- trade
- In.commerce, business
1) to carry on, conduct, engage in trade
2) to build up, develop, drum up, promote; lose trade
3) to restrain, restrict trade
4) (a) brisk, lively trade (they built up a lively trade)
5) fair trade
6) domestic; export; foreign, international, overseas; free; illicit; maritime; retail; wholesale trade (to promote international trade)
7) (the) slave trade
8) the carriage trade ('business with wealthy people')
9) trade among, between; with (to conduct trade with many countries)
10) trade in
11) (misc.) (in) restraint of trade
exchange12) to make a trade with smb.
13) a fair trade
occupation14) to ply, practice a trade
15) to learn a trade
16) by trade (she is a bookbinder by trade)
17) (misc.) a jack of all trades
IIv.1) (D; tr.) to trade for (she traded a knife for a hat)
2) (D; intr.) to trade in (to trade in furs)
3) (D; intr.) to trade with (to trade with various countries)
4) (O) she traded me a knife for a spoon
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Combinatory dictionary. 2013.