trade
/tɹeɪd/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.12 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A particular instance of buying or selling, or a series of related transactions executed as a single investment.
Countable
noun
An occupation in the secondary sector, as opposed to an agricultural, professional or military one.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "I did no trades with them once the rumors started."
- ""Sell America" is the latest trade on Wall Street."
- "EXCHANGE — A trade or swap of no material profit to either side."
- "When Golden State matched the Knicks' offer sheet, the Warriors and Knicks worked out a trade that sent King to New York for Richardson."
- "The skilled trades were the first to organize modern labor unions."
- "But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dreh₂- Proto-Germanic *tradō Proto-West Germanic *trudo Old Saxon tradader. Middle Low German tradeder. Middle English trade English trade From Middle English trade (“path, course of conduct”), introduced into English by Hanseatic merchants, from Middle Low German trade (“track, course”), from Old Saxon trada (“spoor, track”), from Proto-West Germanic *tradu, from Proto-Germanic *tradō (“track, way”), and cognate with Old English tredan (“to tread”); ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dreh₂- (“to tread, walk, step, run”). Cognate with Dutch trade, tra (“path, trail, course, trade”), German Low German Traad (“track, wagon trail”), Luxembourgish Tratt (“step, pace”), Icelandic tröð (“a lane between fences, enclosure, pen”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: trade, trada, *tradu, *tradō, *dreh₂-
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /tɹeɪd/
- British English: /tɹeɪd/