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Definition: Trade |
TradeAdjective1. Relating to or used in or intended for trade or commerce; "a trade fair"; "trade journals"; "trade goods". Noun1. The commercial exchange (buying and selling on domestic or international markets) of goods and services; "Venice was an important center of trade with the East"; "they are accused of conspiring to constrain trade". 2. People who perform a particular kind of skilled work; "he represented the craft of brewers"; "as they say in the trade". 3. An equal exchange; "we had no money so we hd to live by barter". 4. The skilled practice of a practical occupation; "he learned his trade as an apprentice". 5. A particular instance of buying or selling; "it was a package deal"; "I had no further trade with him"; "he's a master of the business deal". 6. The business given to a commercial establishment by its customers: "even before noon there was a considerable patronage". 7. Steady winds blowing from east to west above and below the equator; "they rode the trade winds going west". Verb1. Engage in the trade of. 2. Turn in as payment or part payment for a purchase; "trade in an old car for a new one". 3. Be traded at a certain price or under certain conditions: "The stock traded around $20 a share". 4. Exchange or give (something) in exchange for. 5. Do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood; "She deals in gold"; "The brothers sell shoes". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "trade" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1120. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Building & Civil Engineering | One of or all the occupations of tradesmen/craftsmen in building. Source: European Union. (references) |
Business | Broadside: a giant folder, often sent as a self-mailer used especially in direct-mail advertising to the --. Source: European Union. (references) |
| The sum of exports and imports of goods and services. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of trading, denotes fair success in your enterprise. If you fail, trouble and annoyances will overtake you. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Finance | A verbal(or electronic)transaction involving one party buying a security from another party. Once a trade is consummated, it is considered "done" or final. Settlement occurs 1-5 business days later. Source: European Union. (references) |
| The consummation of the purchase or sale of a security. (references) | |
Law | Any industrial, craft or artisan occupation which is officially or traditionally recognised as requiring special qualifications which can be acquired only by several years of practical and theorical instruction and of experience. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Free trade is an economic concept referring to the selling of products between countries without tariffs or other trade barriers. International trade is often constricted by different national taxes, other fees imposed on exported and imported goods, as well as non-tariff regulations on imported goods; free trade is against all these restrictions.Some multi-national entities, such as the European Union, have implemented free trade in some forms between their member nations (customs union). However, there is continuing debate whether free trade would help third world nations with different economic problems and whether free trade is good for the developed world.
Arguments for and against free trade
Many economists argue that free trade increases the standard of living through the law of comparative advantage and economies of scale. Others argue that free trade allows developed nations to exploit developing nations and to destroy local industry in addition to circumventing social and labor standards. Conversely it has also been argued that free trade hurts developed nations because it causes jobs from those nations to move to other countries as well as producing a race to the bottom which causes a general lowering of health and safety standards.
In addition, the current implementation of free trade has been criticized by advocates of free trade itself. One complaint is that developed nations tend to insist that developing nations open their markets to industrial products from the developed world, yet refuse to open their markets to agricultural goods from the developing world. Furthermore it has been noted that the current concept of free trade supports the free movement of products and employers, which favors the developed nations, but not the free movement of employees (i.e., labor), which would favor the people of developing nations. (See also: Immigration.)
Intellectual property and free trade
Historically, the free trade movement was skeptical and even hostile to the notion of intellectual property, regarded as monopolistic and harmful to a free, competitive economy. Indeed, during the late 19th century, free trade advocates succeeded in reducing the length of the patents available in many European countries. The Netherlands even abolished its patent system (temporarily, as it turned out).
The 19th century anti-patent cause failed largely because the recession of 1874 discredited the free trade movement of the time (and also because patent advocates used a public relations campaign which was remarkably sophisticated for its time).
It is thus quite remarkable (some would even say ironic) that corporations lobbying for expanded intellectual property privileges have succeeded in including TRIPS, a very strong treaty on intellectual property rights, as a membership requirement for the World Trade Organization, the international organization dedicated to furthering the cause of free trade.
See also
- Free market
- International trade
- Privatization
References
- Fritz Machlup & Edith Penrose, "The Patent Controversy in the 19th Century", Journal of Economic History, 10 (1) pp 1-29, 1950.
Links
Pro-free trade/free-market
- Arguments for Free Trade from the Mises Institute
- Lewrockwell.com
- The Cato Institute's Free Trade website
- Techcentralstation.com
- The Heritage Foundation
- The Future of Freedom Foundation
- The Heartland Institute
- The Foundation for Economic Education
- The American Enterprise Institute
- The Timbro Institute (Sweden)
Opponents of free trade
- United States Reform Party
- Ross Perot
- Pat Buchanan
- AFL-CIO
- Ralph Nader
- US Green Party
- Indymedia.org
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Free trade."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Trade is the exchange of goods or services among two or more parties. In its original form trade had to be negotiated through barter and the exchange of goods and services of a recognized equal value that was wanted by both parties. Modern trade is generally negotiated through the use of a medium of exchange, i.e. money, and rarely through barter: as a result one can separate buying and earning or selling. The invention of money greatly simplified and promoted the development of trade.
History
See also: International trade, Trade bloc, Business, Retail, Arms trade.
- Internal and External Trade History
- Barter
- Silent trade
- Introduction of Money
- The Silk Route
- The Age of Discovery
- Mercantilism
- Trans-Atlantic Triangular Trade
- Capitalism
- Innovations in transport
- Colonialism and neo-colonialism
- Protectionism and free trade
- The World Trade Organisation (WTO)
- Commodities, Goods and Intellectual Property
- Globalisation
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Trade."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
TRADE | English | Directorate-General for Trade | European Union |
| TRA | English | Trade readjustment allowance | Statistics |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: TradeSynonyms: trade(a) (adj), barter (n), business deal (n), craft (n), deal (n), patronage (n), quid pro quo (n), swop (n), trade wind (n), merchandise (v), sell (v), swap (v), switch (v), trade in (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Business | Vocation, calling, profession, cloth, faculty; industry, art; industrial arts; craft, mystery, handicraft; trade; (commerce). |
Mart | Verb: speculate, invest, trade, trade stocks, play the market; buy long, sell short, take a position, straddle; take a plunge, plunge in, take a flier. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I do know this: Kevin would trade it all for a chance to be normal, to have a friend, and to do what other kids do. Max Casey has given that chance (The Mighty; writing credit: Charles Leavitt. Based on the novel 'Freak the Mighty' by Rodman Philbrick.) If I could trade places with my husband, I would (Double Jeopardy; writing credit: David Weisberg; Douglas Cook) He suggests a trade. The egg for your life (Octopussy; writing credit: George MacDonald Fraser) Yes, shrubberies are my trade. I am a shrubber (Monty Python and the Holy Grail; writing credit: Graham Chapman; John Cleese) I am willing to trade my life for his. I am smart, and I am willing, and that is all it takes (In the Line of Fire; writing credit: Jeff Maguire) | |
Lyrics | It's a kiss a diss and trade it for a coo hah (Just Push Play; performing artist: Aerosmith) But I'd trade all of my tomorrows for one single yesterday (Me & Bobby McGee; performing artist: Janis Joplin) Well I wouldn’t trade my life for diamonds and jewels (Thank God I’m A Country Boy; performing artist: John Denver) with this World Trade (Po' Folks; performing artist: Nappy Roots) He'll trade the world ("When a Man Loves a Woman"; performing artist: Percy Sledge) | |
Clever | Don't learn the tricks of the trade, learn the trade. (references; author: unknown) Get a new car for your spouse, it'll be a great trade! (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Take It Out in Trade (1970) Trick and the Trade (1970) Tricks of the Trade (1968) The Rag Trade (1961) Trade Fair (1952) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | View of Manhattan and World Trade Center towers from Liberty Island. New York City. Smog, air pollution. Credit: CDC. |  | Level crew with the tools of the trade Level party of Caspar Durgin. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | The tools of the trade for navigating during launch hydrography Metallic and plastic three-arm protractors for plotting three-point fixes Sextant in background 1931 Hydrographic Manual. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Golf course on the Kona coast. Palm trees moulded by direction of prevailing trade winds. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | World Trade Center at New York during transit between SHOALS Lidar survey sites. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Manhattan - World Trade Center. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | Normally an oceanographic phenomenon known as upwelling keeps the surface waters of the southeast Pacific Ocean cold and teeming with small pelagics that are fished by purse seiners. Upwelling occurs in this zone when southeasterly trade winds , produced by the South Pacific anti-cyclone, along with other facto rs drive coastal waters out to sea, forcing deep nutrient-rich waters to rise. Credit: Fisheries. |  | Fishing boats tied up at the Portland Marine Trade Center. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | Gloves for relief workers at the World Trade Center. |  | Food service workers will trade in their white uniforms for distinctive "chefs" jackets and blue trousers. The Air Force chief of staff recently approved the new uniform which establishes a standard uniform for wear by people working in dining f. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Tools of the Trade 2" by Lisa McDonald Commentary: "Items in beauty salon." | "World Trade Center Subway Stat" by Greg Schmigel Commentary: "A shot of the subway station steps outside Ground Zero at the World Trade Center in New York City See these images and more at www.27cm.com." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Benjamin Franklin | No nation was ever ruined by trade. |
Elbert Hubbard | Rivalry is the life of trade, and the death of the trader. |
George Borrow | A losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug. |
George Sand | The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession. |
John Ruskin | Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade. |
Kenny Rogers | There is a trade off -- as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity. |
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus | Love the little trade which thou hast learned, and be content therewith. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering Trade. |
Walt Whitman | And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | Thus people, riches, trade, power, change their stations, flourishing mighty cities come to ruin, and prove in times neglected desolate corners, whilst other unfrequented places grow into populous countries, filled with wealth and inhabitants. (Second Treatise of Government) |
US Constitution | 1791 | In January 1786, the Legislature of Virginia passed a resolution providing for the appointment of five commissioners, who, or any three of them, should meet such commissioners as might be appointed in the other States of the Union, at a time and place to be agreed upon, to take into consideration the trade of the United States; to consider how far a uniform system in their commercial regulations may be necessary to their common interest and their permanent harmony; and to report to the several States such an act, relative to this great object, as, when ratified by them, will enable the United States in Congress effectually to provide for the same. (reference) |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | By freedom is meant, under the present bourgeois conditions of production, free trade, free selling and buying. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | China, restored to the full exercise of her sovereign rights in the above areas, declares her intention of opening them to international residence and trade. (reference) |
Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | Because you see the 46 millions in our island harassed about their food supply, of which they only grow one half, even in war-time, or because we have difficulty in restarting our industries and export trade after six years of passionate war effort, do not suppose that we shall not come through these dark years of privation as we have come through the glorious years of agony, or that half a century from now, you will not see 70 or 80 millions of Britons spread about the world and united in defense of our traditions, our way of life, and of the world causes which you and we espouse. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
United Nations | 1948 | Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | He quitted the militia and engaged in trade, having brothers already established in a good way in London, which afforded him a favourable opening |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | She detests the serpent through rivalry of trade. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | (r)Mules! Hey, Joe, hear this? This guys wants to trade mules |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | He asked what business we had out of our own islands, unless upon the score of trade or treaty, or to defend the coasts with our fleet |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | It is the only trade I have learned |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Use of trade names is for identification only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (references) | |
Increasing use of methamphetamine is reported among male and female commercial sex workers who also trade sex for drugs and among members of motorcycle gangs. (references) | ||
Trade, proprietary, or company names appearing in this document are used only because they are considered necessary in the context of the information provided. (references) | ||
Business | INVESTCITY is a trade event attracting architects. (references) | |
Invitations to U.S. trade shows are also suggested. (references) | ||
Two local furniture trade shows in Jeddah and Riyadh. (references) | ||
Children | Thailand | Parents who allow a child to enter the trade also are punishable. (references) |
Guyana | UNICEF has criticized the practice in which girls trade sexual favors for money, gifts, or help in employment or higher education, a practice sometimes condoned by their parents yet obscured by cultural norms. (references) | |
Cote d'Ivoire | These steps include holding parents legally and financially responsible for their abandoned children and the development of training centers where children can learn a trade; however, parents are not made accountable in practice. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Egypt | Most such publications are printed in a free trade zone. (references) |
Azerbaijan | The parties to the conflict have cut normal trade and transportation links to the other side, causing severe hardship to civilians on all sides. (references) | |
Turkey | Officials of the teacher's trade union face charges of "insulting the army and judiciary" for statements made during a December 2000 labor rally. (references) | |
Economic History | Norway | Trade barriers are relatively few. (references) |
Russia | Trade and Development Agency (TDA). (references) | |
India | Source : Unofficial trade estimates. (references) | |
Human Rights | Hungary | No judge or member of the Supreme or Constitutional Courts may belong to a political party, or a trade union. (references) |
Philippines | Favored inmates reportedly enjoy access to outside contacts, enabling them to trade in prostitution and drugs. (references) | |
China | Li had served 11 years in prison for his role in presiding over the Shaoyang Workers Autonomous Federation, a Tiananmen-era free trade union. (references) | |
Minorities | Panama | All three groups operate much of the country's retail trade, particularly in urban areas. (references) |
Panama | Legal and illegal immigrants, especially Chinese, are accorded fewer legal protections than are citizens for their trade activities. (references) | |
Panama | A constitutional provision reserving retail trade for Panamanian citizens is not enforced in practice; however, immigrants legally cannot own their businesses and sometimes encounter bureaucratic difficulties in practicing their professions. (references) | |
Political Economy | JAPAN | Japan's protection of trade secrets is inadequate. (references) |
EL SALVADOR | Computer software is protected, as are trade secrets. (references) | |
EGYPT | Product specification also can be a barrier to trade. (references) | |
Political Rights | Colombia | There were 4 women in the 16-member cabinet (the Ministers of Health, Culture, Communications, and Foreign Trade) and 7 vice ministers. (references) |
Albania | In the Government, one woman serves as Minister of Foreign Affairs and another served as the Minister of Economic Trade and Development. (references) | |
Belgium | The regional governments are charged with matters that directly affect the geographical regions and the material well-being of their residents, such as commerce and trade, public works, and environmental policy. (references) | |
Trade | Guinea | Banks prefer to finance trade. (references) |
Maldives | LC's form the basis for most trade. (references) | |
Benin | Benin does not have a free trade zone. (references) | |
Travel | Cote D'ivoire | Ninety percent of international trade is through sea transportation. (references) |
Chile | Business operations develop in a climate of free enterprise and free trade. (references) | |
Uae | The fare from the World Trade Center to the Jebel Ali Free Trade Zone is about Dhs. 105-110 (US $ 30-36). (references) | |
Women | Djibouti | Few women work in managerial and professional positions; women largely are confined to trade and secretarial fields. (references) |
Singapore | The Women's Charter gives women, among other rights, the right to own property, conduct trade, and receive divorce settlements. (references) | |
Malaysia | In 1999 Malaysian Trade Union Congress President Zainal Rampak urged trade unions to fulfill the ILO policy of filling 30 percent of leadership positions with women. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Burundi | In 1995 a rival trade union, COSYBU, was founded. (references) |
Ghana | The IRA governs trade unions and their activities. (references) | |
Kazakhstan | Most independent trade unions belong to the CFTUK. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | TARIFF, n. A scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic producer against the greed of his consumer. The Enemy of Human Souls Sat grieving at the cost of coals; For Hell had been annexed of late, And was a sovereign Southern State. "It were no more than right," said he, "That I should get my fuel free. The duty, neither just nor wise, Compels me to economize -- Whereby my broilers, every one, Are execrably underdone. What would they have? -- although I yearn To do them nicely to a turn, I can't afford an honest heat. This tariff makes even devils cheat! I'm ruined, and my humble trade All rascals may at will invade: Beneath my nose the public press Outdoes me in sulphureousness; The bar ingeniously applies To my undoing my own lies; My medicines the doctors use (Albeit vainly) to refuse To me my fair and rightful prey And keep their own in shape to pay; The preachers by example teach What, scorning to perform, I teach; And statesmen, aping me, all make More promises than they can break. Against such competition I Lift up a disregarded cry. Since all ignore my just complaint, By Hokey-Pokey! I'll turn saint!" Now, the Republicans, who all Are saints, began at once to bawl Against his competition; so There was a devil of a go! They locked horns with him, tete-a-tete In acrimonious debate, Till Democrats, forlorn and lone, Had hopes of coming by their own. That evil to avert, in haste The two belligerents embraced; But since 'twere wicked to relax A tittle of the Sacred Tax, 'Twas finally agreed to grant The bold Insurgent-protestant A bounty on each soul that fell Into his ineffectual Hell. Edam Smith |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Harry Belafonte | On another channel, getting ready to launch a work that I had just done. I was on NBC and just about to go down to the World Trade Center for breakfast. Had the incident happened just an hour later, I might very well have been one of its victims. |
Mark Shields | We have to take a break, but when we come back we'll ask Secretary of Commerce Don Evans if trade negotiation authority is essential for the U.S. economy. |
Robert Novak | Mark, Elizabeth Dole had nothing but praise for Jesse Helms, but she was wise to say that the people of North Carolina are not going to get a Jesse Helms vote on every issue, including international trade. |
Rush Limbaugh | An industry trade publication noted that Federal City lost one and a half million dollars in its first three years in business. |
Tim Johnson | Well, I'll take each issue as it comes. As you know, I've also voted against party leadership on some of the trade issues. I voted against on some tax issues in the past, when President Clinton tried to range the BTU tax, energy tax. |
Tony Blair | I was literally just about to give a speech. In fact, I was about to address our trade union congress. And it's one of those events, obviously, where you will never forget where you were and what you were doing at the time. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Washington | 1789-1797 | Your attention seems to be not less due to that particular branch of our trade which belongs to the Mediterranean. |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | Under this new law of the ocean our trade on the Mediterranean has been swept away by seizures and condemnations, and that in other seas is threatened with the same fate. |
John Quincy Adams | 1825-1829 | With all the rest we have free trade, even with the insular colonies of all the European nations, except Great Britain. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | Economic recovery and peace itself depend on increased world trade. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | Questions of economic and trade policy can always be negotiated. |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | World trade and monetary structure provides markets, energy, food, and vital raw materials--for all nations. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | But free trade must also be fair trade. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | One out of every five jobs in our country depends on trade. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | More than two million American jobs depend upon trade with Asia. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | Selling into new markets creates new jobs, so I ask Congress to finally approve trade promotion authority. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Trade" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.93% of the time. "Trade" is used about 19,175 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 95.93% | 18,394 | 504 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 3.62% | 694 | 9,593 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.32% | 62 | 42,755 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.13% | 24 | 71,196 |
| Total | 100.00% | 19,175 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| China | Shanghai Lujiazui Finance & Trade Zone Development Co., Ltd | France | GL Trade |
| Russian Federation | Trade House Gum OAO | United Kingdom | World Trade Systems Plc |
| USA | Paragon Trade Brands Incorporated | ||
| (more examples...) |
Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
1. Trade, TN |
Expressions using "trade": a jeweller by trade ♦ adverse balance of trade ♦ annual trade show ♦ antique trade ♦ article of trade ♦ balance of trade ♦ barter trade ♦ belonging to the trade union ♦ bilateral trade ♦ block trade ♦ board of trade ♦ board of Trade unit ♦ book trade ♦ building trade ♦ by trade ♦ carriage trade ♦ carrying trade ♦ catering trade ♦ cattle trade ♦ center of trade ♦ centre of trade ♦ channels of trade ♦ christmas trade ♦ clandestine trade ♦ coasting trade ♦ combination in restraint of trade ♦ commodity trade ♦ cotton trade ♦ defense Trade Regulations ♦ diamond trade ♦ do a good trade ♦ domestic trade ♦ earlier trade marks ♦ european free trade association ♦ every one his trade ♦ expert in a line of trade ♦ export trade ♦ external trade ♦ external trade gap ♦ eyeglass trade ♦ favourable trade balance ♦ fine trade bill ♦ floating trade ♦ flow of trade ♦ for the promotion of trade ♦ foreign trade ♦ foreign trade deficit ♦ foreign trade monopoly ♦ free trade ♦ free trade area ♦ free trade zone ♦ freedom of trade ♦ general Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ♦ harmonised nomenclature for the foreign trade statistics of the EEC countries ♦ harmonized nomenclature for the foreign trade statistics of the EEC countries ♦ home trade ♦ horse trade ♦ illegal trade ♦ illicit trade ♦ illicit trade in antiquities ♦ import trade ♦ impose trade sanctions on ♦ inland trade ♦ intermediate trade ♦ internal trade ♦ international trade ♦ international trade commission ♦ interstate trade ♦ itinerant trade ♦ know all the tricks of the trade ♦ knowledge of a trade ♦ learn a trade ♦ learn one's trade ♦ maritime trade ♦ measures affecting trade in services ♦ minister of trade and commerce ♦ Multilateral Trade Organisation ♦ Multilateral Trade Organization ♦ ocean trade ♦ of trade policy ♦ open air trade ♦ open trade policy ♦ overseas trade ♦ paper trade ♦ ply a trade ♦ produce trade ♦ promote trade ♦ rag trade ♦ reciprocal trade ♦ restraint of trade ♦ retail book trade ♦ retail trade ♦ retail trade survey ♦ scrap trade ♦ sea trade ♦ seasonal trade ♦ secretary of trade and commerce ♦ sell to the trade ♦ shepherd's trade ♦ single trade union centre ♦ slave trade. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "trade": Trade-a-plane, trade-association, trade-based, trade-conscious, trade-distorting, trade-fallen, trade-finance, trade-goods, trade-in, trade-in car, trade-in value, trade-in-discount, trade-ins, trade-last, trade-liberalisation, trade-mark, trade-name, trade-names, trade-off, trade-offs, trade-orientated, trade-oriented, trade-promotion, trade-related, trade-replacing, trade-reported, trade-retaliation, trade-route, trade-routes, trade-source, trade-store, trade-the-cheapest, trade-track, trade-union, trade-unionism, trade-unionist, trade-unionists, trade-unions, trade-union-sponsored, trade-up, trade-weighted. | |
Ending with "trade": anti-trade, ex-trade, extra-trade, fair-trade, free-trade, intra-trade, non-trade, slave-trade, visible-trade. | |
Containing "trade": anti-trade-union. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
world trade center | 5,548 | trade secret | 343 |
federal trade commission | 1,862 | trade stock | 340 |
trade show | 1,830 | chicago board of trade | 338 |
trade | 1,462 | world trade organization | 332 |
arabia free trade zone | 1,443 | trade lead | 308 |
trade school | 1,365 | mlb trade rumor | 300 |
nba trade rumor | 1,194 | world trade center picture | 299 |
africa free trade zone | 880 | 999 b b grindcore list metal trade | 252 |
trade show display | 775 | trade show marketing | 236 |
international trade | 730 | baseball trade rumor | 227 |
world trade center memorial | 628 | federal trade commision | 224 |
auto trade | 596 | center gibraltar trade | 204 |
world trade center pin | 595 | free trade | 196 |
trade show exhibit | 588 | it trade | 194 |
trade show booth | 468 | fair trade | 193 |
nhl trade rumor | 451 | nba trade | 184 |
china trade | 390 | world trade center photo | 181 |
trade a plane | 388 | slave trade | 174 |
scott trade | 365 | trade association | 164 |
hockey trade rumor | 344 | buy sell trade | 162 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "trade"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | handel (business, commerce), beroep (appeal, handicraft, occupation, profession), bedryf (accomplish, achieve, act, carry out, certificate, diploma, do, document, enterprise, handicraft, keep, make, observe, occupation, perform, profession), ambag (handicraft, occupation). (various references) | |
Albanian | tregtoj (deal, handle, vend), tregtisë, tregti (business |