Meaning

noun the commercial exchange (buying and selling on domestic or international markets) of goods and services

noun the skilled practice of a practical occupation

noun the business given to a commercial establishment by its customers

originFrom Middle English trade (“path, course of conduct”), introduced into English by Hanseatic merchants, from Middle Low German trade (“track, course”), from Old Saxon trada (“spoor, track”), from Proto-West Germanic *tradu, from Proto-Germanic *tradō (“track, way”), and cognate with Old English tredan (“to tread”); ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dreh₂- (“to tread, walk, step, run”). Cognate…

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