trade
part of speech
noun (trade, trades); verb (trade, trades, traded, trading)
meaning for a pupil
1) Trade is the buying and selling of goods between people, shops or countries. tree →
2) To trade is to swap one thing for another. tree →
3) A trade is a job that needs skill with the hands, like a plumber or electrician. tree →
4) A trade is a single swap or deal. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Here it means to do business and buy and sell in the land. In the primary lessons: In history and geography lessons trade explains why towns grew by rivers and ports, and how countries sell goods to each other (trade routes, the Silk Road, fair trade). In the playground children trade cards and stickers. Phrases: trade in, trade for, fair trade, trade route, by trade (a carpenter by trade), trade places.
examples
- And ye shall dwell with us; and the land shall be before you; dwell and trade ye therein, and get you possessions therein.' (Torah GEN.34.10, JPS 1917) tree →
- They of the house of Togarmah traded for thy wares with horses and horsemen and mules. (Prophets EZK.27.14, JPS 1917) tree →
- Vedan and Javan traded with yarn for thy wares; massive iron, cassia, and calamus, were among thy merchandise. (Prophets EZK.27.19, JPS 1917) tree →
- Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy traffickers; they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass for thy merchandise. (Prophets EZK.27.13, JPS 1917) tree →
- I traded my apple for her biscuit. tree →
- Ancient ships carried trade across the sea. tree →
- The Vikings traded furs and silver. tree →
- Do you want to trade cards? tree →
- My uncle is a builder by trade. tree →
- That was a fair trade. tree →
- Fair trade chocolate gives farmers a better price. tree →
- Dad traded in his old car for a new one. tree →
- You yourself asked me my trade. tree →
note
Verb is regular (traded). As «buying and selling» trade is uncountable; as «a swap» or «a job» it is countable (a good trade, skilled trades). In a swap problem nothing is added or lost — the totals stay the same, only who owns what changes. A trade is fair when both sides think they got about the same value.
In the corpora
- They of the house of Togarmah traded for thy wares with horses and horsemen and mules.
- Vedan and Javan traded with yarn for thy wares; massive iron, cassia, and calamus, were among thy merchandise.
- Many lorises are caught illegally for the pet trade and have their teeth pulled out; all lorises are protected by international law.
- Oranges came from Asia and spread along trade routes; in English the colour orange was named after the fruit.
- He is not a deep-ocean sailor: «I'm in the coasting trade, and rarely out of sight of land.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «trade» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.