What is the meaning of trade?

Answer 1

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.