trade

1. v. A track; a trail; a way; a path; also, passage; travel; resort. Source: opted

2. v. Course; custom; practice; occupation; employment. Source: opted

3. v. Business of any kind; matter of mutual consideration; affair; dealing. Source: opted

4. v. Specifically: The act or business of exchanging commodities by barter, or by buying and selling for money; commerce; traffic; barter. Source: opted

5. v. The business which a person has learned, and which he engages in, for procuring subsistence, or for profit; occupation; especially, mechanical employment as distinguished from the liberal arts, the learned professions, and agriculture; as, we speak of the trade of a smith, of a carpenter, or mason, but not now of the trade of a farmer, or a lawyer, or a physician. Source: opted

6. v. Instruments of any occupation. Source: opted

7. v. A company of men engaged in the same occupation; thus, booksellers and publishers speak of the customs of the trade, and are collectively designated as the trade. Source: opted

8. v. The trade winds. Source: opted

9. v. Refuse or rubbish from a mine. Source: opted

10. v. i. To barter, or to buy and sell; to be engaged in the exchange, purchase, or sale of goods, wares, merchandise, or anything else; to traffic; to bargain; to carry on commerce as a business. Source: opted

11. v. i. To buy and sell or exchange property in a single instance. Source: opted

12. v. i. To have dealings; to be concerned or associated; -- usually followed by with. Source: opted

13. v. t. To sell or exchange in commerce; to barter. Source: opted

14. imp. of Tread. Source: opted

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