the action of buying and selling goods and services

a move to ban all trade in ivory

a significant increase in foreign trade

a skilled manual occupation that requires special training

the fundamentals of the construction trade

his parents wanted him to learn a trade

he's a carpenter by trade

a trade wind

the north-east trades

buy and sell goods and services

middlemen trading in luxury goods

exchange (something) for something else, typically as a commercial transaction

they trade mud-shark livers for fish oil