trade

/treɪd/ n [C/U] (BUYING AND SELLING)

Definition

› the activity of buying and selling goods and services esp. between countries: [U] foreign trade [U] a trade agreement › A trade is the act of exchanging one thing for another.

(Definition of trade n (BUYING AND SELLING) from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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