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To pass goods and commodities from one person to another for an equivalent in goods or money; to buy or sell goods; to barter; to trade.

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  1. v. i. To pass goods and commodities from one person to another for an equivalent in goods or money; to buy or sell goods; to barter; to trade.
  2. v. i. To trade meanly or mercenarily; to bargain.
  3. v. t. To exchange in traffic; to effect by a bargain or for a consideration.
  4. v. Commerce, either by barter or by buying and selling; interchange of goods and commodities; trade.
  5. v. Commodities of the market.
  6. v. The business done upon a railway, steamboat line, etc., with reference to the number of passengers or the amount of freight carried.
  7. n. the aggregation of things (pedestrians or vehicles) coming and going in a particular locality during a specified period of time
  8. n. buying and selling; especially illicit trade
  9. n. the amount of activity over a communication system during a given period of time
  10. n. social or verbal interchange (usually followed by ‘with’)
  11. v. deal illegally
  12. v. trade or deal a commodity