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Definition of Trade
| n. | 1. | A track; a trail; a way; a path; also, passage; travel; resort. | | 2. | Course; custom; practice; occupation; employment. | | 3. | Business of any kind; matter of mutual consideration; affair; dealing. | | 4. | Specifically: The act or business of exchanging commodities by barter, or by buying and selling for money; commerce; traffic; barter. | | 5. | 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. | | 6. | Instruments of any occupation. | | 7. | 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. | | 8. | The trade winds. | | 9. | Refuse or rubbish from a mine. | | v. i. | 1. | 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. | | 2. | To buy and sell or exchange property in a single instance. | | 3. | To have dealings; to be concerned or associated; - usually followed by with. | | v. t. | 1. | To sell or exchange in commerce; to barter. | | imp. | 1. | imp. of Tread. |
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