TRADE
What does "TRADE" mean?
The buying and selling of goods and services, or a skilled occupation.
Meanings
- The activity of buying, selling, or exchanging goods and services. Spices drove much of the world's early sea trade.
- A skilled job, especially one needing manual training, such as plumbing or carpentry. He learned the electrician's trade from his uncle.
- To buy and sell, or to exchange one thing for another. The boys traded baseball cards after school.
Did you know?
- 'Trade' began as a word for a 'track' or trodden path - the same root as 'tread'. Commerce got its name from the well-worn course a craftsman or merchant followed day after day.
Word origin
From Middle Low German 'trade', meaning 'track' or 'course', related to 'tread'; originally a 'path' or 'course of action', the sense shifting to a regular occupation and then to commerce.
Remember it
TRADE shares its 'tre-' tread-root with the path you walk; a trade is the well-trodden path of your work, and to trade is to swap along the way.
A little poem
I gave you wheat, you gave me wool and trust;
the oldest bridge between two strangers' wants.
couplet
Wordplay
- I quit my desk job to become a carpenter. People said I was making a bad trade, but honestly I think I nailed it.
What it teaches
Every trade is a small act of trust: you let go of what you have, betting the other side will too.
Quick facts
What does TRADE mean?
The buying and selling of goods and services, or a skilled occupation.
Is TRADE a valid word?
Yes — TRADE is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is TRADE?
TRADE has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does TRADE come from?
From Middle Low German 'trade', meaning 'track' or 'course', related to 'tread'; originally a 'path' or 'course of action', the sense shifting to a regular occupation and then to commerce.
What can TRADE teach us?
Every trade is a small act of trust: you let go of what you have, betting the other side will too.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.