Synonyms of the word

trade

• n. (uncountable) Buying and selling of goods and services on a market.
• n. (countable) A particular instance of buying or selling.
• n. (countable) An instance of bartering items in exchange for one another.
• n. (countable) Those who perform a particular kind of skilled work.
• n. (countable) Those engaged in an industry or group of related industries.
• n. (countable) The skilled practice of a practical occupation.
• n. (countable or uncountable) An occupation in the secondary sector; as opposed to an agricultural, professional…
• n. (uncountable, Britain) The business given to a commercial establishment by its customers.
• n. (chiefly in the plural) Steady winds blowing from east to west above and below the equator.
• n. (only as plural) A publication intended for participants in an industry or related group of industries.
• n. (uncountable, LGBT, slang) A brief sexual encounter.
• n. (obsolete, uncountable) Instruments of any occupation.
• n. (mining) Refuse or rubbish from a mine.
• n. (obsolete) A track or trail; a way; a path; passage.
• n. (obsolete) Course; custom; practice; occupation.
• v. (intransitive) To engage in trade.
• v. (intransitive) To be traded at a certain price or under certain conditions.
• v. (transitive) To give (something) in exchange for.
• v. (horticulture, transitive or intransitive) To give someone a plant and receive a different one in return.
• v. (intransitive or transitive) To do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood.
• v. (intransitive) To have dealings; to be concerned or associated (with).

barter

• n. an equal exchange.
• v. exchange goods or services without involving money.

business

• n. (countable) A specific commercial enterprise or establishment.
• n. (countable) A person's occupation, work, or trade.
• n. (uncountable) Commercial, industrial, or professional activity.
• n. (uncountable) The volume or amount of commercial trade.
• n. (uncountable) One's dealings; patronage.
• n. (uncountable) Private commercial interests taken collectively.
• n. (uncountable) The management of commercial enterprises, or the study of such management.
• n. (countable) A particular situation or activity.
• n. (countable) An objective or a matter needing to be dealt with.
• n. (uncountable) Something involving one personally.
• n. (uncountable, parliamentary procedure) Matters that come before a body for deliberation or action.
• n. (travel, uncountable) Business class, the class of seating provided by airlines between first class and…
• n. (acting) Action carried out with a prop or piece of clothing, usually away from the focus of the scene.
• n. (countable, rare) The collective noun for a group of ferrets.
• n. (uncountable, slang, Britain) Something very good; top quality. (possibly from "the bee's knees").
• n. (slang, uncountable) Excrement, particularly that of a non-human animal.
• adj. Of, to, pertaining to or utilized for purposes of conducting trade, commerce, governance, advocacy or…
• adj. Professional, businesslike, having concern for good business practice.
• adj. Supporting business, conducive to the conduct of business.

change

• v. (intransitive) To become something different.
• v. (transitive, ergative) To make something into something different.
• v. (transitive) To replace.
• v. (intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
• v. (intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.).
• v. (archaic) To exchange.
• v. (transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).
• n. (countable) The process of becoming different.
• n. (uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
• n. (countable) A replacement, e.g. a change of clothes.
• n. (uncountable) Money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item.
• n. (uncountable) Coins (as opposed to paper money).
• n. (countable) A transfer between vehicles.
• n. (baseball) A change-up pitch.
• n. (campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
• n. (dated) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
• n. (Scotland, dated) A public house; an alehouse.

class

• n. (countable) A group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes.
• n. (countable) A social grouping, based on job, wealth, etc. In Britain, society is commonly split into three…
• n. (uncountable) The division of society into classes.
• n. (uncountable) Admirable behavior; elegance.
• n. (countable and uncountable) A group of students in a regularly scheduled meeting with a teacher.
• n. A series of classes covering a single subject.
• n. (countable) A group of students who commenced or completed their education during a particular year. A…
• n. (countable) A category of seats in an airplane, train or other means of mass transportation.
• n. (taxonomy, countable) A rank in the classification of organisms, below phylum and above order; a taxon…
• n. Best of its kind.
• n. (mathematics) A collection of sets definable by a shared property.
• n. (military) A group of people subject to be conscripted in the same military draft, or more narrowly those…
• n. (object-oriented programming) A set of objects having the same behavior (but typically differing in state),…
• n. One of the sections into which a Methodist church or congregation is divided, supervised by a class leader.
• v. (transitive) To assign to a class; to classify.
• v. (intransitive) To be grouped or classed.
• v. (transitive) To divide into classes, as students; to form into, or place in, a class or classes.
• adj. (Ireland, Britain, slang) great; fabulous.

commerce

• n. (business) The exchange or buying and selling of commodities; especially the exchange of merchandise,…
• n. Social intercourse; the dealings of one person or class in society with another; familiarity.
• n. (obsolete) Sexual intercourse.
• n. A 19th-century French card game in which the cards are subject to exchange, barter, or trade.
• v. (dated) To carry on trade; to traffic.
• v. (dated) To hold intercourse; to commune.

commercialism

• n. The practices, methods, aims, and spirit of commerce or business.
• n. A tendency to value profit over everything else.

craft

• n. (obsolete) Strength; power; might.
• n. (uncountable) Skill in one's work.
• n. (uncountable) Ability; dexterity; skill, especially skill in making plans and carrying them into execution;…
• n. (uncountable) Cunning, art, skill, or dexterity applied to bad purposes; artifice; guile; subtlety; shrewdness…
• n. (obsolete) A device; a means; an art; art in general.
• n. (countable, plural: crafts) The skilled practice of a practical occupation.
• n. The members of a trade collectively; guild.
• n. (nautical, whaling) Implements used in catching fish, such as net, line, or hook. Modern use primarily…
• n. (nautical) Boats, especially of smaller size than ships. Historically primarily applied to vessels engaged…
• n. (figuratively) A woman.
• n. (nautical, British Royal Navy) Those vessels attendant on a fleet, such as cutters, schooners, and gun-boats,…
• n. (countable, plural: craft) A vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer space.
• n. (countable, plural: crafts) A particular kind of skilled work.
• v. To make by hand and with much skill.
• v. To construct, develop something (like a skilled craftsman): "state crafting", "crafting global policing".
• v. (video games) to combine multiple items to form a new item.

deal

• n. (obsolete) A division, a portion, a share.
• n. (often followed by of) An indefinite quantity or amount; a lot (now usually qualified by great or good).
• v. (transitive) To distribute among a number of recipients, to give out as one’s portion or share.
• v. (transitive) To administer or give out, as in small portions.
• v. To distribute cards to the players in a game.
• v. (baseball) To pitch.
• v. (intransitive) To have dealings or business.
• v. (intransitive) To conduct oneself, to behave.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To take action; to act.
• v. (intransitive) To trade professionally (followed by in).
• v. (transitive) To sell, especially to sell illicit drugs.
• v. (intransitive) To be concerned with.
• v. (intransitive) To handle, to manage, to cope.
• n. (archaic in general sense) An act of dealing or sharing.
• n. The distribution of cards to players; a player's turn for this.
• n. A particular instance of buying or selling, a transaction.
• n. Specifically, a transaction offered which is financially beneficial; a bargain.
• n. An agreement between parties; an arrangement.
• n. (informal) A situation, occasion, or event.
• n. (informal) A thing, an unspecified or unidentified object.
• n. (uncountable) Wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir).
• n. (countable) A plank of softwood (fir or pine board).
• n. (countable, archaic) A wooden board or plank, usually between 12 or 14 feet in length, traded as a commodity…
• adj. Made of deal.

dealing

• v. present participle of deal.
• n. (obsolete, now only plural) A business transaction.

dealings

• n. relations with others.
• n. business transactions.

exchange

• n. An act of exchanging or trading.
• n. A place for conducting trading.
• n. A telephone exchange.
• n. (telephony, US only?) The fourth through sixth digits of a ten-digit phone number (the first three before…
• n. A conversation.
• n. (chess) The loss of one piece and associated capture of another.
• n. (obsolete) The thing given or received in return; especially, a publication exchanged for another.
• n. (biochemistry) The transfer of substances or elements like gas, amino-acids, ions etc. sometimes through…
• v. (transitive) To trade or barter.
• v. (transitive) To replace with, as a substitute.

interchange

• n. An act of interchanging.
• n. A highway junction in which traffic may change from one road to another without crossing a stream of traffic.
• n. (rail transport) A connection between two or more lines, services or modes of transport; a station at…
• v. (transitive) to switch (each of two things).
• v. (transitive) to mutually give and receive (something); to exchange.
• v. (intransitive) to swap or change places.
• v. (transitive) to alternate; to intermingle or vary.

job

• n. A task.
• n. An economic role for which a person is paid.
• n. (in noun compounds) Plastic surgery.
• n. (computing) A task, or series of tasks, carried out in batch mode (especially on a mainframe computer).
• n. A sudden thrust or stab; a jab.
• n. A public transaction done for private profit; something performed ostensibly as a part of official duty,…
• n. Any affair or event which affects one, whether fortunately or unfortunately.
• n. A thing (often used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall).
• v. (intransitive) To do odd jobs or occasional work for hire.
• v. (intransitive) To work as a jobber.
• v. (intransitive, professional wrestling slang) To take the loss.
• v. (transitive, trading) To buy and sell for profit, as securities; to speculate in.
• v. (transitive, often with out) To subcontract a project or delivery in small portions to a number of contractors.
• v. (intransitive) To seek private gain under pretence of public service; to turn public matters to private…
• v. To strike or stab with a pointed instrument.
• v. To thrust in, as a pointed instrument.
• v. To hire or let in periods of service.

line

• n. A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen;…
• n. A rope, cord, string, or thread, of any thickness.
• n. A hose or pipe, of any size.
• n. Direction, path.
• n. The wire connecting one telegraphic station with another, a telephone or internet cable between two points:…
• n. A letter, a written form of communication.
• n. A connected series of public conveyances, as a roadbed or railway track; and hence, an established arrangement…
• n. (military) A trench or rampart, or the non-physical demarcation of the extent of the territory occupied…
• n. The exterior limit of a figure or territory: a boundary, contour, or outline; a demarcation.
• n. A long tape or ribbon marked with units for measuring; a tape measure.
• n. (obsolete) A measuring line or cord.
• n. That which was measured by a line, such as a field or any piece of land set apart; hence, allotted place…
• n. A threadlike crease or wrinkle marking the face, hand, or body; hence, a characteristic mark.
• n. Lineament; feature; figure (of one's body).
• n. A more-or-less straight sequence of people, objects, etc., either arranged as a queue or column and often…
• n. (military) The regular infantry of an army, as distinguished from militia, guards, volunteer corps, cavalry,…
• n. A series or succession of ancestors or descendants of a given person; a family or race; compare lineage.
• n. A small amount of text. Specifically.
• n. Course of conduct, thought, occupation, or policy; method of argument; department of industry, trade,…
• n. The official, stated position (or set of positions) of an individual or group, particularly a political…
• n. The products or services sold by a business, or by extension, the business itself.
• n. (stock exchange) A number of shares taken by a jobber.
• n. A measure of length.
• n. (historical) A maxwell, a unit of magnetic flux.
• n. (baseball, slang, 1800s, with "the") The batter’s box.
• n. (fencing, ‘line of engagement’) The position in which the fencers hold their swords.
• n. (engineering) Proper relative position or adjustment (of parts, not as to design or proportion, but with…
• n. A small portion or serving (of a powdery illegal drug).
• n. (obsolete) Instruction; doctrine.
• n. (genetics) Population of cells derived from a single cell and containing the same genetic makeup.
• n. (perfusion line) a set composed of a spike, a drip chamber, a clamp, a Y-injection site, a three-way stopcock…
• n. (ice hockey) A group of forwards that play together.
• v. (transitive) To place (objects) into a line (usually used with "up"); to form into a line; to align.
• v. (transitive) To place persons or things along the side of for security or defense; to strengthen by adding;…
• v. To form a line along.
• v. (transitive) To mark with a line or lines, to cover with lines.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To represent by lines; to delineate; to portray.
• v. (transitive) To read or repeat line by line.
• v. (intransitive, ‘line up’) To form or enter into a line.
• v. (intransitive, baseball) To hit a line drive; to hit a line drive which is caught for an out. Compare…
• v. To track (wild bees) to their nest by following their line of flight.
• n. (obsolete) Flax; linen, particularly the longer fiber of flax.
• v. (transitive) To cover the inner surface of (something), originally especially with linen.
• v. To reinforce (the back of a book) with glue and glued scrap material such as fabric or paper.
• v. (transitive) To fill or supply (something), as a purse with money.
• v. (transitive, now rare, of a dog) to copulate with, to impregnate.

mercantilism

• n. (historical, economics) The theory that a nation must always have a positive balance of trade, in the…
• n. (economics) The theory that holds that the prosperity of a nation depends upon its supply of capital,…

merchandise

• n. (uncountable) Commodities offered for sale.
• n. (countable) A commodity offered for sale; an article of commerce; a kind of merchandise.
• n. (uncountable) The act or business of trading; trade; traffic.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To engage in trade; to carry on commerce.
• v. (intransitive) To engage in in-store promotion of the sale of goods, as by display and arrangement of…
• v. (transitive, archaic) To engage in the trade of.
• v. (transitive) To engage in in-store promotion of the sale of.
• v. (transitive) To promote as if for sale.

occupation

• n. An activity or task with which one occupies oneself; usually specifically the productive activity, service,…
• n. The act, process or state of possessing a place.
• n. The control of a country or region by a hostile army.

patronage

• n. The act of providing approval and support; backing; championship.
• n. Customers collectively; clientele; business.
• n. A communication that indicates lack of respect by patronizing the recipient; condescension; disdain.
• n. (politics) Granting favours or giving contracts or making appointments to office in return for political…
• n. Guardianship, as of a saint; tutelary care.
• n. The right of nomination to political office.
• n. (Britain, law) The right of presentation to church or ecclesiastical benefice; advowson.
• v. (transitive) To support by being a patron of.
• v. (transitive) To be a regular customer or client of; to patronize; to patronise; to support; to keep going.

sell

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To transfer goods or provide services in exchange for money.
• v. (ergative) To be sold.
• v. To promote a product or service.
• v. To promote a particular viewpoint.
• v. (slang) To trick, cheat, or manipulate someone.
• v. (professional wrestling, slang) To pretend that an opponent's blows or maneuvers are causing legitimate…
• n. An act of selling.
• n. An easy task.
• n. (colloquial, dated) An imposition, a cheat; a hoax.
• n. (obsolete) A seat or stool.
• n. (archaic) A saddle.
• n. (regional, obsolete) A rope (usually for tying up cattle, but can also mean any sort of rope).

swap

• v. To exchange or give (something) in an exchange (for something else).
• v. (obsolete) To strike, hit.
• v. (obsolete) To fall or descend; to rush hastily or violently.
• v. (obsolete) To beat the air, or ply the wings, with a sweeping motion or noise; to flap.
• n. An exchange of two comparable things.
• n. (finance) A financial derivative in which two parties agree to exchange one stream of cashflow against…
• n. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) A blow; a stroke.
• n. (computing, informal, uncountable) Space available in a swap file for use as auxiliary memory.

switch

• n. A device to turn electric current on and off or direct its flow.
• n. A change.
• n. (rail transport, US) A movable section of railroad track which allows the train to be directed down one…
• n. A slender woody plant stem used as a whip; a thin, flexible rod, associated with corporal punishment in…
• n. (computer science) A command line notation allowing specification of optional behavior.
• n. (computing, programming) A programming construct that takes different actions depending on the value of…
• n. (computing, networking) A networking device connecting multiple wires, allowing them to communicate simultaneously,…
• n. (telecommunications) A system of specialized relays, computer hardware, or other equipment which allows…
• n. (BDSM) One who is willing to take either a sadistic or a masochistic role.
• n. A separate mass or tress of hair, or of some substance (such as jute) made to resemble hair, formerly…
• v. (transitive) To exchange.
• v. (transitive) To change (something) to the specified state using a switch.
• v. (transitive) To whip or hit with a switch.
• v. (intransitive) To change places, tasks, etc.
• v. (slang, intransitive) To get angry suddenly; to quickly or unreasonably become enraged.
• v. To swing or whisk.
• v. To be swung or whisked.
• v. To trim.
• v. To turn from one railway track to another; to transfer by a switch; generally with off, from, etc.
• v. (ecclesiastical) To shift to another circuit.
• adj. (snowboarding) riding with the front and back feet swapped round compared to one's normal position.

swop

• n. Alternative spelling of swap.
• v. Alternative spelling of swap.
• n. A fusion of swing and hip-hop dance styles.

trade

• n. (uncountable) Buying and selling of goods and services on a market.
• n. (countable) A particular instance of buying or selling.
• n. (countable) An instance of bartering items in exchange for one another.
• n. (countable) Those who perform a particular kind of skilled work.
• n. (countable) Those engaged in an industry or group of related industries.
• n. (countable) The skilled practice of a practical occupation.
• n. (countable or uncountable) An occupation in the secondary sector; as opposed to an agricultural, professional…
• n. (uncountable, Britain) The business given to a commercial establishment by its customers.
• n. (chiefly in the plural) Steady winds blowing from east to west above and below the equator.
• n. (only as plural) A publication intended for participants in an industry or related group of industries.
• n. (uncountable, LGBT, slang) A brief sexual encounter.
• n. (obsolete, uncountable) Instruments of any occupation.
• n. (mining) Refuse or rubbish from a mine.
• n. (obsolete) A track or trail; a way; a path; passage.
• n. (obsolete) Course; custom; practice; occupation.
• v. (intransitive) To engage in trade.
• v. (intransitive) To be traded at a certain price or under certain conditions.
• v. (transitive) To give (something) in exchange for.
• v. (horticulture, transitive or intransitive) To give someone a plant and receive a different one in return.
• v. (intransitive or transitive) To do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood.
• v. (intransitive) To have dealings; to be concerned or associated (with).

transact

• v. (transitive) To do, carry through, conduct or perform some action.
• v. (transitive) To carry over, hand over or transfer something.
• v. (intransitive) To conduct business.
• v. To exchange or trade, as of ideas, money, goods, etc.

transaction

• n. The act of conducting or carrying out (business, negotiations, plans).
• n. A deal or business agreement.
• n. An exchange or trade, as of ideas, money, goods, etc.
• n. (finance) The transfer of funds into, out of, or from an account.
• n. (computing) An atomic operation; a message, data modification, or other procedure that is guaranteed to…
• n. (especially in plural) A record of the proceedings of a learned society.