trade

/treɪd/ verb

Definition

BUY AND SELL [I] › to buy and sell goods or services, especially between countries: This will increase costs for companies trading with Asia.

EXCHANGE [T] mainly US › to give something to someone and receive something else in exchange: He traded his guitar for a leather jacket.

trading noun [U]

(Definition of trade verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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