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Trade
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(v.) Specifically: The act or business of exchanging commodities by barter, or by buying and selling for money; commerce; traffic; barter.
(2):
(v. i.) 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.
(3):
(v. i.) To buy and sell or exchange property in a single instance.
(4):
(v.) Business of any kind; matter of mutual consideration; affair; dealing.
(5):
(v.) Course; custom; practice; occupation; employment.
(6):
(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.
(7):
(v.) Instruments of any occupation.
(8):
(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.
(9):
imp. of Tread.
(10):
(v.) The trade winds.
(11):
(v.) Refuse or rubbish from a mine.
(12):
(v. i.) To have dealings; to be concerned or associated; - usually followed by with.
(13):
(v. t.) To sell or exchange in commerce; to barter.
(14):
(v.) A track; a trail; a way; a path; also, passage; travel; resort.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Trade'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/t/trade.html. 1828.
