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trade magazine

trade magazine

3 3.9
A magazine for people who work in a certain industry that gives news and advice
  • noun
  • /treɪd ˈmæɡəˌzin/
translation icon : revista especializada
  • The trade magazine provides insights into the latest trends in the fashion industry.
  • trade magazine for the industry
  • trade magazine for business

Examples

  • Other industry sources: trade magazines, websites, tradeshows, etc. tend to have information on manufacturing.

    Blog text (18)
  • Write about your expertise and get articles published in trade magazines and newspapers.

    Blog text (6)
  • There was this incredible trade magazine in the US called Nails.

  • Surgery News is a trade magazine with a complicated structure.

    Blog text (25)
  • The average American home, Harry had read in a trade magazine, no longer contained a bowling ball.

    Fiction book (2002)
  • According to an insurance industry trade magazine, "the earth shook" after Proposition 103 was approved.

    Academic text (1991)
  • Her work has appeared in more than 25 consumer, business, and trade magazines, including BusinessWeek and Woman's Day.

    Academic text (2011)
  • Contact editors of trade magazines and custom publications to see if they need to assign stories on their editorial calendar.

    Academic text (2008)
  • He's published more than 1,200 articles in consumer and trade magazines, online and in encyclopedias.

    Academic text (2011)
  • Thus, it may be useful to expand the RFA's procedures for gathering comments to ensure that the CCA's opposition to proposed rulemakings is also publicized in trade magazines that small businesses are more likely to read.

    Academic text (1995)

Synonyms

magazine
vstrade magazine
1.0

A printed or online set of pages that comes out regularly with articles and pictures about a subject

targets professionals in one industry with industry news and trends
mag
vstrade magazine
  • Informal
44 7.9

A thin printed book with pictures and short articles about one topic

is the formal industry publication aimed at professionals

How Specialized

journal
580 4.2
trade magazine
3 3.9
broadsheet
  • Literature
3 4.5
magazine
1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

trade + magazine

The meaning of 'trade magazine' is directly compositional: 'trade' (industry) + 'magazine' (periodical publication) yields a publication for a particular industry. This noun+noun compound follows common English and cross‑linguistic patterns, so a B1 learner who knows both words should readily infer the meaning.

Etymology

Trade magazine comes from old papers made for one kind of work; trade means a job or business and magazine means a regular publication. These papers shared news, tools and ads for people in that job, so today trade magazine means 'a magazine for people in a particular industry'.