trading
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɹeɪdɪŋ/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -eɪdɪŋ
Adjective
trading (comparative more trading, superlative most trading)
- Carrying on trade or commerce; engaged in trade.
- a trading company
- (obsolete, rare) Frequented by traders.
- (Can we date this quote?) John Milton
- they on the trading flood
- (Can we date this quote?) John Milton
- (obsolete) venal; corrupt; jobbing
- a trading politician
Noun
trading (countable and uncountable, plural tradings)
- The carrying on of trade.
- Bible, Revelation
- But thy riches and thy tradings, thy merchandise, and they who trade thy traffic, shall fall into the heart of the seas […]
- Bible, Revelation
Derived terms
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for trading in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
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