meaning of trade
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.
10. 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.
11. To buy and sell or exchange property in a single instance.
12. To have dealings; to be concerned or associated; -- usually followed by with.
13. To sell or exchange in commerce; to barter.
14. imp. of Tread.
15. An organized combination among workmen for the purpose of maintaining their rights, privileges, and interests with respect to wages, hours of labor, customs, etc.
16. the skilled practice of a practical occupation; "he learned his trade as an
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