trade
/tɹeɪd/
noun17
verb9
adjective1
forms
traded · trading · trades · tradeth · tradest
Phrases with trade
- trade offTo choose (something) in exchange for something else, where having both at once is not an available option.
- trade-inproperty used as part payment for a new purchase
- by tradeAs a profession; professionally.
- carriage tradeRetail business with wealthy or upper-class customers, i.e., those who arrive in carriages.
- skin tradeThe fur business, i.e. trading animal skins.
- take out in tradeTo accept repayment of a debt in the goods or services in which the debtor deals, rather than in money.
- tools of tradeThe items and equipment that a person uses in the course and scope of their profession, trade, or occupation.
- trade awayTo relinquish, to yield.
- trade downTo sell something and replace it with something cheaper.
- trade handsTo change ownership.
- trade upTo sell something and replace it with something more expensive.
- trick of the tradeA shortcut or other quick, or very effective way of doing things, that professional workers learn from experience.