Definition: the skilled practice of a practical occupation
Usage: he learned his trade as an apprentice
Similar words: business, job, line, line of work, occupation
Definition: the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
Usage: he's not in my line of business
Synonyms: trade
Definition: the commercial exchange (buying and selling on domestic or international markets) of goods and services
Usage: Venice was an important center of trade with the East; they are accused of conspiring to constrain trade
Similar words: commerce, commercialism, mercantilism
Definition: transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services)
Definition: the business given to a commercial establishment by its customers
Usage: even before noon there was a considerable patronage
Similar words: business
Definition: the volume of commercial activity
Usage: business is good today; show me where the business was today
Synonyms: trade, swop, swap, barter
Definition: an equal exchange
Usage: we had no money so we had to live by barter
Similar words: exchange, interchange
Definition: reciprocal transfer of equivalent sums of money (especially the currencies of different countries)
Usage: he earns his living from the interchange of currency
Synonyms: trade, business deal, deal
Definition: a particular instance of buying or selling
Usage: it was a package deal; I had no further trade with him; he's a master of the business deal
Similar words: transaction, dealing, dealings
Definition: the act of transacting within or between groups (as carrying on commercial activities)
Usage: no transactions are possible without him; he has always been honest is his dealings with me
Definition: people who perform a particular kind of skilled work
Usage: he represented the craft of brewers; as they say in the trade
Similar words: social class, socio-economic class, class, stratum
Definition: people having the same social, economic, or educational status
Usage: the working class; an emerging professional class
Synonyms: trade, trade wind
Definition: steady winds blowing from east to west above and below the equator
Usage: they rode the trade winds going west
Similar words: prevailing wind
Definition: the predominant wind direction
Usage: the prevailing wind is from the southwest
Definition: do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood
Usage: She deals in gold; The brothers sell shoes
Synonyms: trade, switch, swop, swap
Definition: exchange or give (something) in exchange for
Similar words: change, interchange, exchange
Definition: give to, and receive from, one another
Usage: Would you change places with me?; We have been exchanging letters for a year
Definition: turn in as payment or part payment for a purchase
Usage: trade in an old car for a new one
Similar words: change, interchange, exchange
Definition: give to, and receive from, one another
Usage: Would you change places with me?; We have been exchanging letters for a year
Synonyms: trade
Definition: be traded at a certain price or under certain conditions
Usage: The stock traded around $20 a share
Similar words: sell
Definition: be sold at a certain price or in a certain way
Usage: These books sell like hot cakes