Citations:trade

Noun: the commercial exchange of goods or services

 * 1896 - Theodor Herzl (1896 translation by Sylvie d’Avigdor), The Jewish State/The Jewish Question
 * ...they will construct roads, bridges, railways and telegraph installations; regulate rivers; and build their own dwellings, their labor will create trade, trade will create markets and markets will attract new settlers...
 * 1981 - Jimmy Carter, Jimmy Carter's Fourth State of the Union Address
 * The stability of the international system of payments and trade is important to the stability and good health of our own economy.
 * 2003 - George W. Bush, Proclamation 7679
 * We are also encouraging the free flow of trade and investment in the Pacific among our partners in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.

Noun (countable): the collective people who perform a particular kind of skilled work

 * 1855 — Charles Richard Weld, A Vocation tour in the United States and Canada
 * Not being in the trade, the "young ladies" interested me more than the spinning-jennies or looms; and, before I had gone through one mill, I was ready to admit that the difference between a Manchester factory girl and a Lowell "young lady," is great indeed.

Verb (intransitive): To engage in trade

 * 1886 — James Edwin Thorold Rogers, The Story of Nations - Holland/Chapter 20 - the Dutch Indies
 * But they might yield all this if they could only stop the Hollanders from trading in the East and in the West.

Verb (transitive): To give (something) in exchange for
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 * 1872 — Mark Twain, Roughing It - Chapter XLVI
 * Presently Smith traded a few acres of the ranch for a small undeveloped silver mine in Gold Hill.