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trading

trading

479 2.7
Buying and selling things like stocks or currencies to make money
  • noun
  • /ˈtreɪdɪŋ/
  • Specialized
translation icon : negociación
  • Many investors prefer day trading to hold stocks for long periods.
  • stock trading
  • a trading partner
  • a trading system

That's just summer trading from from April to now.

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Examples

  • Two councils have set up trading companies, and many more have expressed interest in the concept.

    Academic text (2011)
  • I think there is a difference in trading in shares.

  • No stock trading, no stock buying, no stock selling.

  • It's really meant for short term trading, not long term investing.

  • So if you look at the history of trading, we're talking Silk Roads here.

  • Navaho men were walking down the road toward the trading post, some six miles away.

    Fiction book (1991)
  • Where your shares are trading, but they're only available for trading among institutions.

  • Economically, it has become the world's fourteenth-largest trading nation and seventh-largest foreign investor.

    Academic text (1999)
  • By 1729, the English also began to entreat the Choctaws as potential trading partners and allies.

    Academic text (1999)
  • The rapid trading of goods and services has increased in the digital market.

Synonyms

commerce
vstrading
121 2.7

Buying and selling goods and services on a large scale

focuses specifically on financial market buying and selling of securities
trading operations
vstrading
  • Specialized
1 4.4

Activities that handle and record buying and selling of investments for a company

is broader market buying and selling of securities and commodities

Compounds

Buying or selling company shares using secret information not available to the public

trading floor
  • Specialized
7 4.6

A large open area in a stock or commodity market where traders buy and sell

7 3.7

A small store in a remote place where people buy or sell goods

4 2.4

A small card with a picture that people collect and swap

horse trading
  • Informal
3 5.2

Tough negotiation where both sides give up things to reach a deal

bond trading
  • Specialized
1 4.5

Buying and selling bonds on an exchange or through a broker

program trading
  • Specialized
1 6.9

A way of buying and selling large amounts of stocks using computer programs

trading stamp
  • Archaic
1 5.4

A small paper token shops give customers to collect and exchange for goods

trading operations
  • Specialized
1 4.4

Activities that handle and record buying and selling of investments for a company

bond-trading activity
  • Specialized
6.8

Buying and selling bonds, usually by brokers on a market

Buying and selling horses by careful bargaining

Rules a government makes about buying and selling goods with other countries

trading card
  • Jargon
3.5

A digital card people collect, buy, and use in online games

How Active

trading
  • Specialized
479 2.7
selling
9 1.0

Surface Forms

trading singular
tradings plural

Morphology

trading = trade (transparent) = trade + ing

A regular -ing nominalization of the verb 'trade' meaning the activity of buying and selling is directly derivable by learners.

Etymology

Trading comes from trade, which originally meant a 'path' or 'track' and is related to tread ('to step'). Imagine merchants walking the same paths to move goods — that image helps explain why trade came to mean 'buying and selling', so trading is the activity of doing that.