trade

/treɪd/ n [C/U] (JOB)

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› a job, esp. one that needs special skill and that involves working with your hands, or the type of work in which such skills are needed: [C] the building trades [U] He’s an auto mechanic/electrician by trade. › A trade is also any business: [C] the book/tourist trade

(Definition of trade n (JOB) from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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