Synonyms for trading
trad·ing

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1. trading

   A business is what one follows regularly; an occupation is what he happens at any time to be engaged in; trout-fishing may be one's occupation for a time, as a relief from business; business is ordinarily for profit, while the occupation may be a matter of learning, philanthropy, or religion. A profession implies scholarship; as, the learned professions. Pursuit is an occupation which one follows with ardor. An avocation is what calls one away from other work; a vocation or calling, that to which one is called by some special fitness or sense of duty; thus, we speak of the gospel ministry as a vocation or calling, rather than a business. Trade or trading is, in general, the exchanging of one thing for another; in the special sense, a trade is an occupation involving manual training and skilled labor; as, the ancient Jews held that every boy should learn a trade. A transaction is a single action, whether in business, diplomacy, or otherwise; affair has a similar, but lighter meaning; as, this little affair; an important transaction. The plural affairs has a distinctive meaning, including all activities where men deal with one another on any considerable scale; as, a man of affairs. A job is a piece of work viewed as a single undertaking, and ordinarily paid for as such. Trade and commerce may be used as equivalents, but trade is capable of a more limited application; we speak of the trade of a village, the commerce of a nation. Barter is the direct exchange of commodities; business, trade, and commerce are chiefly transacted by means of money, bills of exchange, etc. Business, occupation, etc., may be what one does independently; employment may be in the service of another. Work is any application of energy to secure a result, or the result thus secured; thus, we speak of the work of God. Art in the industrial sense is a system of rules and accepted methods for the accomplishment of some practical result; as, the art of printing; collectively, the arts. A craft is some occupation requiring technical skill or manual dexterity, or the persons, collectively, engaged in its exercise; as, the weaver's craft.

   Synonyms:
   affair, art, avocation, barter, business, calling, commerce, concern, craft, duty, employment, handicraft, job, occupation, profession, trade, traffic, transaction, vocation, work

   Preposition:
   The business of a druggist; in business with his father; doing business for his father; have you business with me? business in New York; business about, concerning, or in regard to certain property.

Princeton's WordNet

1. tradingnoun

   buying or selling securities or commodities

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1. • Commerce

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1. tradingadjective

   Synonyms:
   commercial, mercantile

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1. tradingadjective

   Synonyms:
   commercial, mercantile, venal, corrupt, jobbing

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1. List of paraphrases for "trading":

   trade, commercial, commerce, transactions, business, exchange, transaction, trafficking, marketing, negotiation, comercial, circulation, turnover, exchanges, negotiating, bargaining, comercio, operating, sale, shopping

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How to use trading in a sentence?

1. Matt Smith:

   The compounding effect from all these refinery incidents this weekend should mean a relatively more supportive trading environment for product markets to start the week.

2. Frederick Jiang:

   If you look at the Chinese market, it's a bipolar market with the high growth A-shares trading at very expensive valuations and the H-shares trading below 10. It's probably the cheapest major market in the world.

3. Justin Lederer:

   There's a lot of concern about commodities and the Fed, but everyone's got their eye on how global markets are trading first.

4. Raphie Hayat:

   It has much higher debt, trade tensions with a major trading partner and its growth has been steadily slowing down for a number of years, which gives a weak starting point to face such a crisis.

5. Kazumasa Hironaka:

   We judged that the current asset size is suitable to maintain the link between the ETFs' price and index, considering the balance with trading volume of futures.