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• the firm openly traded in arms.
• early explorers traded directly with the indians.
• trading partners (= countries that you trade with)
• our products are now traded worldwide.

trade

1. to buy and sell things
• The firm openly traded in arms.
• Early explorers traded directly with the Indians.
• trading partners (= countries that you trade with)
• Our products are now traded worldwide.
2. to exist and operate as a business or company
• The firm has now ceased trading.
• They traded as ‘Walker and Son’.
3. to be bought and sold, or to buy and sell something, on a stock exchange
• Shares were trading at under half their usual value.
4. to exchange something that you have for something that somebody else has
• to trade secrets/insults/jokes
• She traded her posters for his CD.
• I wouldn't mind trading places with her for a day.

Extra Examples

• He claimed that all businesses should be able to trade freely on Sundays.
• The company has now ceased trading.
• The company openly traded in arms.
• The company trades under the name ‘English Estates’.
• They now trade as a partnership.
• countries trading illegally in rhinoceros horn
• publicly traded securities
• After settling in Madeira they began trading in flour, sugar and leather.
• Cabinet colleagues traded insults over the future of the pound.
• I wouldn’t mind trading places with her for a day.
• The countries are now trading partners.
• The futures contract is traded at a clean price and does not include accrued interest payments.

Verb Forms

• present simple I / you / we / they trade
• he / she / it trades
• past simple traded
• past participle traded
• -ing form trading

Word Origin

• late Middle English (as a noun): from Middle Low German, literally ‘track’, of West Germanic origin; related to tread. Early senses included ‘course, way of life’, which gave rise in the 16th cent. to ‘habitual practice of an occupation’, ‘skilled handicraft’. The current verb senses date from the late 16th cent.