📒 the activity of buying and selling or of exchanging goods or services between people or countries
- international/foreign/global/world trade
- trade in something the international trade in oil
- the illegal trade in wildlife
📒 a particular type of business
- the building/food/tourist trade
- in the… trade He works in the retail trade (= selling goods in shops/stores).
- the fur/book trade
📒 a particular area of business and the people or companies that are connected with it
- They offer discounts to the trade (= to people who are working in the same business).
- a trade magazine/journal
- Their company is respected and well known in the trade.
📒 the amount of goods or services that you sell
- Trade was very good last month.
- All around the pyramids, salespeople were doing a roaring trade in souvenirs.
- Shops have lost a day's trade.
📒 a job, especially one that involves working with your hands and that requires special training and skills
- by trade He was a carpenter by trade.
- When she leaves school, she wants to learn a trade.
- She was surrounded by the tools of her trade (= everything she needs to do her job).
📒 to sell a lot of something very quickly
- The ice-cream vendors were doing a roaring trade.
📒 a person who can do many different types of work, but who perhaps does not do them very well
📒 to look for customers, passengers, etc. in order to do business
- taxis plying for trade outside the theatre
📒 to do your work or business
- This is the restaurant where he plied his trade as a cook.
- Drug dealers openly plied their trade in front of children.
📒 the clever ways of doing things, known and used by people who do a particular job or activity