English Dictionary

trade

noun

(uncountable) Buying and selling of goods and services on a market. / (countable) A particular instance of buying or selling. / (countable) An instance of bartering items in exchange for one another.

International trade is essential for economic growth.

意味（1）

(uncountable) Buying and selling of goods and services on a market.

意味（2）

(countable) A particular instance of buying or selling.

I did no trades with them once the rumors started.

意味（3）

(countable) An instance of bartering items in exchange for one another.

EXCHANGE — A trade or swap of no material profit to either side.

意味（4）

(countable) Those who perform a particular kind of skilled work.

The skilled trades were the first to organize modern labor unions.

意味（5）

(countable) Those engaged in an industry or group of related industries.

It is not a retail showroom. It is only for the trade.

意味（6）

(countable) The skilled practice of a practical occupation.

In the clearing stands a boxer and a fighter by his trade

意味（7）

(countable or uncountable) An occupation in the secondary sector, as opposed to an agricultural, professional or military one.

After failing his entrance exams, he decided to go into a trade.

意味（8）

(uncountable, UK) The business given to a commercial establishment by its customers.

Even before noon there was considerable trade.

意味（9）

(chiefly in the plural) Steady winds blowing from east to west above and below the equator.

They rode the trades going west.

意味（10）

(only as plural) A publication intended for participants in an industry or related group of industries.

Rumors about layoffs are all over the trades.

意味（11）

(uncountable, gay slang) A masculine man available for casual sex with men, often for pay. (Compare rough trade.)

In a homosexual of this kind—corresponding to the test of eccentric behavior in the drawing-room—one usually finds a preference for trade, i.e., sexually normal males, because, if another homosexual yields to him, he is only one of a class, but if he can believe that an exception is being made in his case, it seems a proof that he is being accepted for himself alone.

意味（12）

(obsolete, uncountable) Instruments of any occupation.

His House and household Gods! his trade of War, / His Bow and Quiver; and his trusty Cur.

意味（13）

(mining) Refuse or rubbish from a mine.

意味（14）

(obsolete) A track or trail; a way; a path; passage.

A postern with a blind wicket there was, / A common trade to pass through Priam's house

意味（15）

(obsolete) Course; custom; practice; occupation.

The Jewes, emong whom alone and no moe, God hitherto semed for to reigne, by reason of their knowledge of the law, and of the autoritee of being in the right trade of religion.