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ROARING TRADE

Specialty Definition: ROARING TRADE

DomainDefinition

Literature

Roaring Trade He drives a roaring trade. He does a great business; his employees are driven till all their wind is gone. Hence fast, quick. (See above.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Slang in 1811

ROARING TRADE. A quick trade. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms within Context: ROARING TRADE

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Prosperity

Verb: prosper, thrive, flourish; be prosperous; Adjective: drive a roaring trade, do a booming business; go on well, go on smoothly, go on swimmingly; sail before the wind, swim with the tide; run smooth, run smoothly, run on all fours.

Noun: prosperity, welfare, well-being; affluence; (wealth); success; thrift, roaring trade; good fortune, smiles of fortune; blessings, godsend.

Success

Speed; make progress; (advance); win one's way, make one's way, work one's way, find one's way; strive to some purpose; prosper; drive a roaring trade; make profit; (acquire); reap the fruits, gather the fruits, reap the benefit of, reap the harvest; strike oil , gain a windfall; make one's fortune, get in the harvest, turn to good account; turn to account; (use).

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: ROARING TRADE

Specialty definitions using "ROARING TRADE": Autolycus. (references)

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Modern Translation: ROARING TRADE

Language Translations for "ROARING TRADE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

Bombengeschäft. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oaringray adetray

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: ROARING TRADE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-g-i-n-o-r-r-r-t"

-2 letters: denigrator.

-3 letters: aragonite, arraigned, arrogated, gradation, indagator, regardant, retarding, tragedian.

-4 letters: adroiter, aerating, aeration, anterior, antidora, arointed, arranged, arranger, arrogant, arrogate, derating, dragonet, drainage, gardenia, garroted, garroter, gerardia, gradient, indagate, narrated, narrater, narrator, orangier, ordainer, ordering, ordinate, organdie, radiator, rationed, redating, reordain, tarragon, terraria, torrider, treading.

-5 letters: adoring, adorner, aerator, agatoid, airdate, anergia, aneroid.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-d-e-g-i-n-o-r-r-r-t"
 

+2 letters: retrogradation.

 

+3 letters: retrogradations.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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