trade
trade is a 5-letter English word with 26 senses as verb, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A track; a trail; a way; a path; also, passage; travel; resort. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- verb. A track; a trail; a way; a path; also, passage; travel; resort.
- verb. Course; custom; practice; occupation; employment.
- verb. Business of any kind; matter of mutual consideration; affair; dealing.
- verb. Specifically: The act or business of exchanging commodities by barter, or by buying and selling for money; commerce; traffic; barter.
- verb. 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.
- verb. Instruments of any occupation.
- verb. 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.
- verb. The trade winds.
- verb. Refuse or rubbish from a mine.
- intransitive verb. 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.
- intransitive verb. To buy and sell or exchange property in a single instance.
- intransitive verb. To have dealings; to be concerned or associated; -- usually followed by with.
- transitive verb. To sell or exchange in commerce; to barter.
- imp. of Tread.
- noun. the skilled practice of a practical occupation
"he learned his trade as an apprentice"
- noun. the commercial exchange (buying and selling on domestic or international markets) of goods and services
"Venice was an important center of trade with the East"
"they are accused of conspiring to constrain trade"
- noun. the business given to a commercial establishment by its customers
"even before noon there was a considerable patronage"
- noun. an equal exchange
"we had no money so we had to live by barter"
- noun. a particular instance of buying or selling
"it was a package deal"
"I had no further trade with him"
- noun. people who perform a particular kind of skilled work
"he represented the craft of brewers"
"as they say in the trade"
- noun. steady winds blowing from east to west above and below the equator
"they rode the trade winds going west"
- verb. do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood
"She deals in gold"
"The brothers sell shoes"
- verb. exchange or give (something) in exchange for
- verb. turn in as payment or part payment for a purchase
"trade in an old car for a new one"
- verb. engage in the trade of
"he is merchandising telephone sets"
- verb. be traded at a certain price or under certain conditions
"The stock traded around $20 a share"
Synonyms
craft, patronage, barter, swap, swop, deal, sell, switch, merchandise
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in trade:
adret, dater, derat, detar, drate, rated, tarde, tared, tread
Common word forms
traded, trader, trades, trading, tradeful, tradeable, tradeless
Words from these letters
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