1. trade - Noun
2. trade - Adjective
3. trade - Verb
imp. of Tread.
A track; a trail; a way; a path; also, passage; travel; resort.
Course; custom; practice; occupation; employment.
Business of any kind; matter of mutual consideration; affair; dealing.
Specifically: The act or business of exchanging commodities by barter, or by buying and selling for money; commerce; traffic; barter.
The business which a person has learned, and which he engages in, for procuring subsistence, or for profit; occupation; especially, mechanical employment as distinguished from the liberal arts, the learned professions, and agriculture; as, we speak of the trade of a smith, of a carpenter, or mason, but not now of the trade of a farmer, or a lawyer, or a physician.
Instruments of any occupation.
A company of men engaged in the same occupation; thus, booksellers and publishers speak of the customs of the trade, and are collectively designated as the trade.
The trade winds.
Refuse or rubbish from a mine.
To barter, or to buy and sell; to be engaged in the exchange, purchase, or sale of goods, wares, merchandise, or anything else; to traffic; to bargain; to carry on commerce as a business.
To buy and sell or exchange property in a single instance.
To have dealings; to be concerned or associated; -- usually followed by with.
To sell or exchange in commerce; to barter.
Source: Webster's dictionaryI am in favor of helping the prosperity of all countries because, when we are all prosperous, the trade with each becomes more valuable to the other. William Howard Taft
Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart. Lois McMaster Bujold
I would trade all of my technology for an afternoon with Socrates. Steve Jobs
Feast with your kin, but do not trade; trade with your enemy, but do not feast. Armenian Proverb
Even a thief takes ten years to learn his trade. Japanese Proverb
There are tricks in every trade. Italian Proverb