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TRADING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Buying or selling securities or commodities
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("trading" is a kind of...):
commerce; commercialism; mercantilism (transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "trading"):
bond-trading activity; bond trading (trading in bonds (usually by a broker on the floor of an exchange))
program trading (a trading technique involving large blocks of stock with trades triggered by computer programs)
short sale; short selling (sale of securities or commodity futures not owned by the seller (who hopes to buy them back later at a lower price))
short covering (the purchase of securities or commodities by a short seller to close out a short sale)
insider trading (buying or selling corporate stock by a corporate officer or other insider on the basis of information that has not been made public and is supposed to remain confidential)
Derivation:
trade (do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb trade
Context examples:
To this I added another petition, that for the sake of my patron the king of Luggnagg, his majesty would condescend to excuse my performing the ceremony imposed on my countrymen, of trampling upon the crucifix: because I had been thrown into his kingdom by my misfortunes, without any intention of trading.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Though January had already come, months would have to elapse before any trading schooner was even likely to put into the bay.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
He had grown rich with his trading and stood in need of nothing.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Fashions changed in trading, and he knew he would have to wait till he reached Tahiti before ordering his trade-goods.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
With good-fortune Jupiter in your home sector this year trading golden beams with Neptune in your projects house, I feel you might be especially excited about a project that involves the décor of your home—and your result is likely to be stunning.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
"There was rumor that they went to the South Seas—were lost on a trading schooner in a typhoon, or something like that."
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
And there were the low Paumotus, and the high Marquesas; he saw himself often, now, on board trading schooners or frail little cutters, slipping out at dawn through the reef at Papeete and beginning the long beat through the pearl-atolls to Nukahiva and the Bay of Taiohae, where Tamari, he knew, would kill a pig in honor of his coming, and where Tamari's flower-garlanded daughters would seize his hands and with song and laughter garland him with flowers.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Edith sent Hans to their cabins to get them to take Dennin down the coast in a canoe to the nearest white settlement or trading post, but the errand was fruitless.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
He would be away, in the South Seas, building his grass house, trading for pearls and copra, jumping reefs in frail outriggers, catching sharks and bonitas, hunting wild goats among the cliffs of the valley that lay next to the valley of Taiohae.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Sometimes, at the trading posts, the man and woman get letters. I do not know what is in the letters. But it is the scent that they follow, these letters themselves are the scent.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
