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trade
verb (EXCHANGE) /treɪd/Definition
› [T] to exchange something, or to stop using or doing something and start using or doing something else instead: The children traded comics. [+ two objects] I'll trade you some of my chocolate for some of your ice cream. I wouldn't trade you for the world (= I do not want a different partner). → See also tradesth inReplacing and exchanging › [T] If people trade statements of a particular type, they say or tell them to each other: We sat around the dinner table, trading stories. The two politicians didn't really discuss the issues, they just traded insults.Ways of talking
(Definition of trade verb (EXCHANGE) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- alternatively adverb
- bargain sth away phrasal verb
- behalf noun
- change over phrasal verb
- compensation noun (EXCHANGE)
- countermand verb
- delegate noun
- pinch-hit verb
- pre-empt verb
- proxy noun
- refill noun
- refill verb
- spare noun
- substitute noun
- substitute verb
- succeed verb (FOLLOW)
- succession noun
- supersede verb
- supplant verb
- swap verb
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