0 a method of buying something new by giving something you own as part of the payment for it:
1 a way of buying a new car, machine, computer, etc. that involves giving your old one as part of the payment for it:
2 an old car, machine, computer, etc. that you give as part of the payment when you buy a new one:
In this case, the price of the good contrast was a trade-in of 10% loss in the total output energy.
In so many cases there is a trade-in price given for the second-hand goods which are handed in as part of the transaction.
It is not as if there were a fixed market price for the trade-in goods.
The differential has since been reduced, partly by the depreciation of sterling and partly by the increase in this country of discounts and trade-in prices.
I went to a garage, but found that the trade-in value of my car has now dropped £110.
Quite obviously, if the dealer gets a commission he is able to shade the price for those trade-in goods.
Unreasonable though that may seem, that will probably make a difference to its trade-in value.
The trade-in makes no sense today when some of us feel some relief that those recently acquitted on grounds of mistrial and false evidence are alive and not dead.
