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{ "term": "trade", "partOfSpeech": "noun", "ox3000": true, "cefr": "b1", "definitions": [ { "senseNumber": 1, "definition": "the activity of buying and selling or of exchanging goods or services between people or countries", "sensetop": "trade in somethingtrade between/with somebody/something", "labels": "(North American English)(British English)(US English)(British English)(North American English)", "cefr": "b1", "ox3000": true, "examples": [ { "text": "**international/foreign/global/world trade**" }, { "text": "the international trade in oil", "contextForm": "trade in something" }, { "text": "the illegal trade in wildlife" }, { "text": "the **arms/drugs trade**" }, { "text": "The Senate has approved a **trade agreement** with Latin American nations." }, { "text": "Trade between the two countries has increased.", "contextForm": "trade between/with somebody/something" }, { "text": "an international **trade barrier** to GM food" }, { "text": "Market prices and trade liberalization have increased prices." }, { "text": "trade negotiations/talks" }, { "text": "Public support for the current trade policy is declining." }, { "text": "a bilateral trade deal" }, { "text": "The US has restricted trade with India." }, { "text": "Several local companies took part in a trade mission to Spain." }, { "text": "Steps were taken to ban the trade in ivory." }, { "text": "The US was accused of employing unfair trade practices." }, { "text": "The countries were locked in a trade war, refusing to allow imports of each other's goods." }, { "text": "The five countries formed a regional trade bloc." }, { "text": "They already dominated the domestic trade in raw jute." }, { "text": "Trade between the Adriatic ports and their hinterland had grown." }, { "text": "attempts to curb the illicit trade in exotic species" }, { "text": "the boom and slump periods of a trade cycle" }, { "text": "the evil trade in drugs" } ], "topics": ["Money", "Shopping", "Politics"], "collocations": { "adjective": ["booming", "brisk", "burgeoning"], "verb + trade": ["conduct", "do", "engage in"], "trade + verb": ["boom", "expand", "flourish"], "trade + noun": ["balance", "figures", "performance"], "preposition": ["in a/the trade", "trade between", "trade in"] } }, { "senseNumber": 2, "definition": "a particular type of business", "sensetop": "in the… trade", "cefr": "b1", "ox3000": true, "examples": [ { "text": "the **building/food/tourist trade**" }, { "text": "He works in the **retail trade** *(= selling goods in shops/stores)*.", "contextForm": "in the… trade" }, { "text": "the fur/book trade" }, { "text": "She's in the wholesale fruit trade." }, { "text": "the area's dependence on the tourist trade" }, { "text": "Employment in the building trade is notoriously irregular." }, { "text": "He built up a trade in seeds, corn, and manure." } ], "collocations": { "adjective": ["booming", "brisk", "burgeoning"], "verb + trade": ["conduct", "do", "engage in"], "trade + verb": ["boom", "expand", "flourish"], "trade + noun": ["balance", "figures", "performance"], "preposition": ["in a/the trade", "trade between", "trade in"] } }, { "senseNumber": 3, "definition": "a particular area of business and the people or companies that are connected with it", "examples": [ { "text": "They offer discounts to the trade *(= to people who are working in the same business)*." }, { "text": "a **trade magazine/journal**" }, { "text": "Their company is respected and well known in the trade." }, { "text": "It's a trade association that represents all segments of the dairy industry." }, { "text": "The trade has/have called for fairer regulation." }, { "text": "The vase was bought by a trade buyer." }, { "text": "These flour sacks are known in the trade as ‘pockets’." }, { "text": "the trade body representing water companies" } ], "collocations": { "adjective": ["booming", "brisk", "burgeoning"], "verb + trade": ["conduct", "do", "engage in"], "trade + verb": ["boom", "expand", "flourish"], "trade + noun": ["balance", "figures", "performance"], "preposition": ["in a/the trade", "trade between", "trade in"] } }, { "senseNumber": 4, "definition": "the amount of goods or services that you sell", "cefr": "b1", "ox3000": true, "examples": [ { "text": "Trade was very good last month." }, { "text": "All around the pyramids, salespeople **were doing a roaring trade** in souvenirs." }, { "text": "Shops have lost a day's trade." }, { "text": "Stores are doing a brisk trade in wizard accessories and vampire kits." } ], "synonyms": "business", "collocations": { "adjective": ["booming", "brisk", "burgeoning"], "verb + trade": ["conduct", "do", "engage in"], "trade + verb": ["boom", "expand", "flourish"], "trade + noun": ["balance", "figures", "performance"], "preposition": ["in a/the trade", "trade between", "trade in"] } }, { "senseNumber": 5, "definition": "a job, especially one that involves working with your hands and that requires special training and skills", "sensetop": "by trade", "cefr": "b1", "ox3000": true, "examples": [ { "text": "He was a carpenter by trade.", "contextForm": "by trade" }, { "text": "When she leaves school, she wants to **learn a trade**." }, { "text": "She was surrounded by **the tools of her trade** *(= everything she needs to do her job)*." }, { "text": "If you've got a trade, you need never be out of work." }, { "text": "Dressmaking is a highly skilled trade." }, { "text": "the tools needed to carry on a trade" } ], "collocations": { "adjective": ["skilled", "building"], "verb + trade": ["learn", "carry on", "exercise"], "preposition": ["by trade"], "phrases": ["a jack of all trades", "the tricks of the trade"] } }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "to sell a lot of something very quickly", "labels": "(informal)", "examples": [ { "text": "The ice-cream vendors were doing a roaring trade." } ] }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "a person who can do many different types of work, but who perhaps does not do them very well", "examples": [] }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "to look for customers, passengers, etc. in order to do business", "labels": "(British English)", "examples": [ { "text": "taxis plying for trade outside the theatre" } ] }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "to do your work or business", "examples": [ { "text": "This is the restaurant where he plied his trade as a cook." }, { "text": "Drug dealers openly plied their trade in front of children." } ] }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "the clever ways of doing things, known and used by people who do a particular job or activity", "examples": [] } ], "pronunciations": { "uk": [ { "pronunciation": "/treɪd/", "audio": "tr/trade/trade__gb_1.mp3" } ], "us": [ { "pronunciation": "/treɪd/", "audio": "tr/trade/trade__us_1.mp3" } ] }, "wordOrigin": "late Middle English (as a noun): from Middle Low German, literally ‘track’, of West Germanic origin; related to tread. Early senses included ‘course, way of life’, which gave rise in the 16th cent. to ‘habitual practice of an occupation’, ‘skilled handicraft’. The current verb senses date from the late 16th cent." }