Trade

A track; a trail; a way; a path; also, passage; travel; resort.

Course; custom; practice; occupation; employment.

Business of any kind; matter of mutual consideration; affair; dealing.

Specifically: The act or business of exchanging commodities by barter, or by buying and selling for money; commerce; traffic; barter.

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.

Instruments of any occupation.

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.

The trade winds.

Refuse or rubbish from a mine.

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.

To buy and sell or exchange property in a single instance.

To have dealings; to be concerned or associated; -- usually followed by with.

To sell or exchange in commerce; to barter.

imp. of Tread.

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"

an equal exchange; "we had no money so we had to live by barter"

a particular instance of buying or selling; "it was a package deal"; "I had no further trade with him"; "he's a master of the business deal"

steady winds blowing from east to west above and below the equator; "they rode the trade winds going west"

the skilled practice of a practical occupation; "he learned his trade as an apprentice"

people who perform a particular kind of skilled work; "he represented the craft of brewers"; "as they say in the trade"