imp. of tread.
2. trade ·v the trade winds.
3. trade ·v instruments of any occupation.
4. trade ·v refuse or rubbish from a mine.
5. trade ·v course; custom; practice; occupation; employment.
6. trade ·vi to buy and sell or exchange property in a single instance.
7. trade ·v a track; a trail; a way; a path; also, passage; travel; resort.
8. trade ·vt to sell or exchange in commerce; to barter.
9. trade ·v business of any kind; matter of mutual consideration; affair; dealing.
10. trade ·vi to have dealings; to be concerned or associated;
usually followed by with.
11. trade ·v specifically: the act or business of exchanging commodities by barter, or by buying and selling for money; commerce; traffic; barter.
12. trade ·v a company of men engaged in the same occupation; thus, booksellers and publishers speak of the customs of the trade, and are collectively designated as the trade.
13. trade ·vi to barter, or to buy and sell; to be engaged in the exchange, purchase, or sale of goods, wares, merchandise, or anything else; to traffic; to bargain; to carry on commerce as a business.
14. trade ·v the business which a person has learned, and which he engages in, for procuring subsistence, or for profit; occupation; especially, mechanical employment as distinguished from the liberal arts, the learned professions, and agriculture; as, we speak of the trade of a smith, of a carpenter, or mason, but not now of the trade of a farmer, or a lawyer, or a physician.