# trading

Pronunciation: say "TRAY-ding" /ˈtɹeɪdɪŋ/

## Noun

1. The buying and selling of stocks, currencies, commodities, and other assets on a market or exchange.
   - Simple: The buying and selling of shares, foreign money, and other investments on a market.
   - _Shares of the airline jumped 12 percent in early trading on Monday._
   - _Currency trading volumes surged after the central bank's surprise announcement._
4. The activity of buying and selling goods or services as an ongoing business.
   - Simple: The regular buying and selling of goods or services as a business.
   - _Trading in spices made the port city enormously wealthy._
   - _Trading with coastal towns brought salt and iron to the mountain villages._

## Verb

2. Present participle of trade. — present participle and gerund of trade
   - Simple: Present participle of trade. Use it when the buying or swapping is in progress, or as the activity's name.
   - _The firm is trading heavily in foreign currencies this quarter._
   - _The kids spent the afternoon on the porch trading baseball cards with each other._

## Adjective

3. Of a person, company or country, doing business by buying and selling, as in a trading company or a trading nation.
   - Simple: Involved in buying and selling as a business.
   - _The trading houses of Amsterdam dominated European commerce for decades._
   - _Singapore grew into one of the world's busiest trading hubs._

## Adjective

5. Regularly frequented by traders and merchants. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: Visited often by people who buy and sell goods.
6. Venal or corrupt; ready to misuse public office or trust for private gain. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: Willing to take bribes and act dishonestly.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/trading (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).