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TRADE IN
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Turn in as payment or part payment for a purchase
Example:
trade in an old car for a new one
Synonyms:
trade; trade in
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "trade in" is one way to...):
change; exchange; interchange (give to, and receive from, one another)
Domain category:
commerce; commercialism; mercantilism (transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services))
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "trade in"):
barter away (trade in in a bartering transaction)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP
Derivation:
trade-in (an item of property that is given in part payment for a new one)
