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trade

 
/treɪd/ v [I/T] (BUY AND SELL)

Definition

to buy, sell, or exchange goods: [I] For centuries, Native Americans traded with European settlers. To trade is also to exchange something: [T] The children traded comics. [T] The two players traded insults and nearly came to blows. If you trade something in, such as a car, you give it as part of the payment for something new: [M] He recently traded in his Jeep for a red Mercedes.
(Definition of trade v (BUY AND SELL) from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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