trade good
2
3.0
- noun
- /treɪd ɡʊd/
:
bien comercial
- Farmers often exchange their crops for trade goods at the local market.
- European trade goods
- food and trade goods
- stock of trade goods
People came together once or twice a year to trade goods, find their spouses.
- People came together once or twice a year to trade goods, find their spouses.
Examples
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The all-important storehouse, depot for the colony's irreplaceable food and trade goods, was a square-timbered post-and-beam structure built by expert carpenters.
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Needles, scissors, and thimbles were highly prized trade goods.
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I was seeking outlets for our trade goods.
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In addition, the trade goods acceptable to those still farming in the forest had changed.
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There were ways other than hunting to procure European trade goods.
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When the Hagahai came to Mount Hagen, they were interested in trade goods in addition to medical treatment.
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At regular intervals, each caravan member received either an allowance of trade goods or a ration of food.
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In their six-week voyage up the Congo River (see Map 1), expedition members were given trade goods to purchase food.
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Excavation of his ship La Belle off Galveston, Texas, has yielded trade goods such as bells.
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The company exports a variety of trade goods, including textiles and electronics.
Synonyms
161
3.9
A raw material like wheat or oil that people buy and sell in large amounts
22
7.1
Things made and sold, often in large amounts
How Processed
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly built from the constituents: 'trade' (buying and selling) + 'good' (a product), so a learner who knows both words can infer it refers to a product involved in trade — often sold in bulk or between businesses. This compositional pattern is cross‑linguistically common and follows standard noun–noun semantics, making the expression transparent to a B1 learner.
Etymology
The noun trade good comes from the image of merchants loading crates on a ship or caravan to sell to other businesses. The part trade means buying and selling and good means an item, so the phrase now means 'a raw material or product sold in large amounts to other businesses'.