0 past simple and past participle of trade
1 to buy and sell goods or services, especially between countries:
2 to exchange something, or to stop using or doing something and start using or doing something else instead:
It was several months before the company started to trade profitably .
In the meantime, the shares will continue to trade on the open market.
It is a well-respected family business which has traded in the town for over 50 years.
Tobacco worked well for farmers, who soon found that it was more profitable if traded outside of the colonial marketing system.
Violence purported to cover the loss of authority and askesis eliminated nameless but dangerous desires; sometimes the two traded places.
This is not an unreasonable assumption given the extent of the labor traded in the sampled villages.