The exchange or buying and selling of commodities; esp. the exchange of merchandise, on a large scale, between different places or communities; extended trade or traffic.
Social intercourse; the dealings of one person or class in society with another; familiarity.
Sexual intercourse.
A round game at cards, in which the cards are subject to exchange, barter, or trade.
To carry on trade; to traffic.
To hold intercourse; to commune.
A track; a trail; a way; a path; also, passage; travel; resort.
Course; custom; practice; occupation; employment.
Business of any kind; matter of mutual consideration; affair; dealing.
Specifically: The act or business of exchanging commodities by barter, or by buying and selling for money; commerce; traffic; barter.
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.
Instruments of any occupation.
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.
The trade winds.
Refuse or rubbish from a mine.
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.
To buy and sell or exchange property in a single instance.
To have dealings; to be concerned or associated; - usually followed by with.
To sell or exchange in commerce; to barter.
imp. of Tread.
