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Commodities designed for use in trading.
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A trade-wind: used commonly in the plural.
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An obsolete preterit of tread.
To take or keep one's course; pass; move; proceed.
To engage in trade; engage in the exchange, purchase, or sale of goods, wares, and merchandise, or anything else; barter; buy and sell; traffic; carry on commerce as a business: with in before the thing bought and sold.
To buy and sell or to exchange property in a specific instance: as, A traded with B for a horse or a number of sheep.
To engage in affairs generally; have dealings or transactions.
To carry merchandise; voyage or ply as a merchant or merchantman.
To pass; spend.
To frequent for purposes of trade.
To sell or exchange in commerce; barter; buy and sell.
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A footstep; track; trace; trail.
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Path; way; course.
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The bearing part of the felly of a wheel; the tread of a wheel.
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Course of action or effort.
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Way of life; customary mode or course of action; habit or manner of life; habit; custom; practice.
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Business pursued; occupation.
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Specifically, the craft or business which a person has learned and which he carries on as a means of livelihood or for profit; occupation; particularly, mechanical or mercantile employment; a handicraft, as distinguished from one of the liberal arts or of the learned professions, and from agriculture.
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The exchange of commodities for other commodities or for money; the business of buying and selling; dealing by way of sale or exchange; commerce; traffic.
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The persons engaged in the same occupation or line of business: as, the book- trade.
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A purchase or sale; a bargain; specifically, in United States politics, a deal.
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The implements, collectively, of any occupation.
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Stuff: often used contemptuously in the sense of ‘rubbish.’
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In Great Britain, a committee of the Privy Council which has, to a large extent, the supervision of British commerce and industry. At its head are the President of the Board of Trade, who is usually a member of the Cabinet, the parliamentary secretary (formerly vice-president), the permanent secretary, and six assistant secretaries at the head of six departments—the commercial, harbor, finance, railway, marine, and fisheries. Attached to the Board of Trade are also the bankruptcy and emigration departments, the Patent Office, etc. A committee for trade and the plantations existed for a short time in the reign of Charles II. The council of trade was again constituted in the reign of William III., but discontinued in 1782. In 1786 the Board of Trade was organized, and its functions were subsequently greatly extended.
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Synonyms and
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Pursuit, Vocation, etc. See occupation.
Pertaining to or characteristic of trade, or of a particular trade: as, a trade practice; a trade ball or dinner; trade organizations.