: biashara (sw)
Swedish: handel (sv) c
Tagalog: baliwasan
Tajik: тиҷорат ( tijorat ) , савдо ( savdo )
Telugu: వర్తకము (te) ( vartakamu ) , వాణిజ్యము (te) ( vāṇijyamu )
Thai: พาณิชย์ ( paa-nít ) , ธุรกิจ (th) ( tú-rá-gìt ) , การค้า (th) ( gaan-káa )
Turkish: alım satım (tr) , ticaret (tr) , tecim (tr) ( archaic ) , satmanlık , satkanlık
Turkmen: söwda
Ukrainian: торгі́вля f ( torhívlja ) , коме́рція (uk) f ( komércija )
Urdu: تجارت f ( tijārat )
Uyghur: تىجارەت ( tijaret ) , سودا ( soda )
Uzbek: tijorat (uz) , kommersiya (uz) , savdo (uz)
Vietnamese: sự buôn bán (vi) , thương mại (vi) , thương nghiệp (vi)
Yiddish: האַנדל m ( handl )
instance of buying or selling
those engaged in an industry
skilled practice of an occupation
Afrikaans: ambag
Armenian: արհեստ (hy) ( arhest )
Bashkir: һөнәр ( hönər )
Czech: řemeslo (cs) n , mistrovství (cs) n
Dutch: gilde (nl) m
Finnish: ammattitaito , ammatti (fi)
French: métier (fr)
German: Handwerk (de) n
Hungarian: mesterség (hu) , szakma (hu)
Icelandic: iðn (is) f
Italian: mestiere (it)
Korean: 기술 (ko) ( gisul )
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Macedonian: за́нает m ( zánaet ) , стру́ка f ( strúka )
Maori: mahi-ā-rehe
Norwegian: håndverk n , fag (no) n
Polish: profesja (pl) f , zawód (pl) m inan , fach (pl) m inan
Portuguese: ofício (pt)
Romanian: meserie (ro)
Russian: ремесло́ (ru) n ( remesló ) , профе́ссия (ru) f ( proféssija )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: занат m
Roman: zanat (sh) m
Swedish: yrke (sv) n , hantverk (sv) n
Turkish: marifet (tr) , zanaat (tr)
business given by customers
steady winds above and below equator
publication intended for participants in an industry
slang: brief sexual encounter
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Verb
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( transitive , intransitive ) To engage in trade
This company trades (in) precious metal.
1727 , John Arbuthnot, Tables of Ancient Coins, Weights and Measures [6] , page 248 :[ …] a free port, where Nations warring with one another resorted with their Goods, and traded as in a neutral Country.
Synonym: deal
( finance , intransitive , copulative ) To be traded at a certain price or under certain conditions.
Apple is trading at $200.
( transitive ) To give (something) in exchange for.
Will you trade your precious watch for my earring?
Synonyms: exchange , swap , switch
( horticulture , transitive or intransitive ) To give someone a plant and receive a different one in return.
( transitive , intransitive ) To do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood .
Synonym: do business
( intransitive ) To have dealings; to be concerned or associated (with).
c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare , “The Tragedie of Macbeth ”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [ … ] (First Folio ), London: [ … ] Isaac Iaggard , and Ed[ ward] Blount , published 1623 , →OCLC , [ Act III, scene v] :Saucy and over bold, how did you dare / To trade and traffic with Macbeth
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Dutch
Verb
trade
(deprecated template usage ) ( archaic ) singular past subjunctive of treden
French
Pronunciation
Verb
trade
first-person singular present indicative of trader
third-person singular present indicative of trader
first-person singular present subjunctive of trader
third-person singular present subjunctive of trader
second-person singular imperative of trader
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Galician
Trado ("auger")
Etymology
From the medieval (Old Galician / Old Galician-Portuguese ) form traado (13th century), from Late Latin taratrum ( “ auger ” ) , attested by Isidore of Seville . Either from Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290 : Parameter 2 should be a valid language, etymology language or family code; the value "qfa-sub-ibe" is not valid. See WT:LOL , WT:LOL/E and WT:LOF . or from Gaulish , from Proto-Celtic *taratrom , from Proto-Indo-European *térh₁-tro- .[1] [2] Cognate with Portuguese trado , Spanish taladro , Old Irish tarathar , Old Welsh tarater , Breton tarar .
Pronunciation
Noun
trade m (plural trades )
auger
1448 , X. Ferro Couselo (ed.), A vida e a fala dos devanceiros . Vigo: Galaxia, page 295:
quatro traados et hua segur et hua aixola montisca
four augers and a hatchet and an adze
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Latin
Verb
(deprecated template usage ) trāde
second-person singular present active imperative of trādō
References
“trade ”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898 ), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities , New York: Harper & Brothers