Definition of trade

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

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Wool-hall :: Wool-hall (n.) A trade market in the woolen districts.
Craft :: Craft (n.) Those engaged in any trade, taken collectively; a guild; as, the craft of ironmongers..
Advocate :: Advocate (n.) One who defends, vindicates, or espouses any cause by argument; a pleader; as, an advocate of free trade, an advocate of truth..
Call :: Call (n.) A short visit; as, to make a call on a neighbor; also, the daily coming of a tradesman to solicit orders..
Restrictive :: Restrictive (a.) Serving or tending to restrict; limiting; as, a restrictive particle; restrictive laws of trade..
Trade-mark :: Trade-mark (n.) A peculiar distinguishing mark or device affixed by a manufacturer or a merchant to his goods, the exclusive right of using which is recognized by law..
Patamar :: Patamar (n.) A vessel resembling a grab, used in the coasting trade of Bombay and Ceylon..
Cucking Stool :: Cucking stool () A kind of chair formerly used for punishing scolds, and also dishonest tradesmen, by fastening them in it, usually in front of their doors, to be pelted and hooted at by the mob, but sometimes to be taken to the water and ducked; -- called also a castigatory, a tumbrel, and a trebuchet; and often, but not so correctly, a ducking stool..
Insolvent :: Insolvent (a.) Not solvent; not having sufficient estate to pay one's debts; unable to pay one's debts as they fall due, in the ordinary course of trade and business; as, in insolvent debtor..
Blacklist :: Blacklist (v. t.) To put in a black list as deserving of suspicion, censure, or punishment; esp. to put in a list of persons stigmatized as insolvent or untrustworthy, -- as tradesmen and employers do for mutual protection; as, to blacklist a workman who has been discharged. See Black list, under Black, a..
Collier :: Collier (n.) A vessel employed in the coal trade.
Contraband :: Contraband (a.) Prohibited or excluded by law or treaty; forbidden; as, contraband goods, or trade..
Colliery :: Colliery (n.) The coal trade.
Binder :: Binder (n.) One who binds; as, a binder of sheaves; one whose trade is to bind; as, a binder of books..
Boycott :: Boycott (v. t.) To combine against (a landlord, tradesman, employer, or other person), to withhold social or business relations from him, and to deter others from holding such relations; to subject to a boycott..
Retail :: Retail (a.) Done at retail; engaged in retailing commodities; as a retail trade; a retail grocer.
Frippery :: Frippery (n.) The trade or traffic in old clothes.
Merchant :: Merchant (n.) One who traffics on a large scale, especially with foreign countries; a trafficker; a trader..
Mystery :: Mystery (n.) A trade; a handicraft; hence, any business with which one is usually occupied..
Chaffer :: Chaffer (v. t.) To buy or sell; to trade in.
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