Dictionary Entry
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.
5 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 6 · 26 senses
Definitions
- 1verb
A track; a trail; a way; a path; also, passage; travel; resort.
- 2verb
Course; custom; practice; occupation; employment.
- 3verb
Business of any kind; matter of mutual consideration; affair; dealing.
- 4verb
Specifically: The act or business of exchanging commodities by barter, or by buying and selling for money; commerce; traffic; barter.
- 5verb
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.
- 6verb
Instruments of any occupation.
- 7verb
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.
- 8verb
The trade winds.
- 9verb
Refuse or rubbish from a mine.
- 10intransitive 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.
- 11intransitive verb
To buy and sell or exchange property in a single instance.
- 12intransitive verb
To have dealings; to be concerned or associated; -- usually followed by with.
- 13transitive verb
To sell or exchange in commerce; to barter.
- 14
imp. of Tread.
- 15noun
the skilled practice of a practical occupation
"he learned his trade as an apprentice"
Synonyms
- 16noun
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"
- 17noun
the business given to a commercial establishment by its customers
"even before noon there was a considerable patronage"
Synonyms
- 18noun
an equal exchange
"we had no money so we had to live by barter"
- 19noun
a particular instance of buying or selling
"it was a package deal"
"I had no further trade with him"
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- 20noun
people who perform a particular kind of skilled work
"he represented the craft of brewers"
"as they say in the trade"
Synonyms
- 21noun
steady winds blowing from east to west above and below the equator
"they rode the trade winds going west"
- 22verb
do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood
"She deals in gold"
"The brothers sell shoes"
- 23verb
exchange or give (something) in exchange for
- 24verb
turn in as payment or part payment for a purchase
"trade in an old car for a new one"
- 25verb
engage in the trade of
"he is merchandising telephone sets"
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- 26verb
be traded at a certain price or under certain conditions
"The stock traded around $20 a share"
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