0 the activity of buying and selling, or exchanging, goods and/or services between people or countries:
The country's trade in manufactured goods has expanded in the last ten years.
The two countries have signed a trade agreement for one year only.
Since the supermarket opened, many small local shops have lost up to 50 percent of their trade.
In hot weather, shops do a roaring/brisk trade in (= sell a lot of) cold drinks and ice cream.
This level of confidence in the economy is good for trade generally.
1 a particular business or industry:
2 used to refer to the publishing of books, etc. that are aimed at the general public:
3 to buy and sell goods or services, especially between countries:
4 to exchange something, or to stop using or doing something and start using or doing something else instead:
5 the activity of buying and selling goods and services esp. between countries:
6 a job, esp. one that needs special skill and that involves working with your hands, or the type of work in which such skills are needed:
8 the buying and selling of goods between people, companies, or countries:
trade between sb and sb The policy is intended to increase trade between India and southeast Asia.
trade in sth The country's trade in manufactured goods has expanded in the last ten years.
a trade body/group Leaders of industry trade groups are urging caution in raising oil taxes.
global/international/regional trade
trade concessions/liberalization
trade deals/negotiations/talks
9 a particular business or industry:
10 a country's imports and exports in a particular period:
12 a job, especially one that needs special skill and involves working with your hands:
He's an electrician by trade.
13 a situation in which you exchange something that you own for something that you want:
14 the activity of buying and selling shares, investments, etc. or an occasion when people do this:
15 to sell a lot of something:
16 a particular business or industry, and the people who work in it:
18 to give something that you own as part of the payment for something that you buy, especially a new type of the same product:
19 to exist and operate as a business:
trade as sth The company trades as 'Pioneer Clothing'.
The supermarket ceased trading in 2009.
22 to exchange something, or to stop doing or using something and start doing or using something else instead:
The investigation uncovered evidence of a large-scale illegal trade in wild birds.
The latest trade figures have dealt a severe blow to hopes of an early economic recovery.
There's a flourishing trade in second-hand video machines.
There's a flourishing trade in second-hand video machines.
His is a family trade, passed down from generation to generation.
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