Usually means: Exchange of goods or services.
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We found 62 dictionaries that define the word trade:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. trade: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. trade: Merriam-Webster
  3. trade, trade, the trade: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. trade: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. trade: Collins English Dictionary
  6. trade: Vocabulary.com
  7. Trade, trade: Wordnik
  8. trade, the trade: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. trade: Wiktionary
  10. trade: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. trade: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. trade: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. trade: Dictionary.com
  14. trade (n.), trade (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. trade: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. The Trade, The trade, Trade (disambiguation), Trade (film), Trade (financial instrument), Trade (gay slang), Trade (nightclub), Trade (occupation), Trade (profession), Trade (sports): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Trade: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. trade: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. trade: Rhymezone
  20. trade: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. trade: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Trade: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. trade: FreeDictionary.org
  24. trade: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. trade: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. trade: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  27. Trade: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. trade: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. trade: Law.com Dictionary
  4. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. Trade: bizterms.net
  7. Trade: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  8. Trade: Harvey Financial
  9. eyefortransport e-commerce transportation glossary (No longer online)
  10. Trade: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
  11. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  12. Trade: Investopedia
  13. trade: Legal dictionary
  14. Trade: Financial dictionary
  15. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  16. Trade: WashingtonPost.com: Business

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. trade: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. trade: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. Trade: Africa Glossary
  3. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. TRADE: Acronym Finder
  5. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  6. trade: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Postmodern Bible Dictionary (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. trade, trade, trade: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. trade: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Trade, the trade: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)

(Note: See tradable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (uncountable) Buying and selling of goods and services on a market.
noun:  (countable) A particular instance of buying or selling.
noun:  (countable) An instance of bartering items in exchange for one another.
noun:  (countable) Those who perform a particular kind of skilled work.
noun:  (countable) Those engaged in an industry or group of related industries.
noun:  (countable) The skilled practice of a practical occupation.
noun:  (countable or uncountable) An occupation in the secondary sector, as opposed to an agricultural, professional or military one.
noun:  (uncountable, UK) The business given to a commercial establishment by its customers.
noun:  (chiefly in the plural) Steady winds blowing from east to west above and below the equator.
noun:  (only as plural) A publication intended for participants in an industry or related group of industries.
noun:  (uncountable, gay slang) A masculine man available for casual sex with men, often for pay. (Compare rough trade.)
noun:  (obsolete, uncountable) Instruments of any occupation.
noun:  (mining) Refuse or rubbish from a mine.
noun:  (obsolete) A track or trail; a way; a path; passage.
noun:  (obsolete) Course; custom; practice; occupation.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To engage in trade.
verb:  (finance, intransitive, copulative) To be traded at a certain price or under certain conditions.
verb:  (transitive, with for) To give (something) in exchange (for).
verb:  (transitive) To mutually exchange (something) (with).
verb:  (transitive, with on) To use or exploit a particular aspect, such as a name, reputation, or image, to gain advantage or benefit.
verb:  (horticulture, transitive or intransitive) To give someone a plant and receive a different one in return.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood.
verb:  (intransitive) To have dealings; to be concerned or associated (with).
verb:  (transitive) To recommend and get recommendations.
adjective:  Of a product, produced for sale in the ordinary bulk retail trade and hence of only the most basic quality.

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