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A track; a trail; a way; a path; also, passage; travel;
resort. |
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Course; custom; practice; occupation; employment. |
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Business of any kind; matter of mutual consideration;
affair; dealing. |
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Specifically: The act or business of exchanging commodities
by barter, or by buying and selling for money; commerce; traffic;
barter. |
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The business which a person has learned, and which he
engages in, for procuring subsistence, or for profit; occupation;
especially, mechanical employment as distinguished from the liberal
arts, the learned professions, and agriculture; as, we speak of the
trade of a smith, of a carpenter, or mason, but not now of the trade of
a farmer, or a lawyer, or a physician. |
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Instruments of any occupation. |
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A company of men engaged in the same occupation; thus,
booksellers and publishers speak of the customs of the trade, and are
collectively designated as the trade. |
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The trade winds. |
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Refuse or rubbish from a mine. |
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To barter, or to buy and sell; to be engaged in the
exchange, purchase, or sale of goods, wares, merchandise, or anything
else; to traffic; to bargain; to carry on commerce as a business. |
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To buy and sell or exchange property in a single
instance. |
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To have dealings; to be concerned or associated; --
usually followed by with. |
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To sell or exchange in commerce; to barter. |
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imp. of Tread. |