Crossword clues for trading
trading
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Trade \Trade\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Traded; p. pr. & vb. n. Trading.]
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To barter, or to buy and sell; to be engaged in the exchange, purchase, or sale of goods, wares, merchandise, or anything else; to traffic; to bargain; to carry on commerce as a business.
A free port, where nations . . . resorted with their goods and traded.
--Arbuthnot. To buy and sell or exchange property in a single instance.
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To have dealings; to be concerned or associated; -- usually followed by with.
How did you dare to trade and traffic with Macbeth?
--Shak.
Trading \Trad"ing\, a.
Carrying on trade or commerce; engaged in trade; as, a trading company.
Frequented by traders. [R.] ``They on the trading flood.''
--Milton.Venal; corrupt; jobbing; as, a trading politician.
Wiktionary
1 Carrying on trade or commerce; engaged in trade. 2 (context obsolete rare English) Frequented by traders. 3 (context obsolete English) venal; corrupt; jobbing n. The carrying on of trade. v
(present participle of trade English)
WordNet
n. buying or selling securities or commodities
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "trading".
After a while I realised that men were trading off upon me, that a steady stream of new men was constantly arriving, presumably to replace the old as their reservoirs grew exhausted.
The finance department was lagging behind commercial banking but was ahead of trading.
USB would cut costs by offering early retirement and firing nonessential staff, up efficiency through increased computerization, create a merchant banking division, and expand its trading operations.
But, of course, when they turned off the pavement of Navajo Route 32 and jolted down the road past the old Crystal trading post and up the crooked tracks into the aspen grove where Barbone had built his hogan, they discovered that Hosteen Barbone was not at home.
The towns and trading classes were steadfast in loyalty, and the baronage was again driven, as it had been before, to depend on foreign mercenaries.
Seeing how badly he was wanting them, I worked him around to trading me galloglaiches three for one, then paid the hire of some bonnaghts he was not using just then and went on me way to the Kingdom of Ros Commain.
The best that one can say is that the brewery is basically still trading at a profit, and while it still has the services of Desmond Finch and the present brewmaster, it should go on doing so.
They encountered no further problems that day or night, and the next morning came upon the main road, the trading route from Waterdeep to Mirabar and passing Longsaddle on the way.
They were murdered, by off-world individuals trading with the Medusan natives in prohibited drugs.
Ned told him, accepted another sup of rum, and, feeling elated, went in search of Melia and the proceeds of his trading, which he had prudently hidden beneath some bushes at the edge of the track.
Faced with a de facto economic blockade on the part of their principal trading partner, the Morganites requested help from the federation, which sensibly ignored them.
Er Thom was trading on port at the time and placed the overbought handily, to his own profit and to mine.
When I was sixteen, Uncle Parand borrowed me from Mother to accompany him on coastal trading voyages.
If and when the Tahn were defeated, Pastour would have heavy-duty trading stock to strike his bargain for peace with the Emperor.
At Pacific Street bulkhead there was a trading schooner, the Pelorus, unloading copra, and Tamea spoke to the Kanaka mate in his own language.